Democrats take Congress, Texas flips, and the Trump-era “terrarium” that media, finance and tech climbed into starts to crack.
Winners: the AI decels, after voters rejected data centers in state after state, and media, which took in a flood of political ad money.
Losers: the tech right, Elon Musk and his half billion in spending, Andreessen Horowitz, the manosphere and prediction markets.
Then they get into why AI agents feel too proactive and too clunky, and Anthony DeRosa joins to talk about the PvA Field Notes Media Lab, his Frontier AI tracker, and his election night test pitting prediction markets and personal agents against the news desks calling races.
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Chapters:
02:26 Paris Reality Check
07:35 Midterms Winners and Losers
31:14 AI Agents and Media Lab
39:59 Dashboards And Agents
42:26 Frontier And Election Tools
50:04 Monetizing Media Beyond Ads
01:05:55 AI Adoption
01:17:25 Good Product
01:22:46 Credits
