AI Stocks Tumble, Frontier Lab CEOs Call for AI Slowdown, and Ellison Pulls the Plug on 50M ORCL Sale Amid Layoffs

September 14
1h 8m

Episode Description

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we look at the winners – and mostly losers – from today’s AI stock sell off as the market reacts to top AI lab CEOs calling for a slowdown to the pace of frontier lab development. On that note, we unpack why Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling to “pace the frontier,” what that actually means, and the reaction from other leading CEOs and President Trump. We also cover why Oracle Executive Director Larry Ellison is pulling the plug on a sale of 50 million ORCL shares, and we interview Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel on the recent melt-up of U.S. Treasury yields and the changes to the CLARITY Act as the bill advances toward a procedural vote in the Senate this weel.

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