David Sacks

People always ask me, “how can we fix LA? We don’t have the money!” We have the money…it’s just being stolen! You wanna fix the budget? END THE FRAUD. I will bust the scammers and put your tax dollars back to work for YOU.

President Trump understands that unnecessary regulation is the biggest threat to innovation in America. Winning the AI race means not only beating China but also clearing bureaucratic hurdles thrown up by state legislatures and woke politicians in DC. No one is better positioned to support PCAST in this mission and to advise the President on legal and regulatory barriers than @PamBondi. Excited to have her on board!

The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984? This is the real alignment problem. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians? “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.

Full article: nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opi…

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David Sacks: "California collects roughly double per capita what Texas and Florida do… And services got worse, test scores got worse, crime prevention got worse, they let convicts out of jails. Everything's gotten worse."

UPDATE: The trend line is even stronger. Both software job postings and AI-generated code continue to grow by the week.

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding? A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating. AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases. We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy. Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

@grok fact-check this

ALL-IN POD IS LIVE! 🚨 Massive show Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) subs in for Sacks to talk: -- Andrej Karpathy Joining Anthropic: Impact on the AI Race? -- SpaceX S-1 Breakdown: The $2T Case, Elon Web Services, Datacenters in Space -- Nvidia’s Big Beat and Shock Selloff -- Why America Has Turned on AI -- Trump Pulls AI Order -- Market Update: Inflation, Bond Crisis? -- Did the US-China Summit Flop? (0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show! (0:30) Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic; hypergrowth and profitability (12:42) Why Americans have turned on AI, anti-human perception (27:22) Trump pulls AI EO, US-China AI relationship, dystopian AI layoffs (45:19) SpaceX S-1 tear down! Three major businesses and the case for $2T (1:11:22) Nvidia smashes earnings but stock falls, why people are shorting chips (1:22:25) Market update: Flashing red signals, oil, inflation, yields up (1:32:45) China trip flops, or was progress made behind the scenes?

@JasonMiller @sriramk @skrishnan47 @POTUS @realDonaldTrump Well deserved!

Very cool to see my good friend @SriramK @SKrishnan47 get a well deserved shout-out from @POTUS @realDonaldTrump today! 🇺🇸 Great job, Sriram!

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@McBrideLawNYC I tend to agree.

@DavidSacks AP committed brand suicide.

Was thinking about getting a $40k Royal Oak. Will get this for $400 instead. 99% savings — thanks AP!

@Cernovich I hope that’s true.

@DavidSacks Superfakes are so good now that even watch makers struggle to tell the difference. The only true status marker today is whether you can openly be right wing. Not straddle the line. But be real right wing.

🚨 POD UP! HAPPY FRIDAY! Bestie Guestie Marc Benioff (@Benioff) fills in for Sacks A LOT covered on this one: -- Trump-Xi Summit: Trade, Taiwan, midterms impact -- AI's impact on software: What thrives and what dies? -- OpenAI could sue Apple over failed ChatGPT integration -- Thinking Machines drops new model, future of AI is multi-sensory -- BIG Science Corner on a potentially devastating El Nino (0:00) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joins the show! (1:14) Trump-Xi summit, doing business in China as a US company, impact on Americans and the midterms (18:46) Taiwan, chips, AI models, and peace through trade (31:41) AI's impact on software: What SaaS thrives, what SaaS dies? (47:26) OpenAI is considering suing Apple over failed ChatGPT integration (56:54) Thinking Machines releases real-time model, future of consumer AI, multi-sensory models (1:02:24) Science Corner: Impacts of a historically strong El Nino in 2026 (1:11:40) Anthropic goes after "Dark SPVs"

UPDATE: the Clarity Act has passed out of the Senate Banking Committee. Congrats to Chairman @SenatorTimScott @SenLummis @BernieMoreno and their staffs on a job well done. Thank you also to @SenThomTillis for his efforts to ensure that today’s vote was bipartisan.

Tomorrow’s markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act is a monumental step in making the U.S. the Crypto Capital of the World and maintaining America’s leadership in innovation. I applaud Chairman @SenatorTimScott and the Senate Banking Committee for working so hard to craft the necessary compromises to advance this legislation. At a staff level, I also want to thank White House crypto director @patrickjwitt for helping us get to this point. Finally I want to thank the crypto industry for its efforts. There are roughly 50 million people in the U.S. who own or use crypto. This legislation will ensure that this ecosystem can innovate and flourish for years to come.

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