US Government Blocks GPT-5.6, Alibaba’s AI Theft, and Why OpenAI Is Stalling Their IPO | #267

This episode is mainly about the U.S. government putting frontier AI behind a gate, China’s accelerating open-weight and distillation pressure, and a new push into quantum and photonic computing.

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Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified

Chapters:

0:00 – AI Release Controls Begin
12:45 – The Frontier Model Bottleneck
25:30 – Why Harnesses Matter
38:15 – The U.S.–China AI Split
50:50 – AI Goes on Cyber Defense
1:03:35 – OpenAI’s IPO Problem
1:16:20 – Sleep, Wakefulness, and Musk’s Future
1:29:05 – Video AI and Hollywood’s Disruption
1:41:50 – Distillation, IP, and Quantum
1:54:35 – UBI, Moon Data Centers, and the Posthuman Era

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*Recorded on June 27th, 2026
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