Amazon

The hosts criticize the difficulty of finding Amazon NBA broadcasts in public venues like bars.

“I don't know, but I'm out on Amazon games.”

Mentioned as having a ceremony spoiled by a reporter.

“... yeah, so he just, Amazon was ready to, to have a big ceremony night, and Shams-”

Employees are using the company's internal AI tools to inflate token usage metrics.

“Fair enough. RIP. Let's see what else [train horn] coming down the tracks. Oh, well, this was interesting, Kevin, and, uh, ties in closely to something that you've written about recently. Amazon has started to widely deploy its in-house Meshclaw product in rec…”

Partnered with Anthropic for Trainium compute capacity.

“We announced a partnership with SpaceX for their Colossus facility in Memphis. Really excited about that. It's gonna allow us to continue to expand, especially on the consumer and prosumer side. But that's just one example of us just, as you said, looking for …”

A provider of Trainium chips and a collaborative partner in influencing chip roadmaps.

“That's part of the journey for sure, but it's also been actually pretty collaborative. So we work really closely with the Annapurna Labs team at Amazon to help to influence the roadmap of these chips because we believe what we're doing is really stressing the …”

A key cloud partner with whom Anthropic collaborates deeply, particularly through Annapurna Labs.

“We're fortunate in that we have really great partners in Amazon, in Google, in Microsoft, but also with Broadcom and Nvidia as well. Our ecosystem, we are the only model that's on all three clouds today. We're the only model that has large language lab that's …”

A strategic partner that has inked a significant capital deal with Anthropic.

“Claude and our Claude platform. When you have this investment that we made and will continue to make in safety, interpretability, alignment, that actually inures to the benefit of the enterprise customers as well and all of our customers because they want that…”

Used as a historical comparison for Anthropic's platform-building approach.

“The way I would think about it is most of what we're building is platform. We think that there's so many examples of where a platform can accrue a lot of value, but the customers who are building on that platform actually accrue even more value. We think that'…”

Referenced as the company Bezos uses to justify various business losses and investments.

“he's got Brett Ratner, who, uh, was in the Epstein files. Brett Ratner, uh, there was that photo of him. You know, that was, that was the, that was one of the photos that surfaced. Uh, Ratner d- directed the Melania documentary, which was an utter failure, whi…”

Mentioned as the parent company for the health AI service discussed in the editorial context.

“And then there's science. [gentle music] Science Versus Hantavirus is coming up just after the break. [upbeat music] This episode of Science Versus is presented by Amazon Health AI. Guys, we gotta talk about your secret late-night internet searches. You know t…”

A broadcast partner for NFL games.

“It's great, but that's Amazon, right?”

Mentioned as the broadcaster for Thursday Night Football.

“Ladies and gentlemen, joining us is not just Peter Herbstreit, okay, who is obviously the most notable Dawg, I do believe, in the world. Peter hosting the Up Fronts. [laughs] Peter's part of the Up Fronts. Should be, by the way. If we're trying to get money, l…”

The platform where Jen Unwin's book is available for purchase.

“Do you see? So it's Fork in the Road. She doesn't make any money from this. Every penny goes to a charity that she's set up helping people with food addiction. It's available on Amazon and self-published on Amazon.”

Mentioned as a place to purchase continuous glucose monitors.

“... on, on Amazon or a website.”

Mentioned as the broadcaster for the Black Friday NFL game.

“... and then Amazon's like, "Holy crap. Look at this schedule. What do we get on Black Friday?" They're like-”

The company where false rumors claimed Ivy had an affair with her manager.

“But they were like, "No, she's not in this group chat." So that was, like, the first round of rumors, was that he found out that she was involved with Vince, who everybody knows Vince, especially if you went to UCSD, and he snapped. They're like, "That makes s…”

The company the wife left to work at Google, and a comparison point for workplace culture.

“So he, he tells Ivy. She finds the Google Doc. Not only did he take her to the airport, he constantly lied about, uh, oh, and the Google cafeteria. She's finding out that he met her at the Google cafeteria, her workplace that she didn't even wanna work at. She…”

The company where Ivy previously worked before moving to Google.

“you. I hate all of you." And within a few weeks, by the end of that week, she is found dead in their shared home in San Francisco, and Tony is found in a, what has been described by authorities as a catatonic state, covered in his wife's blood, and he refuses …”

Referenced in a humorous pun about online shopping and trees.

“Online shopping, I guess they'd be using Amazon, which is, of course, a, a place where there are lots of trees.”

Used as a benchmark for expanding from a single product category into many.

“A few things come to mind. When people think of Airbnb, if you close your eyes and say, "I want you to think of a picture of Airbnb," you probably think of a house. We're a noun and a verb like Kleenex, which is amazing and not amazing. It's amazing in that, l…”

Mentioned in the context of ordering books internationally.

“Wonderful. And so I really wish I could advertise it here on the video if you're following along the video, but I ordered it as soon as it came out. This is a bad advertising for the German Amazon. It takes a month for the book to arrive, so I still haven't go…”

Mentioned as a potential platform for a hypothetical documentary about De'Aaron Fox.

“Escape, Escape From Sacramento sounds like the next Netflix or Amazon-”

A listener mentions using this platform to self-publish a short story.

“Which, um, I was delighted that people enjoyed our, our weird greeting card episode 'cause that's one of those ones that I was like, "I'm into this. I don't know if anybody else is." [laughs] Uh, but this is, uh, an email from our listener Kelsey who writes, "…”

Mentioned as a platform where David ordered items, prompting questions about why he didn't order cleaning supplies.

“... for 12 days? Which is why TMZ initially, they reported that Celeste had been frozen at some point. The LAPD actually came out to say that's not true at all, that she was not frozen when they found her in the trunk. But that wording is also interesting, of …”

Mentioned as a platform the suspect did not use to purchase a shovel.

“He didn't Postmate it. He didn't order it on Amazon. Maybe he went to the store and paid in cash, but that also doesn't seem like him. He's Postmating a shovel to his house. I don't think that he's gonna go to a store and buy Clorox wipes.”

Shaan Puri mentions learning a meeting preparation method while working at this company.

“What I, what I like to do in these situations, and I think anybody should steal this, I stole this from Amazon when we got acquired there. I, I learned this method, which is you send, um, a little bit of pre-work in advance, and it makes the meeting so much mo…”

Mentioned as a member of the Alliance for OpenMedia.

“And when this format was launched, uh, many people said, especially even from the Alliance for OpenMedia, right, which is Google, Netflix, Amazon, uh, Mozilla, say, "Well, this format is so complex, it must be done in hardware to do decoding," right? And well,…”

Mentioned as a member of the Alliance for OpenMedia working on the AV1 codec.

“So AV1 is this codec that is done by the Alliance for OpenMedia, right? Where there is, uh, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, uh, VideoLAN, where we try to make a royalty-free very good codec, right? And now it's being deployed. But actually, the codec was finis…”

Cited as an example of a 100X company that experienced significant drawdowns.

“... Amazon, Meta-”

Mentioned as the company associated with Jeff Bezos's business philosophy.

“Jeff Bezos. And in this case, it's not the Amazonian comment, which is, "Hey, you're charging high margins, I'm gonna charge a lower margin so I'm gonna get your customers." It's, "Hey, I'm gonna slash margins as close to zero as possible. I'm gonna mutualize …”

A company that utilized the theory of constraints to improve operations.

“There's a beautiful thing in Proust where, uh, one of these grand ladies sends a telegram saying why she can't come to some party that she doesn't wanna go to, and it just says, you know, "Can't come. Lie follows." [chuckles] Which I thought was best, "Lie fol…”

Rachel Cruze uses Amazon as a comparison for a small, trivial purchase versus the significant financial decision of buying a car.

“Well, and there's also, John, and this is not to be judgmental on her by any means. I don't know her story. I, we, you gave us no context except that she's had three kids with three different people. You're, you know, you're the fourth one that, you know, you'…”

Mentioned as an example of the extreme convenience and comfort available in modern society.

“... when you, yeah, when you do anything difficult, you're go- you're gonna feel that stress, you're gonna feel that tension, but most of the time, that result ends up being a better situation for your life than where you were. But yet, in our world today in 2…”

The speaker used the platform to purchase a Catholic Bible.

“So I go on Amazon, I order a Catholic Bible. I'd still told, like, nobody about this at all.”