Instead, Venis hopes to acquire tech from fellow poker night attendee Jeff (Ramy Youssef), who has created a filter capable of distinguishing AI from reality. Yet Jeff is hesitant to sell, both because Traam is a "racist and shitty" platform, and because his net worth is skyrocketing in the face of all the chaos.

The Mountainhead' writer-director Jesse Armstrong talks about Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried, and tackling tech titans in a dark time.

"Succession" creator Jesse Armstrong says his film "Mountainhead", much like his critically-acclaimed HBO show about media mogul Logan Roy, is an exploration of power and how a group of people control the quality and quantity of information that goes out in the world.