Kara Swisher — "I'd rather have Ted Cruz make decisions about AI"

Kara Swisher has spent decades as the most feared journalist in Silicon Valley. She predicted the January 6th insurrection in 2019. She called out Zuckerberg on hate speech years before it became a mainstream conversation. She warned about techs drift toward right wing politics before anyone wanted to hear it. And she has been right about most of it.Eric sat down with Kara Swisher — CNN Contributor, Author, Podcast Host — to talk about Sam Altman and whether she was too close to him during the OpenAI board crisis, why she thinks Silicon Valley has become addicted to playing the victim, her take on Elon Musk, Mark Andreessen and Peter Thiel, why she would rather have Ted Cruz making decisions about AI than the tech industry itself, and what she thinks is coming next.One of the most honest and unfiltered conversations on this channel.

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Kara Swisher — "I'd rather have Ted Cruz make decisions about AI" is an episode from Dead Cat by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co.

This episode is 00:52:18 long.

This episode was published on Apr 14, 2026.

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