Equity breaks down the Pentagon’s split with Anthropic over AI control, OpenAI’s role in defense tech, and the week’s biggest startup and tech headlines.
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Equity breaks down the Pentagon’s split with Anthropic over AI control, OpenAI’s role in defense tech, and the week’s biggest startup and tech headlines.
PopSockets founder and former CEO David Barnett tell Equity how he scaled the consumer hardware brand, their $10–20M Amazon fight, and why he stepped down as CEO.
Alex Bores joins the Equity podcast to discuss the RAISE Act, the super PAC battle shaping AI policy, and what real AI regulation in the U.S. could look like.
Token Relations CEO Jacquelyn Melinek joins Equity to make sense of how the market has changed and what in the world of crypto is built to last.
Equity unpacks how creators are diversifying beyond ads, whether their model can scale beyond the top 1%, everything happing at India's AI Impact Summit, and more of the week's headlines.
Google Cloud’s vice president of global startups, Darren Mowry, joins Equity to discuss how Google Cloud is competing for AI startups, and what founders should be thinking about as they scale.
Equity is digging into the week's biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies like xAI and OpenAI.
Glean CEO and founder Arvind Jain joins Equity to break down how enterprises are thinking about AI architecture, what's driving consolidation, and what's real versus hype in the agent space.
Flapping Airplanes' founders join Equity to discuss why investors wrote the lab a $180M check, what the "neolabs" generation means for AI development, and more.
Elon Musk is building something bigger than a single company. Equity breaks down the SpaceX and xAI merger, the rise of the personal conglomerate, Waymo’s $16B raise, AI chip wars, and more.
The Equity podcast crew rolls through Uber's AV partnership strategy, why Waabi's "simulation-first" approach might be different, IPO news, and more.
Equity unpacks why SpaceX's IPO feels different, how secondary markets are heating up, and what investors are actually looking for in pre-IPO shares.
Tech CEOs dominated Davos while AI startups raise hundreds of millions on mission statements alone. Equity breaks it all down on today's episode.
Equity digs into why Anthropic, OpenAI, and the rest of the AI world is suddenly obsessed with healthcare, and more of the week's headlines.
What are enterprises really worried about with AI? WitnessAI and Ballistic Ventures join Equity to break down the rise of AI security, a potential $1T market, and the risks of autonomous AI agents.
AI left the screen at CES 2026. The Equity podcast team unpacks humanoid robots, physical AI, big deals, and the week’s biggest tech news.
AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don't know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer.
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody discusses how his startup became a $10B middleman in AI’s data gold rush, on the Equity podcast.
Fizz founder Teddy Solomon joins the Equity podcast to explain why Gen Z is done performing online and how his app took over college campuses.
The Equity podcast crew breaks down what actually happened in tech in 2025, and what AI, startups, and VCs should expect in 2026.
The Equity podcast crew digs into how Akara uses AI and thermal sensors to fix one of hospitals’ most expensive bottlenecks: OR coordination.
iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes were very different companies, but they faced some similar challenges.
What went wrong for three once-promising hardware companies? Equity is discussing the latest wave of bankruptcies, plus Amazon's massive OpenAI bet and Trump's new approach to AI regulation.
Jiten Behl joins Equity to talk Rivian spinouts, what founders in the "physical world" need that software founders don't, and why automation is becoming necessary.
Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec and Anthony Ha discuss what happens when the startup that used to mail you DVDs grows up and tries to buy a legacy entertainment empire as well as the other headlines that caught their eye.
ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski admits he thinks voice models will be commoditized in just a couple of years. So what's ElevenLabs' plan when everyone else catches up?
The latest episode of Equity digs into the ROI on AI agents and why everyone wants their own version of Spotify Wrapped.
Day One's Masha Bucher joines Equity to unpack why traditional PR is broken, how she picks founders, and why every startup founder now needs to be chronically online.
Supabase's co-founder and CEO joins Equity to discuss the startup's rise and what it means for vibe coding, developers and the database giants who have historically controlled this market.
