It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into this week’s AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the shifting IPO market and a handful of startup deals. And speaking of startups, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where Equity will kick things off with a live show on the Builders Stage at 9 a.m. You can also follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.
- ▪On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into this week’s AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the shifting IPO market and a handful of startup deals.
- ▪And speaking of startups, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where Equity will kick things off with a live show on the Builders Stage at 9 a.m.
- ▪You can also follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.
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Loading the player… var playerInstance_31733141 = jwplayer( "jwppp-video-31733141" ); playerInstance_31733141.setup({ playlist: "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/j9jJ5spX", }) This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money in AI still appears to be coming from the enterprise.
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