Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161

Today’s show: It’s a brand-new PACKED episode of TWiST. Jason and Alex welcome guest Zach Dive of Adam.new, to tell us why he made a deepfake AI ad starring Jason and the All-In besties. PLUS a rundown of the biggest tech and startup news of the day, including Disney’s decision to sunset Hulu, OpenAI’s new open-weight models, the Cloudflare vs. Perplexity feud, Uber’s newly-announced stock buyback, China’s Luckin Coffee coming to Manhattan, and much much more! Timestamps: (0:00) Luckin Coffee hits NYC… along with COMMUNISM?! (09:15) Is China taking on major American brands on PURPOSE? (10:16) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (11:29) Show Continues… (20:17) CLA - Get started with CLA's CPAs, consultants, and wealth advisors now at https://claconnect.com/tech (21:30) Show Continues… (26:02) RIP HULU: Why Disney is sunsetting the iconic app. (28:37) Nostracanis Returns: Jason’s 2017 Disney vs. Netflix predictions came true (30:24) .TECH - Say it without saying it. Head to www.get.tech/twist or your favorite registrar to get a clean, sharp .tech domain today. (31:28) Show Continues… (35:39) Zach Dive of Adam.new joins to tell us about making a viral deepfake ad starring JCal and the Besties (44:10) Zach shares thoughts on AI and copyright, and why it’s a problem for the “big dogs,” not him… yet (48:12) Jason wants to wet his beak… but is there room in the Adam.new seed round? (53:07)OpenAI’s new models are open-WEIGHT; how that’s different from open-source. (58:36) Do Nvidia and Apple devices NEED kill switches and backdoors? Why it’s such a tough question. (01:02:10) GPT-5 arrives TOMORROW?! (01:03:31) Cloudflare vs. Perplexity… let them fight? Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis Thank you to our partners: (10:16) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (20:17) CLA - Get started with CLA's CPAs, consultants, and wealth advisors now at https://claconnect.com/tech (30:24) .TECH - Say it without saying it. Head to www.get.tech/twist or your favorite registrar to get a clean, sharp .tech domain today. Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe , Steve Huffman , Brian Chesky , Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie , Sophia Amoruso , Reid Hoffman , Frank Slootman , Billy McFarland Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com Subscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@founderuniversity1916