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DB Dave Blundin Dave Blundin Venture investor and serial entrepreneur, managing partner at Link Ventures and chairman of Cogo Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“Nuclear research, weapons research is highly, highly regulated, highly watched, but it's not an economic driver for the country. Here you have the biggest industry for driving the wealth of your nation combined with the biggest military weapon of all time, all in the same tiny little file that fits on a thumb drive. I mean, nothing has ever been this big of a flashpoint.”

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026

“Nuclear research, weapons research is highly, highly regulated, highly watched, but it's not an economic driver for the country. Here you have the biggest industry for driving the wealth of your nation combined with the biggest military weapon of all time, all in the same tiny little file that fits on a thumb drive. I mean, nothing has ever been this big of a flashpoint.” — Dave Blundin, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Context

The group was discussing likely crackdowns on Chinese models and researchers after the Nvidia affair. Dave argues AI is the first technology that is both a national economic engine and a top weapon, which is why the stakes feel unprecedented.

Transcript

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis Around 14:08 into the episode
Dave Blundin

…spying or transmitting. Or it's just so easy to transmit. Once something's connected to the internet, it's so easy to encode things in all kinds of bizarre timing ways. I think Ahmad was talking about that on one of the prior pods. It's just so leaky. So yeah, anything regulated, anything research.

Peter Diamandis

There's never been anything

Dave Blundin

like this, Peter. This is like unique in human history because, yeah, nuclear research, weapons research is highly, highly regulated, highly watched, but it's not an economic driver for the country. Here you have the biggest industry for driving the wealth of your nation combined with the biggest military weapon of all time, all in the same tiny little file that fits on a thumb drive. I mean, nothing has ever been this big of a flashpoint. We saw the

Peter Diamandis

encampments for Japanese Americans back in World War II. I hope we don't start to see that happening here.

Salim Ismail

I don't think, I'm not quite even sure what we're talking about here. I don't see anyone suggesting nation of origin or ethnic-based anything relating to frontier labs. I think the Jensen Huang story, on the face of it, is the story of espionage, targeting apparently CEO of a prominent company…

Peter Diamandis

not going there. I'm saying, sort of by analogy, requiring the frontier labs not to employ individuals of ethnic origin from China.

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