This week, the White House gathered nearly every major tech CEO in a room, including Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” President Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “superintelligence,” while Meta and OpenAI lend familiarity to their AI products, even though the biggest funding in the field still appears to come from corporations.
In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into this week’s AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the changing IPO market and some startup deals.
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