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title: "EP #254 Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos"
description: The mates welcome Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott to discuss Google’s blowout AI-driven earnings, White House model vetting, Pentagon deals with frontier labs, compute scarcity, the rise of private-equity-led enterprise AI, ocean and space data centers, OpenAI’s changing cloud strategy and delayed IPO talk, AGI definitions, AI risk/insurance, and the growing role of AI in GDP and infrastructure.
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# [EP #254 Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos](https://www.diamandis.com/podcast/google-record-quarter-gpt-5-5-white-house)

 Written by [Peter H. Diamandis](https://www.diamandis.com/podcast/author/peter-h-diamandis) | May 9, 2025 7:00:00 AM

In this episode, the mates welcome Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott to discuss Google’s blowout AI-driven earnings, White House model vetting, Pentagon deals with frontier labs, compute scarcity, the rise of private-equity-led enterprise AI, ocean and space data centers, OpenAI’s changing cloud strategy and delayed IPO talk, AGI definitions, AI risk/insurance, and the growing role of AI in GDP and infrastructure.

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