Leo Schwartz

A former top AI advisor to President Trump is raising a giant venture fund.

That is according to exclusive reporting from The Information, and I wanna bring on Leo Schwartz, our AI and politics reporter, who broke that story, for more on that scoop.

Leo, welcome back to the show.

It's great to have you here.

Uh, it was some great reporting.

Leo, I wanna thank you for coming on.

That is Leo Schwartz, our tech and politics reporter here at The Information.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday all brought big model releases.

He also named FTC chair Andrew Ferguson to vice chair his AI task force, along with Emil Michael and Scott Cooper, who have existing government positions and deep roots in Silicon Valley.

I wanna bring on Leo Schwartz for his thoughts on the new appointments.

Leo, welcome to the show.

It's great to have you back.

Great.

Well, Leo, I wanna thank you for coming on.

That is Leo Schwartz, our tech and politics reporter from New York City, City Hall here on TI TV.

A little over a week ago, Jensen Huang's daughter, Madison Huang, got married in Hawaii.

The information has exclusive reporting that Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body all by themselves.

Stephanie Palazzolo and Leo Schwartz reported that story.

I wanna bring on the two of them for more details on what they found.

Welcome to the both of you.

Well, maybe Leo, that was exactly the topic of conversation at the big dinner that happened last night [laughs] with all of these leaders, uh, and, uh, President Xi, President Trump.

Uh, we are gonna talk a little bit more about that later on in the show, but I wanna thank you both for coming on.

That is Stephanie Palazzolo, our AI reporter, and Leo Schwartz, covering all things AI tech and politics here at The Information.

Anthropic's co-founders want to make sure that they have voting control ahead of their IPO.

Today on the show, we have some big developments on the US-China AI dialogue.

Our tech and politics reporter, Leo Schwartz, spoke with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directly about it.

We'll have more on that in just a minute.

We'll then get to a conversation that I had with Vinod Khosla.

It's gonna be a great show, so let's get right on into it.

President Trump is set to meet with China President Xi Jinping this week, and talks between top government officials already started over the weekend in New York.

The Information's tech and politics r-reporter, Leo Schwartz, spoke with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last night.

I want to bring on Leo to share more about that conversation.

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis all largely agreed with him.

Of course, it is important in these moments to talk not just about what leaders are saying, but also what they are doing behind the scenes, and that is why new exclusive reporting from our tech and politics reporter, Leo Schwartz, is so important right now in this moment.

Leo caught wind of some of the conversations that are happening behind closed doors, and I wanna bring on Leo to share more about what he found.

Leo, what a weekend.

Well, Leo, I wanna thank you for coming on.

I know it was a busy weekend for you, so we'll let you get back to it.

That is Leo Schwartz, our tech and politics reporter here at the Information.

The Nasdaq was down this morning, but surprisingly, software stocks like Salesforce and ServiceNow and Workday were all up this morning.