Anthropic wants to slow AI down and Bernie wants 50%: JCal Reacts | E2297

**Lon Harris** (0:00)
Anthropic, they want to slow down global AI development. What?

**Jason Calacanis** (0:04)
Wait a second. Why are they doing this now? Didn't we just all go through this, that they withheld mythos, they're acting responsible? Now they're calling for a global pause?

**Lon Harris** (0:14)
Shut down Claude then if it's too dangerous. If not, what are you doing? You're the ones behind all of this development.

**Jason Calacanis** (0:20)
Bernie Sanders released a video. This is a completely insane, deranged concept. He wants to seize 50% of the shares of the AI companies. 2028, the number one issue in the election, not going to be inflation, it's not going to be wars. It's going to be AI.

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**Jason Calacanis** (1:25)
All right, everybody, welcome back to Twist. It is June 5th, Friday, 2026 with me again, the Lon Harris. How are you doing, brother?

**Lon Harris** (1:34)
Hey, I'm all right. I'm doing okay. I looked a little banged up this week because I got a new dog and she clawed my face, but I'm feeling all right.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:41)
We'll talk about it in Off Duty.

**Lon Harris** (1:43)
We will.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:43)
We'll also talk about the Knickerbockers.

**Lon Harris** (1:45)
The New York Knickerbockers, yeah.

**Jason Calacanis** (1:47)
And my experience at Game 1 here in San Antonio.
So, but let's get started. There's a lot in the news. We hate to, you know, too much small talk at the beginning. We put that at the back like a mullet. Business in the front, party in the back. Let's get started. Lonnie Donnie.

**Lon Harris** (2:03)
I think before we go any further, I think we should applaud our friends at Plaud and point out we're both wearing our Plaud pins right here. I've got mine. You've got yours. A million uses for these Plaud pins. That's what you discover new ones all the time while you're wearing them. Like I just, I adopted a dog named Barry this week and the whole time that I was talking to her previous foster mom about what she likes and everything, I recorded the whole thing with my Plaud and then on the way driving home with her, I jotted down some more notes, I captured some more thoughts, so now I had a whole Barry adoption action plan written up by Plaud just because I was recording it the whole time.

**Jason Calacanis** (2:43)
I didn't even think about that. You go to see your doctor, you see a vet, you're doing something important, trusting human memory, not a good idea. Trusting human judgment, great idea. This is augmenting human intelligence. I found a new use this week for my Plaud. I had it on my wrist today. I'm wearing it on my shirt here. I had my Plaud pin.
You can also get the one that goes in the back of your phone. I was at the liquidity conference and I just left it on for all the program.

**Lon Harris** (3:09)
Wow, yeah.

**Jason Calacanis** (3:09)
Now, after doing four hours of content, I have the entire live straight feed in my phone available to me. What they did at the conference was a very unique thing.
It turns out Plaud had such a good experience at This Week in Startups, that they went and did a partnership with All In. The liquidity conference was our LP conferences week.
They recorded the conference. Then every night, they sent out the same link that you and I would use when we're sharing Plaud conversations that have been recorded, mind mapped, summarized, action items, all that stuff. They sent it out to the 550, 650 people there. Yeah, it's amazing. It was a group Plaud. Once again, we applaud Plaud. I met the founder. He's awesome. Millions of users using this. It is a tremendous life changing product. Give them the code.

**Lon Harris** (3:58)
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