Interesting theory from Chamath that Stripe will go after visa/mastercard with acquisition of PayPal.
PayPal has over 400m consumer accounts and if Stripe gets e2e control, this could be huge for stablecoin adoption.
🚨 POD UP! The Core Four is BACK
The Besties discuss:
-- Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself?
-- Stripe Bids $53B for PayPal w/ Block and Advent ($PYPL)
-- The Death of Tokenmaxxing?
-- Apple Sues OpenAI ($AAPL)
-- Grok Build Data Leak ($SPCX)
-- The Datacenter Psyop, NY's Ban
-- Science Corner: Aging Reversal Breakthrough?
(0:00) Bestie intros!
(1:32) New AI regulatory proposal: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis proposes FINRA-type body
(20:01) Stripe, Block, and Advent offer $53B to acquire PayPal
(37:51) Apple sues OpenAI, alleging stolen trade secrets
(42:49) Grok Build data leak, AI data privacy, Tokenmaxxing update, Mira Murati's new model
(59:53) NY bans datacenters, China catches up
(1:22:57) Science Corner: New data on reversing aging!