Imaginary conversations that might actually have happened Act I Sam: We missed all our metrics, Anthropic and Google have gained on us. Give…

Imaginary conversations that might actually have happened Act I Sam: We missed all our metrics, Anthropic and Google have gained on us. Give us 40 billion dollars. Masa: No way! Sam: If you don't, we go out of business and you go along with us. Masa: Ok, YOLO. Where I can send the wire to? Act II Sam: We missed all our metrics, Anthropic and Google have gained on us. Give us 40 billion dollars. POTUS: No way! Sam: If you don't, we go out of business and take the U.S. economy along with us. POTUS: Ok, YOLO. Let's call it an "investment". Where I can send the wire to?

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-07