This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room \u2014 Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei among them \u2014 to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called \u201cmorally binding.\u201d Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as \u201csuper intelligence,\u201d and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money in AI still appears to be coming from the enterprise. <\/p>\n
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane dig into this week\u2019s AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the shifting IPO market and a handful of startup deals. <\/p>\n
If you enjoy our show, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where Equity will kick things off with a live episode on the Builders Stage at 9 a.m. <\/p>\n
Get 25% off your tickets with code Equity25 at TechCrunch.com\/events.<\/p>\n
Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You can also follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. <\/p>\n
Chapters:<\/p>\n
00:00 Intro <\/p>\n
0:53 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 <\/p>\n
3:11 Trump, AI CEOs, and the era of \u201csuper intelligence\u201d <\/p>\n
11:09 Consumer AI gets a friendlier face with Muse and Dots <\/p>\n
18:53 What Anthropic\u2019s IPO plans say about the market <\/p>\n
26:12 Quartermaster raises $140M to track what\u2019s happening at sea <\/p>\n
30:26 Ex-Tesla supply chain team builds Atomic <\/p>\n
33:54 Charter Space brings insurance to the stars <\/p>\n
36:02 Outro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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