AI in Warfare, OpenClaw & The Stargate Mega-Campus | This Week in AI E3

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and advancements in AI infrastructure and its implications in warfare with insights from three industry founders.

This week we sit down with three founders building at the frontier of AI infrastructure, evaluation, and hardware: Chase Lochmiller (Crusoe), Naveen Rao (Unconventional AI), and Anastasios Angelopoulos (Arena). We dig into the real bottlenecks slowing down the AI buildout, how to standout in the job market as AI matures, and the explosive government standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon. We explore how AI infrastructure, open source models, and policy are reshaping the industry from the ground up. The Anthropic-Pentagon Standoff: The U.S. government blacklisted a leading domestic AI company for the first time. Who sets the rules for AI in warfare? Jevons Paradox & AI: Every efficiency gain in intelligence-per-watt creates more demand, not less. AI infra is positioned to capture the largest market humanity has ever built. OpenClaw & Open Source Mania: The open-source AI agent that just became GitHub's most-starred project. It now runs locally on your phone. Should You Learn to Code?: Yes, but not as a trade skill. Bootcamp-style training is dead. Understanding how machines work is what separates leaders from everyone else. Rethinking the Computer from Scratch…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Calacanis

Guests: Chase Lochmiller, Naveen Rao, Anastasios Angelopoulos

Topics covered

• AI infrastructure
• AI in warfare
• government policy
• open source AI
• job market in AI
• efficiency in AI

Keywords

• AI infrastructure
• government standoff
• open source models
• job market
• efficiency gains
• labor crisis
• digital labor

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Pentagon, Crusoe, Unconventional AI, Arena

Products: OpenClaw

Places: U.S.

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