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New Apple Products, Anthropic's Strategy, Why AI Costs Don’t Hurt Apple | Dean Ball, Scott Kupor & Jared Isaacman, Adam Bry, Matteo Franceschetti, Dillon Rolnick

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Mar 4, 2026
Adam Bry, Skydio CEO — leads U.S. drone maker on autonomy, public-safety drones, and scaling factories. Jared Isaacman, entrepreneur and commercial astronaut — talks space policy, NASA collaboration, and private missions. Scott Kupor, a16z managing partner — discusses venture and industry roles in space. Dean Ball, former White House AI adviser — explores balanced AI regulation, oversight design, and national-security risks.
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How Apple Sidestepped Ramageddon

  • Apple dodged the 2025–26 DRAM price shock via long-term contracts, vertical integration, and high margin RAM upsells.
  • Coogan cites 12–24 month memory supply agreements, custom LPDDR packages, and charging $200 for upgrades that cost ~$30–$60.
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Technocratic Oversight Beats Nationalization

  • Ball favors a hybrid oversight model: private labs remain independent but face entity-level technocratic regulation similar to financial oversight.
  • He warns that government ownership risks tyranny and reduces foreign trust in US AI companies.
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Private Labs Preserve International Trust

  • Ball stresses sovereignty and trust: US labs must stay private to win global customers who fear military control of American firms.
  • He recommends open-source infrastructure and compute-sharing to give sovereign options without nationalizing labs.
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