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That Was The Week

That Was The Week is an editorialized and curated weekly look at developments in tech, startups, and venture investing with a video and podcast for paid subscribers. All free subscribers get a 6-month complementary paid subscription. www.thatwastheweek.com

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41:13

Who Gets to Tell the AI Story?

That Was The Week ·

2026/04/04

Three narrative engines are competing to define what AI means: the doom industry (selling fear), the corporate machine (selling story), and the financial machine (selling access). All three assume ordinary people need mediators to understand AI. All are driven by financial or political incentives. But the actual evidence from this week — chatbots that moderate rather than radicalize, a smartphone panic that collapses on cross-cultural data, real security risks that are concrete and addressable —

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33:30

Growing Up?

That Was The Week ·

2026/03/28

Growing Up? Winning Wars Involves Losing Battles.Anthropic won a First Amendment ruling against the Pentagon. OpenAI killed Sora. One insisted on principle. The other chose discipline.Meanwhile: software trades below the S&P 500 for the first time ever, Jensen pitched a trillion-dollar token factory, and David Sacks left the building.Intelligence is getting cheaper. The question is who earns trust while it happens.This week's That Was The Week: https://thatwastheweek.com This is a public episode. If

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41:28

Public Markets Price Outcomes

That Was The Week ·

2026/03/20

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39:22

AI: Loved And Hated - Which Is It to Be?

That Was The Week ·

2026/03/14

Adopted Yet Hated - Which Is It to Be?That Was The Week #8 | March 7-13, 2026900 million users. 10,000 empty pages. The gap between them won't be closed by better arguments.This Week's ThesisNine hundred million people used ChatGPT last week. Ten thousand authors published an empty book to protest it. Both numbers are real. The editorial argues the gap between AI adoption and AI hostility isn't about technology - it's about who benefits. Trust can't be delegated to policy. It has to be learned

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2:43

That Was The Week - Apple TV App

That Was The Week ·

2026/03/14

Apple TV App for That Was The Week This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

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42:39

Missing in Action - Real Leadership

That Was The Week ·

2026/03/07

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40:04

Anthropic is Wrong

That Was The Week ·

2026/02/28

Who Decides AI Use Policy? Companies or Governments? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

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37:31

Public Venture Capital - Democratization or Scam?

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2026/02/21

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36:38

Anthropics Super Bowl Ad is dishonest

That Was The Week ·

2026/02/07

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39:46

Growing Up?

That Was The Week ·

2026/01/31

Dario Amodei warns that AI is in its adolescence, racing toward a "country of geniuses." But look closer at the market this week. OpenAI is seeking a $750B+ valuation while shoving intent-style ads into chatbots This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

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34:34

Whither Europe?

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2026/01/26

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41:43

2025 And All That: The Path to Abundance

That Was The Week ·

2025/12/19

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36:43

Human¹⁰⁰

That Was The Week ·

2025/12/13

Human¹⁰⁰: Why This Week Proves AI Is Our Greatest Invention, Not Our ReplacementThis editorial argues that artificial intelligence is best understood as a powerful human multiplier, not a substitute for human labor or creativity. Drawing on recent productivity data, AI is already saving the average white-collar worker nearly an hour a day—worth more than $7,000 annually per employee—yet current AI pricing captures only a small fraction of that value. The result is a widening “AI value gap” that will

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41:02

Winner Takes it All? Or, The Great Compression

That Was The Week ·

2025/12/07

Is the chaos in the market actually a rational response to a new innovation curve? This week, we explore The Great Compression—a phenomenon collapsing the distance between venture capital stages, career ladders, and the way we access reality.We analyze why "$2 billion seed rounds" and the death of the billable hour aren't signs of a bubble, but symptoms of a "Winner Takes Most" AI curve. In this industrial-scale race, the system is squeezing resources into a "barbell distribution," forcing a choice

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39:30

The Year of Intelligence

That Was The Week ·

2025/11/29

The week ending November 30, 2025, was characterized as a "wacky races kind of week," with constant shifts in the perceived leadership of the AI sector. Google was highlighted as the biggest weekly winner, seeing a rise in stock, positive reviews for Gemini, and developing its own chip that critics suggest has pierced NVIDIA's "aura of invulnerability". Other models, including Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and ChatGPT 5.1 Codex-Max, were also noted as big deals in the accelerating innovation cycle

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45:04

AI, Agents & the New Age of Progress: Work, Poverty &...

That Was The Week ·

2025/11/23

AI isn’t breaking the web or destroying jobs—it’s ushering in a new Age of Progress. Intelligent agents, robotics, and abundant compute are pushing us toward optional work, collapsing labor costs and reshaping the economics of wealth. The real challenge: whether society can build the policies and systems to distribute the coming abundance. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

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45:48

The Manufactured Moral Panic Against AI

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2025/11/15

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38:16

Is China the New America?

That Was The Week ·

2025/11/08

SEO Summary: An in-depth editorial exploring China’s rise in AI and GDP share, historical parallels to U.S. industrial dominance, and how cooperation—not rivalry—will define the next century of technological progress. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thatwastheweek.com/subscribe

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5:52

Can OpenAI Shape Our Future?

That Was The Week ·

2025/11/01

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39:50

What is a Browser? What is a Bubble?

That Was The Week ·

2025/10/25

What Is a Browser? What Is a Bubble? ChatGPT Has an AnswerMeta Description:OpenAI’s Atlas redefines the web browser as an AI-powered action layer, sparking debate over the future of the open web, advertising, and infrastructure investment. “That Was The Week” explores the shift from navigation to delegation.Summary:The latest issue of That Was The Week (#38, 2025) dives into how OpenAI’s Atlas browser transforms the web from a map of links into an intelligent agent-driven experience. Instead of

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