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TBPN · Aug 6, 2026
SpaceX SPV Gone Wrong, Intel's Comeback, Dylan Field Joins | Aditya Agarwal, Ariane Gorin, Nick Thompson, Chris Power, Christian Mochen
“CEO Chris Power announced $1.37B raise; discussed factory-as-a-service model serving defense primes and expanding to Alabama and San Francisco.”
OpenAI AI agent sandbox escape and autonomous coordination behaviorIntel foundry turnaround and US government equity stakeSpaceX pre-IPO SPV fraud and lockup schedule
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Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist · May 8, 2026
Ep 153: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Heretics, AI Weapons, and Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy
“New entrant manufacturing company Sankar is excited about for scaling defense production with modern processes and capital investment”
Defense Industrial Base Capacity and ScalingForward-Deployed Engineers and Customer-Centric Product DevelopmentHistorical Defense Innovation and Organizational Heretics
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The a16z Show · Mar 25, 2026
Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing
“Advanced manufacturing company building 2.25M sq ft facility for submarine component production”
Submarine manufacturing capacity shortageDefense industrial base rebuildingSoftware-driven manufacturing
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Tech Turns to Mining, Meta VR Layoffs, Thinking Machines Shakeup | Matthew Prince, Chirantan Desai, Delian Asparouhov, Deepak Pathak, David Tearse, Blake Resnick
AI Infrastructure and Data CentersLithium Refining and Battery Supply ChainCopper Mining for Data Centers
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