All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter

June 26, 2026

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Socialist Sweep in NYC, China's AI Catch-Up, and the Memory Crunch

The All-In podcast covered four major topics in episode 278, with the throughline being that structural shifts in politics and technology are happening faster than many realize. The Democratic Socialists of America swept three congressional primaries in New York City, Chinese open-source AI models have reached near-frontier capability, and the memory chip shortage is reshaping everything from consumer electronics to the economics of orbital computing.

The DSA Takeover of the Democratic Party

The most striking political development was the DSA's three-for-three sweep in New York's congressional Democratic primaries. In the 10th district—one of New York's wealthiest, covering the West Village, Wall Street, Dumbo, and Park Slope—Brad Lander defeated two-term incumbent Dan Goldman. In the 13th district, covering Harlem and the West Bronx, 32-year-old PhD candidate Chevalier beat a five-term incumbent backed by House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. In the 7th district, Claire Valdez won an open seat in the DSA stronghold of Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Long Island City.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:00) **Socialist sweep in NYC Democratic primaries** - Three DSA-endorsed candidates defeat incumbents in safe blue districts
2 (07:09) **DSA platform and constitutional overhaul goals** - Candidates explicitly call for abolishing the Senate, electoral college, ICE, and prisons
3 (08:52) **Profile of NY-13 winner Chevalier** - 32-year-old unemployed PhD candidate defeats five-term incumbent backed by Hakeem Jeffries
4 (10:57) **DSA strategy to use Democratic Party as vehicle** - Co-chair states they are building independent organization while caucusing with Democrats only when useful
5 (17:19) **Economic roots of DSA appeal** - Gavin Baker links rise to downwardly mobile wealthy white liberals and failure of traditional Democratic working-class messaging
6 (24:59) **Social media age restrictions as counter to radicalization** - Chamath proposes banning under-16s citing Canada/UK/Australia moves
7 (45:05) **Chinese GLM 5.2 open-weight model release** - 744B parameter model scores highest ever on open-weight benchmarks and beats GPT-5.5 on coding