Jacob Helberg
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; writer and tech adviser
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; writer and tech adviser
Every podcast episode featuring Jacob Helberg that Attunex has found: 86 interviews and appearances across 39 shows between 2020 and 2026. Most often on The Hill & Valley Forum Podcast (32), Outliers with Daniel Scrivner: Explore the Greatest Innovators, Founders, and Investors (4) and Village Global Podcast (4). Often in conversation with Delian Asparouhov, Erik Torenberg and Becky Quick. Follow Jacob in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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Jacob Helberg joins MTS to discuss the global logistics of the AI supply chain, the definition of digital sovereignty among allied nations, and the economic impacts of integrating emerging…
美國主辦的「矽盛世」峰會25號在華府登場，聚集「矽盛世宣言」各簽署方的代表，台灣也以非簽署方身分參與。美國國務院向中央社記者表示，台美在供應鏈及人工智慧等領域密切合作，台灣的先進製造業在推動AI革命方面扮演關鍵角色。 「矽盛世」（Pax Silica）倡議是美國與盟國組成的合作團體，旨在確保人工智慧（AI）供應鏈安全。美國國務院主管經濟事務的次卿海柏格（Jacob…
Hugh discusses Tuesday night's primary election results in New York, the ongoing situation with Iran, and talks with Abe Greenwald, Jonathan Williams, Eliana Johnson, Mary Kissel, Victorino Matus,…
The US government is desperate to create a new supply chain that cuts out China, through its Pax Silica initiative. To do so, the Trump administration plans to colonize the territory of the…
Jacob Helberg is leading the State Department's efforts to secure critical supply chains and win the global AI race. How is the U.S. shifting from dependency on China to building new partnerships…
Securing AI dominance requires more than just semiconductors; it demands a complete overhaul of how the West manages everything that goes into them, from rare earth minerals to actuators. Enter: Pax…
Breaking Point with David Zere - April 18, 2026 A - David sits down with REAlloys Advisory Board Member Matt August B - David has interviews from the Bessent Economic Roundtable in Westchester…
Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helberg’s book The Wires of War, they explore…
The Second Cold War that the United States is waging against China includes a trade war, tech war, and now a mineral war. In alliance with Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations, the US government is…
On December 12, 2025, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg and representatives from Japan, the State of Israel, Australia, the Republic of Singapore, the Republic of Korea, and…
Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Databricks’ latest $4 billion Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation. Plus, Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and founder of…
AI doomers say that the technology will be the ultimate job-killer. But Jacob Helberg wants people to see AI as a tech that will boost, not replace, human workers and give them superpowers. Under…
(0:00) The besties introduce the day with Jacob Helberg (9:08) Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (18:24) Chris Power, Hadrian (35:15) Jake Loosararian, Gecko…
The fourth annual Hill and Valley Forum brings together Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill to strengthen public-private partnerships for American technological leadership, featuring speakers discussing…
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum discusses the critical importance of energy dominance to American technological leadership, particularly in the AI arms race against China, highlighting the need…
Senator Bill Hagerty shares his optimistic vision for American technological and economic leadership, outlining the Trump administration's strategy to counter China's unfair trade practices through…
In this conversation at the Hill and Valley Forum, Palantir CEO Alex Karp discusses his book "The Technological Republic," the importance of Western values, and the organizational principles that…
Oracle CEO Safra Catz discusses the company's commitment to supporting U.S. national security, describing Oracle's longstanding relationship with intelligence agencies, their principled stance on…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discusses the concept of AI factories—systems that transform electricity into computational intelligence—and explains how AI represents an industrial revolution that will…
Anduril co-founder Brian Schimpf and US Ambassador to the United Nations nominee Mike Waltz discuss the urgent need to reform defense acquisition processes, with Schimpf arguing for free market…
In a video address to the Hill and Valley Forum, Taiwan's representative emphasizes the strategic importance of Taiwan-US partnership across three key areas: national security, industrial…
In this panel discussion at the Hill and Valley Forum, leaders from the commercial space industry and government discuss America's space superiority, with SpaceX's Tim Hughes highlighting the…
In this panel discussion, Senator Joni Ernst, Chair of the DOGE Caucus, joins Ramp CEO Eric Glyman and tech executive Keith Rabois to discuss improving government efficiency through commercial…
In this "Made in America" panel at the Hill and Valley Forum, experts including Senator Todd Young, David Friedberg, and Shaun Maguire discuss the urgent need to rebuild America's industrial…
In this Hill and Valley Forum panel on critical minerals, Congressman Ritchie Torres, MP Materials CEO James Litinsky, Lilac Solutions CEO Raef Sully, and Lowercarbon GP Clay Dumas discuss America's…
In this Hill and Valley Forum panel, Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, Stephen Miran, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and Congressman John Moolenaar discuss how humanoid robots…
In this Hill and Valley Forum panel, Senator Mike Rounds, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Lightspeed Venture Partners founder Ravi Mhatre discuss the critical balance between accelerating AI…
In this Hill and Valley Forum panel, Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis, Senator Jack Reed, and Lux Capital's Josh Wolfe discuss the challenges of maintaining US technological leadership against…
In this session from the Hill & Valley Forum 2025, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI), Saronic's Co-Founder & CCO Rob Lehman, 8VC partner Alex Moore, and Caffeinated Capital GP Varun Gupta explore how…
In this session from the Hill & Valley Forum 2025, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Senator Mike Lee (UT) diagnose the crippling bureaucracy hampering America's defense innovation and outline a path to…
In this conversation recorded at the Hill & Valley Forum 2025, Josh Kushner, Founder of Thrive Capital, sits with Jacob Helberg to discuss his firm's investment approach and America's AI leadership…
In this session from the Hill & Valley Forum 2025, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and Fatih Ozmen (CEO, Sierra Nevada Corporation) discuss America's strategy for winning the decisive decade in great…
In this panel from the 2025 Hill & Valley Forum, tech leaders Kevin Weil (Chief Product Officer, OpenAI), Ruth Porat (President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google), and Emil Michael…
In his closing fireside at the 2025 Hill & Valley Forum, Vinod Khosla shares his strategic vision for American AI dominance, detailing why strategic AI advantages are critical for national security…
In his closing address at the 2025 Hill & Valley Forum, House Speaker Mike Johnson outlines a vision for revitalizing American industrial strength through three key Republican priorities: unleashing…
In his address at the 2025 Hill & Valley Forum, 41st Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick outlines the administration's industrial policy focused on rebuilding American manufacturing through tariffs,…
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In this eye-opening episode, we sit down with Jacob, the State Department's top economic policy and trade official appointed by President Trump in January. Our conversation couldn't be more timely as…
On this episode of Invested, Michael argues that TikTok needs to be banned, looking back at pivotal discussions from the Invested podcast over the past year with key business leaders, security…
(0:00) The Besties welcome Keith Rabois! (4:01) Keith explains why he returned to Khosla Ventures, the differences between Founders Fund and Khosla, and his husband Jacob Helberg's role in Trump…
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, and Jacob Helberg, discuss AI-enabled warfare, the importance of taking clear ethical stances, the evolution of Silicon Valley culture, and the integration of tech…
Jacob Helberg is a senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he is…
In this episode, Erik Torenberg sits down with Sequoia Capital Managing Partner Roelof Botha and Jacob Helberg, author, Palantir advisor, and founder of the Hill and Valley Conference. They delve…
On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Jacob Helberg, Commissioner of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Jacob also serves as a Senior Policy Advisor to the CEO of…
In this episode of Upstream, we're publishing a session recorded live at The Hill & Valley Forum in May 2024 hosted by Jacob Helberg, and featuring Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, and Senator Todd…
The United States is forcing TikTok to sell its platform domestically as concerns over a technology war rise in Silicon Valley. Palantir advisor Jacob Helberg who was behind the TikTok bill, explains…
Erik Torenberg interviews Roelof Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital, and Jacob Helberg, advisor to Palantir CEO and organizer of The Hill & Valley Forum. Roelof and Jacob discuss the need…
Jacob Helberg discusses the importance of technological advancements for national defense and the shifting relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington D.C., highlighting an end to the era of…
The most pressing blockades in tech discussed today revolve around at-risk supply chain systems, acquiring GPUs for model advancement, lean manufacturing systems and more. However, Alex Karp, CEO &…
Nand Mulchandani, CTO of the CIA and Rob Silvers, Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans of the DHS, join Senator Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) to discuss the complete overhaul of the most private…
Speaker Mike Johnson emphasizes the critical importance of maintaining U.S. leadership in AI, expressing concerns over potential Chinese dominance and the misuse of AI technologies against American…
House Representative Jay Obernolte (R-CA) discusses pivoting from his background in computer science to entering congress, where he now leads the House AI Task force. Tasked with creating a…
House Republican Elise Stefanik discusses the importance of AI in national security, acknowledges Palantir's support for Israel, and outlines the U.S.'s efforts to maintain technical superiority. She…
David Remnick talks with a proponent of the TikTok ban that just passed in Washington. Jacob Helberg, an executive with the data giant Palantir who serves in a government agency called the United…
Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, and Senator Todd Young (R-IN) dive straight into the most pressing national security concerns regarding the threat of AI. In this techno-economic race, Vinod and…
Jacob Helberg was influential in pushing for the law that forces the sale of TikTok. Now, he wants Congress to prepare for a future conflict with China, one that has artificial intelligence at the…
China is bankrolling its own “Arsenal of Autocracy” through forces like Russia and North Korea. At the same time, the conversation around TikTok and its roll in undermining American culture and unity…
Apple shares have been under pressure this week, as reports of China’s restriction of Apple products continue. CNBC’s Beijing Bureau Chief Eunice Yoon discusses the report and the CCP’s approach to…
The Hill & Valley podcast gives you an insider's look into tech and government, hearing from founders and operators of generational tech companies, elected representatives and policymakers, and more.…
Artificial intelligence raises increasingly grim concerns among experts. Are our digital spaces truly safe for democracy? On Deep Dish, the Alliance for Securing Democracy's Laura Rosenberger and…
Jacob Helberg of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission joined Coffee with Ken for a discussion on Coffee with Ken about TikTok, China and National Security.
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Lawmakers grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on data, the platform’s relationship with Chinese owner Bytedance , and content moderation. Stanford University Geopolitics and Technology Adviser Jacob…
We explore the fight between democracy and autocracy for the future of the internet. We’re joined by Jacob Helberg, author of The Wires of War. We cover the definition of autocracy, watershed moments…
We deconstruct Jacob Helberg's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Jacob is the author of The Wires of War: Technology and…
Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg), foreign policy expert and author of The Wires of War, joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon to discuss: - Why he says peace through trade was the biggest foreign policy…
Jacob Helberg is the author of The Wires of War, senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology, and co-chair at the Brookings Institution China Strategy Working…
This week on The Intersection Podcast, IQT's Steve Bowsher talks with Jacob Helberg, author of The Wires of War, about how technology plays a key role in the global struggle for power and what…
In Episode #68, we deconstruct Jacob Helberg's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Jacob is the author of The Wires of War:…
In Episode #67, we explore the fight between democracy and autocracy for the future of the internet. We’re joined by Jacob Helberg, author of The Wires of War. We cover the definition of autocracy,…
In this episode, we explore the fight between democracy and autocracy for the future of the internet. We’re joined by Jacob Helberg, author of The Wires of War. We cover the definition of autocracy,…
In this episode, we deconstruct Jacob Helberg's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Jacob is the author of The Wires of War:…
This week, we go deep into what in the world is going in China. I was joined by Jacob Helberg, Co-Chair of the China Strategy Initiative at The Brookings Institution. Jacob is one of the most…
Today we’re featuring excerpts from our Realignment conference in Miami. Antonio García Martínez on how culture, economics, and politics are downstream from technology. Jacob Helberg on his book: The…
Jacob Helberg joins Alex Moazed for a special episode detailing Helbergs new book The Wires of War. Helberg, who previously led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat…
Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg), author of The Wires of War, joins Erik to discuss: - The “gray war” that Jacob believes the US is in with China, and why he feels it’s important to call it a war rather…
"China wasn't trying to hack the product per se. They were trying to use products in unanticipated ways to undermine trust in democracy and in the democratic system of government." Jacob Helberg is…
On this special episode of POWER PLAYS, Jacob Helberg from Stanford University's Center on Geopolitics and Technology introduces listeners to the global tech-fueled struggle between the U.S.-led…
Cenk Uygur hosts. Jacob Helberg joins and talks about the data war the US could potentially face. Dr. William Halal joins to discuss societies' reliance on the internet and social media. Hosted on…
Jacob Helberg is a senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Jacob is also the…
Connie & Alex review the week's tech news and then talk to Jacob Helberg, author of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, a damning indictment of what Helberg views as the…
Jason does a short news segment on China's Bitcoin Mining hash rate falling to 0 and how the U.S. is now the largest mining hub (1:59). Then, Jacob Helberg author of "The Wires of War: Technology and…
From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can…
Jacob Helberg, senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology, former news policy lead at Google, and author of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle…
Keith Rabois (@rabois), partner at Founders Fund, and Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg), senior advisor at Stanford Cyber, adjunct fellow at CSIS, and formerly of Google, join Erik on this episode. They…
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Over the last 6 months, without question, one of the most nuanced geopolitical relationships has made it to the forefront of mainstream media. This week we answer the question - what in the world is…
This week, US intelligence released a report examining the threat of foreign influence in the 2020 presidential election from China, Russia, and Iran. The Alliance for Security Democracy's Laura…
Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg), senior advisor at Stanford Cyber, adjunct fellow at CSIS, and formerly of Google, joins Erik on this episode. They discuss: - The competition between the US and China.…