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01:04:36

2025 superlatives: Nvidia and Groq’s $20B deal, the...

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2025/12/31

In the final episode of the year, the pod gives out superlatives:Most likely to dupe the FTCMoment of the yearMost questionable purchase of the yearBiggest startup product letdownThey kick things off by debriefing the Somali-run fraud scandals in Minnesota (Anika’s home state), then dive into their superlatives.They pick Nvidia and Groq’s $20B licensing deal as Most Likely to Dupe the FTC. Groq, last valued around $7B just months ago, is known for building Language Processing Units (LPUs) — chips

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00:52:50

Open AI v Google, Fed cutes Rates, AV update

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2025/12/17

In this episode of Get the Check, Anika and Priya debrief booking a flight 2 hours before it left to surprise their college friend for his birthday. Once they settle in, they break down power struggles across AI, the economy, and autonomous vehicles.They start with OpenAI’s internal code red after Google’s Gemini 3 launch began cutting into ChatGPT market share. The hosts explain why this moment actually matters. OpenAI’s daily visits fell about 6% and user growth slowed for multiple months in a

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00:54:51

Netflix’s $82B bid for Warner Bros, Harvey AI’s third...

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2025/12/10

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod covers one of the largest deals of the year: Netflix’s $82B bid for Warner Brothers. Also, Harvey AI’s third raise this year for a total of $760M at an $8B valuation, and why Meta is making cuts to Reality Labs.Netflix’s $82B bid to acquire Warner Brothers gives it access to some of the best IP in the world like Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. The hosts break down how Netflix would inherit 117M global subscribers, a century of IP, and about $30B in Warner

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01:01:17

Google's Gemini 3, Suno AI music, Nucleus Genomics

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2025/12/03

In this episode of Get the Check the pod returns from Thanksgiving break and their podcast offsite. They debrief the Gemini 3 model drop, AI music start up Suno, and Nucleus Genomics’ current controversies.They start with Gemini 3 and how Google has been able to catch up in the AI race by proving they don’t need Nvidia GPUs to create a state of the art model. TPUs deliver significantly more performance per watt which becomes a huge deal when you are spending billions on training cycles. A big part

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00:48:40

How to get a job in one month and other early career...

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2025/11/26

In this episode, the pod takes a break from analyzing tech and instead analyzes themselves. Anika, Priya, and Maya sit in Priya’s childhood home during Thanksgiving break and walk through their early career paths, their recruiting wins and disasters, and the moments that made them question everything, including the time Anika almost peed her pants at her first job?!Maya breaks down how she landed seven job offers in one month and explains the actual playbook behind getting first rounds at startups

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01:00:12

Inside Greptile: Co-founder Daksh on building code...

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2025/11/19

In this episode, we sit down with Daksh, the CEO and co-founder of Greptile: the AI code-review agent used by thousands of engineering teams and backed by Benchmark. If you don’t know him from Greptile, you probably know him from his viral quote on SF culture that talked about 996, steak and eggs, and marrying early.Daksh tells us how he went from high school musical theater and almost joining a band full-time to discovering early GPT models before anyone else cared, meeting his co-founder through

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01:04:17

Google’s Project Suncatcher, new AI model releases,...

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2025/11/12

This week's episode is brought to you by Kalshi :) trade on anything! Receive a bonus after trading 100 contracts: https://kalshi.com/r/getthecheck In this episode of Get the Check, Maya, Anika, and Priya break down the biggest stories in AI this week, from Google’s latest moonshot to the rise of AI-generated music.They start with Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to move AI data centers into space and harness the power of the sun. The hosts explain why Google is doing this, how it fits into the

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00:58:46

Inside the CA-11 race: Saikat Chakrabarti on...

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2025/11/05

This week the hosts sit down with Saikat Chakrabarti, who was Stripe’s second engineer and later worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign and served as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first Chief of Staff. He is now running for California’s 11th House district, which represents San Francisco, against Nancy Pelosi and Scott Wiener. Pelosi has held this seat for nearly four decades.They talk about why Saikat left tech and how to encourage more young and ambitious people to get involved in politics. Saikat

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01:01:25

Quantum news, David Sacks vs. Anthropic, SB 53 AI...

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2025/10/29

Maya, Priya, and Anika start by unpacking why they need to edit the podcast, while their other podcaster friends just upload the raw file.This week they dive into reports that the Trump administration may (or may not?) take a stake in quantum computing companies. The hosts break down what quantum is and what the important use cases are. They dive into Google’s new “Quantum Echo” breakthrough, which is basically the first time a quantum computer has done something verifiably useful and

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00:50:26

China’s REM export controls, Anduril’s Eagle Eye AI...

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2025/10/22

It’s day 21 of the government shutdown. The pod’s true fans were there when Maya told everyone to put money on the Kalshi 15+ days shutdown market two weeks ago.If you still haven’t made a Kalshi account, you’re probably not a true fan, but on the upside, if you do it now, Kalshi is giving Get the Check listeners $40 after they trade 100 contracts if you use this link:https://kalshi.com/r/getthecheckThe hosts start by talking about China’s new rare earth mineral export controls. They added another

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01:18:05

Figure 03 humanoid launch, Trump's Israel-Hamas...

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2025/10/15

It seems like Anika was waiting for this week’s recording to confront Maya about something she said (or rather didn’t say) in the group chat. Once they get that out of the way, the hosts discuss Figure’s 03 humanoid announcement, the Israel-Palestine deal Trump is brokering, and OpenAI’s Dev Day.Figure 03 is Figure’s latest humanoid and the pod says it would get their check 1000%. The hosts talk about product improvements compared to 02 and how 03 is focusing on a humanoid in the home use case. They

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00:40:51

Government Shutdown, Doordash launches Dot, Thinking...

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2025/10/08

It’s Tech Week and Get the Check’s one-year anniversary! Maya may have never believed in this milestone, but we know you all did. This Tech Week, the pod is co-hosting a DJ set at the Composio office on Sunday morning. Link’s in the bio!The hosts kick it off with DoorDash’s new delivery robot called Dot. It is an in-house autonomous vehicle built by DoorDash Labs that can drive on both roads and sidewalks. They break down how it could automate up to half of DoorDash’s deliveries, why Phoenix is the

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01:08:12

OpenAI’s $1 trillion infra play, OpenAI goes into...

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2025/10/01

The hosts are back and diving into a massive week for OpenAI. They start with Nvidia’s $100B investment, which will fund OpenAI’s GPU purchases, and explain why this circular deal doesn’t necessarily signal an AI bubble. They also break down OpenAI’s trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout and the roles Oracle and CoreWeave are playing.Next, they cover OpenAI’s new product Pulse and the growing rumors about ads. Maya and Anika debate whether Pulse will actually work. Comment whose side you’re on and

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00:59:45

Trump imposes $100k fee for H1-B, Meta releases...

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2025/09/24

This week the hosts are back, recharged after a trip to Thailand. They kick things off by recapping their first-ever female founders + investors dinner and share plans to host more events soon. Follow along on socials at @getthecheckpod to hear about the next event.The podcast dives into Meta Connect and the launch of Meta’s Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band. The glasses let you talk to Meta AI to find a coffee shop, get directions, and text a friend - all without picking up your phone. They also

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00:52:09

Anthropic pays authors $1.5B, Google keeps Chrome, an...

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2025/09/10

This week on Get the Check, the hosts talk about how 1000 gallons of water flooded Maya’s apartment building and how ChatGPT may have saved her $11k.Anthropic just dropped $1.5 billion to settle with the Authors Guild after getting caught training Claude on pirated books from LibGen. The hosts talk about the details of the case and when copyrighted works fall under “fair use” versus not. They also talk about how this impacts other big lawsuits like NYT vs. OpenAI. Finally they speculate why there

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00:54:33

Trump fires Lisa Cook, Open Evidence, and SpaceX's...

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2025/09/03

The hosts start with Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud. They unpack the legal battle around whether a president can remove Fed officials “for cause,” what that means for the Fed’s independence, and the potential implications for monetary policy, markets, and democracy. They draw historical comparisons, from Nixon and stagflation to the UK’s pre-1997 monetary policy, and note Trump’s push for rate cuts to offset tariff-driven inflation.Next, they dive

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01:01:20

AI bubble + 95% of biz have no GenAI returns,...

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2025/08/27

This week the pod dives into the multi-trillion dollar question: is AI a bubble? The hosts break down the history of the dot-com bubble and compare what’s similar and what’s different this time. They also discuss the widely cited MIT study showing that 95 percent of organizations are getting no returns from generative AI, covering which types of implementations are seeing real value and where it actually makes sense for businesses to invest in AI.The conversation then shifts to the latest meetings

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00:36:54

Inside the Viral Subliminal Learning AI Paper with...

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2025/08/20

This week the pod sat down with Minh Le, one of the researchers behind the viral AI safety research study “Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data.”The paper showed that if you have a teacher model with a love for owls that teaches a student model a series of random numbers, the student will also inherit a love for owls as long as they share the same base model, which means models can inherit misaligned traits from other models even if it’s not

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00:47:56

GPT-5, Open weight models, Blade sells passenger...

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2025/08/13

You might remember Maya decided her life had no value after the pod read AI 2027 a couple of months ago, which outlines a doomsday AI scenario where the human race goes extinct.After this week’s OpenAI GPT-5 launch, Maya has hope again. Sam Altman says GPT-5 is as smart as any PhD student, but the pod discusses why many people aren’t buying into the hype, especially since OpenAI’s own announcement had incorrect charts that GPT-5 generated. Although the model is still doing well on benchmarks.The

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00:47:15

Elon's Neuralink clinical trials, Trump beefs with...

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2025/08/06

The year is 2030 your Neuralink chip calls your Tesla back from an EV charging station and your Optimus robot opens the door for you (chivalry isn’t dead).This week the pod does a deep dive into Neuralink's technology and how the device is able to decode your brainwaves and send them to a model, which translates them into actions like playing a video game. Neuralink already allows Noland Arbaugh who is paralyzed from the neck down to operate a computer with his mind. Elon’s long term vision for the

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