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This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO successful 1 country — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to motion an AI information pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI arsenic “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces connected their AI products, adjacent arsenic the biggest wealth successful AI inactive appears to beryllium coming from the enterprise.
On this occurrence of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane excavation into this week’s AI moves, the ugly economics of user AI, positive the shifting IPO marketplace and a fistful of startup deals.
And speaking of startups, articulation america astatine TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, wherever Equity volition footwear things disconnected with a unrecorded amusement connected the Builders Stage astatine 9 a.m. Get 25% disconnected your tickets with codification Equity25.
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Theresa Loconsolo is an audio shaper astatine TechCrunch focusing connected Equity, the network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch successful 2022, she was 1 of 2 producers astatine a four-station conglomerate wherever she wrote, recorded, voiced and edited content, and engineered unrecorded performances and interviews from guests similar lovelytheband. Theresa is based successful New Jersey and holds a bachelors grade successful Communication from Monmouth University.
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