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It's a testament to Apple's monopoly power that Siri is unusable and we all just kind of shrug.

Little known fact: Christina was the first angel check into Replit--$50k on $6m valuation, April 19th 2016. Fun interview--challenging questions!

Congratulations to Abigail Slater and the incredible team of lawyers and support staff at Antitrust Division on this big win! Great to see the courts make clear that “refusal to deal” precedent doesn’t = a blank check for Big Tech gatekeepers to engage in monopolistic conduct👏👏👏

American government has a long bipartisan history of defending competitive markets in America, ensuring all companies - big and small, old and new - can compete on a level playing field. Abusive domestic monopolies only weaken the USA.

Keep skilled immigration legal

I’m out of town. My wife just texted asking how to adjust our daughter’s bicycle seat and I explained as best I could that she needed a hex screw tool. This was her response

it's key for the US to win on open weights/open source models. It's very clear there is a distinct need for this.

Big Tech wants Trump to kill Europe's antitrust law before it really bites. That would be a huge mistake — and betray his own pro-startup agenda. My take in Financial Times on why America shouldn't save Apple and Google from real competition:

Luther Lowe Y Combinator Financial Times EU forcing Apple to open up NFC payments to third parties is a decent example of antitrust done right.

I wonder if these PMs know and hate each other in real life

Bullish signal for DMA?

Fei-Fei Li: Open Source AI Needs To Be Protected⁣ ⁣ "I think open source should be protected. If there is efforts of open source both in public sector as like academia as well as private sector is so important. It's so important for the entrepreneurial ecosystem." — Fei-Fei Li

Still!?

This is one of those lightcone episodes where we will look back at it and go "Oh wow, they said exactly what was going to happen. Why didn't I listen?"

Kash Patel getting into government and finding that there’s no Epstein conspiracy reminds me of this joke

Huge win for US startups 🚀! Section 174 is officially reversed, no more amortizing R&D expenses. Thanks to Garry Tan, Luther Lowe and Y Combinator for championing this fight, your advocacy made it happen!