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Nov 13, 2026 · 22:06
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO amid the spy scandal, with CFO Colette Kress stepping in as interim. Trump pitched Tim Cook as his successor, the board reportedly eyed…
Nov 12, 2026 · 29:33
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Nov 11, 2026 · 20:38
Anthropic kicked off its IPO roadshow, with bankers already eyeing a higher price, and launched Claude Sheets, Meetings and Whiteboards to take on Microsoft and Google. Nvidia…
Nov 10, 2026 · 20:38
Trump said the FBI was looking into Jensen Huang’s affair, and Nvidia’s stock sank 4.3%. Uber launched in-app parking in 15 cities. Anthropic released Mythos and Fable 5.2, which…
Nov 9, 2026 · 23:42
Jensen Huang’s scandal blew up: Nvidia’s board opened a probe after he admitted an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, Rubio’s memo surfaced, and shell firms got H200 approvals.…
Nov 7, 2026 · 27:15
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Nov 6, 2026 · 22:52
Investors grew skeptical Anthropic’s IPO could land a $1.5T valuation after a brutal chip selloff. Thinking Machines unveiled Inkling 2 Small, Tesla announced it would wind down…
Nov 5, 2026 · 21:45
OpenAI pledged to rethink data center deals, dropping NDAs, after the blue wave rattled AI. Motorola launched a $1,599 flagship, OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber, and Apple’s…
Nov 4, 2026 · 21:27
Democrats swept Texas, Georgia and Ohio governorships on data center moratorium pledges, putting AI buildout billions at risk. Apple opened Siri AI to every developer, Google…
Nov 3, 2026 · 20:57
Apple beat estimates in John Ternus’s first earnings call, but memory costs loomed. Investors told Anthropic to price its IPO near $1.5T. Google banned a TV box maker for…
Nov 2, 2026 · 21:24
OpenAI cut its funding round to about $20B at a $1.25T valuation as the AI selloff spooked investors. Anthropic’s S-1 showed nearly $17B in quarterly revenue, Marvell agreed to…
Oct 30, 2026 · 22:21
Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a…
Oct 29, 2026 · 22:09
I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B…
Oct 28, 2026 · 21:44
Apple unveiled a touchscreen MacBook Pro, finally ditching Jobs’s stance. Then Amazon unloaded gadgets: a $500 Echo Show 16, the Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame, and…
Oct 27, 2026 · 21:04
OpenAI claimed three fresh breakthroughs in math, physics, and computer science — including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false. Apple unveiled the M6 MacBook Pro.…
Oct 26, 2026 · 25:06
Anthropic’s S-1 finally dropped: ticker ANT, $16.3B in first-half revenue, and a gargantuan compute bill. Apple unveiled an OLED iPad mini, Meta moved to raise $95B for AI,…
Oct 23, 2026 · 23:13
OpenAI neared a $30B bridge round at a $1.25T valuation, down from the $1.4T it pitched, ahead of an IPO. Treasury proposed curbs on US tech investment in China, banks blocked…
Oct 22, 2026 · 22:04
PHP-aggedon kept rolling, with patches covering only PHP 8.2 and newer. Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet, a proactive background agent. Meta’s Muse topped 10 million users while…
Oct 21, 2026 · 22:19
Emergency PHP patches dropped for two critical RCE flaws hitting every version since 2004. Also: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus showed $16.3B H1 revenue and an $80.7B loss, OpenAI…
Oct 20, 2026 · 22:35
DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, its internal inference stack. Inception’s diffusion LLM Mercury 3 claimed 4x to 8x speed over Haiku 5.5. Spotify launched paid podcast…
Oct 19, 2026 · 21:24
Elon Musk promised every American kid a SpaceX share, about $10.5B worth, as Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund. MapQuest also started mapping Flock…
Oct 16, 2026 · 21:08
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios via an Apple team-up. An OpenAI model used a wallet it didn’t own, Accenture capped Claude spending…
Oct 15, 2026 · 21:23
Anthropic told investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion, with adjusted profitability, but growth slowed ahead of the IPO. An arrested OpenAI engineer had booked one-way tickets to…
Oct 14, 2026 · 20:59
OpenAI said the FBI arrested a staffer after it found a hidden recording device in its offices. Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs, Microsoft patched a record 1,416 vulnerabilities,…
Oct 13, 2026 · 22:46
Apple’s Welcome Home event brought the $299 HomeView smart display, LG and Schneider smart home gear, and a HomePod mini 2. Meta’s Muse Wonder caught up to the frontier, and Epic…
Oct 12, 2026 · 22:17
Anthropic cut off live internet access for internal evals after its agents exploited websites and even filed a false murder tip. Microsoft unveiled its Maia 300 chip, Nadella…
Oct 9, 2026 · 22:46
Fired OpenAI safety researchers disputed their dismissals and OpenAI pushed back. The FT said OpenAI’s annualized revenue was nearer $50B than $70B, rattling AI stocks. SpaceX…
Oct 8, 2026 · 21:45
Scott Aaronson said AI labs had started testing whether their newest models could break cryptography, and Vitalik Buterin urged taking it seriously. Anthropic launched Haiku 5.5,…
Oct 7, 2026 · 20:11
OpenAI dropped hundreds of solved open math problems from an unreleased model. HBO Max and Paramount Plus agreed to become one streamer. Apple's smart home push leaked, including…
Oct 6, 2026 · 21:43
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveiled Beam, a US open-weights model taking on Chinese labs. Plus, SemiAnalysis said Claude subscriptions were a better deal than OpenAI's, Meta and…
Oct 5, 2026 · 21:36
An ex-OpenAI safety staffer quit, saying AI labs needed to get it right the first time. Plus, Western open-weight models were coming, Meta's Muse kept a page on everyone you…
Oct 2, 2026 · 21:13
OpenAI fired three researchers for allegedly sharing sensitive info with an AI safety group, and the whistleblower talk started. Cloudflare launched Clef to challenge Jev, Suno…
Oct 1, 2026 · 21:30
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, which you and I can't use yet, and insiders say it's weaker in practice than on benchmarks. Amazon refreshed the Kindle, Samsung quietly hiked…
Sep 30, 2026 · 20:14
Trump got the big AI companies to sign a voluntary, "morally binding" safety accord. OpenAI's DevDay delivered Dots, always-on agents, plus GPT-6.1 Sol and a play to make ChatGPT…
Sep 29, 2026 · 22:09
Anthropic's IPO prospectus finally surfaced: a $42B net loss on $4.6B in revenue, a quarter of it from two customers. OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra over safety, Oura postponed…
Sep 28, 2026 · 21:58
Nvidia launched a safety platform to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, SpaceX finally got Starship into orbit, Meta launched an enterprise AI business, Instinct raised $1…
Sep 25, 2026 · 20:58
Microsoft finally unveiled its Copilot super app, with chat, coding, and agents in one place. Tesla's Optimus ramp hit snags. Meta wanted you making AI games for Instagram. And a…
Sep 24, 2026 · 19:56
Meta unveiled $1,299 VR Glasses, $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and a keychain Muse Charm gadget, plus Ray-Ban Display upgrades. Anthropic's Claude agents found a…
Sep 23, 2026 · 21:18
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, cheaper and safer than Opus 5, right as OpenAI dropped GPT-6 Sol and Luna with half the errors and lower prices. YouTube countered with Shorts…
Sep 22, 2026 · 22:31
Meta's Muse topped download charts and sent Meta stocks soaring, Shopify agreed to let Muse complete checkouts via Shop Pay, Microsoft laid off Xbox staffers as Halo moves to…
Sep 21, 2026 · 20:31
Google launched Googlebook laptops with deep Android integration from five partners starting at $899, xAI released Grok 4.7 at bargain pricing but trailing Claude and GPT-6 on…
Sep 18, 2026 · 21:33
Security researchers used Claude to hack into OpenAI's private code repository through a bug bounty program, OpenAI launched Astra for Law for select firms, Anthropic redesigned…
Sep 17, 2026 · 20:30
OpenAI disclosed six new AI misalignment incidents, including models hiding their own mistakes, the SEC unveiled a five-year tokenized-stock trading exemption, Zuckerberg, Huang,…
Sep 16, 2026 · 20:29
The Senate failed to advance the crypto industry's Clarity Act, Meta prepared to launch camera-free Luna smart glasses this fall, OpenAI and Anthropic staff said they were…
Sep 15, 2026 · 20:47
President Trump dismissed AI-safety warnings as a "hoax" on a live call with Jensen Huang, a Google DeepMind researcher resigned warning AI "could kill us all," cybersecurity…
Sep 14, 2026 · 21:41
Dario Amodei called for pacing frontier AI development, endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launched a streaming lobbying alliance, Anthropic told…
Sep 11, 2026 · 20:07
Anthropic detailed how it disrupted AI misuse for cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research, OpenAI paused new ChatGPT Pro signups amid Astra demand, AI assistant…
Sep 10, 2026 · 22:37
Researcher Jacob Coxon said he quit Anthropic over fears the AI race is uncontrollable, Automattic put Matt Mullenweg on leave after a board dispute, Apple unveiled a health app…
Sep 9, 2026 · 22:16
Apple unveiled its first foldable, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with a new A20 Pro chip, AirPods 5 with 50% more noise cancellation, and Apple…
Sep 8, 2026 · 22:41
Bloomberg detailed Apple's decade-long path to a $2,000+ foldable iPhone, Gamers Nexus alleged LG smart TVs eavesdropped via built-in microphones and tracked nearby devices, and…
Sep 7, 2026 · 20:14
Tim Cook's new pay package signaled he'd stay deeply involved at Apple, Travis Kalanick's Atoms drew a $100M Uber investment for robotaxi tech, OpenAI's chief scientist called…
Sep 4, 2026 · 22:54
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it a leap toward AGI, while reports surfaced that rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki, Microsoft unveiled Project Zenith for local AI…
Sep 3, 2026 · 21:32
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, betting on its $399 Microduck robot as a physical-AI data engine, Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.3 to rival Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol,…
Sep 2, 2026 · 21:26
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 with a 75% cache-price cut, Google countered with Gemini 3.8 Flash, OpenAI teased Astra's public release, a judge spared Google's ad…
Sep 1, 2026 · 21:30
Tim Cook sent Apple staff a farewell memo on his last day as CEO, the FTC sued Amazon over $20B in hidden ad surcharges, Starman Optical bought GoPro for $285M, Waymo hit three…
Aug 31, 2026 · 21:51
OpenClaw shipped 2.0 with shared sessions that aren't a security boundary. OpenAI's ads hit a $1B run rate, outcome-based AI pricing spread from Salesforce to OpenAI, and the…
Aug 28, 2026 · 21:20
A judge blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, calling the retaliation illegal. OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ companies warned the AI cyberattack window is closing, Apple…
Aug 27, 2026 · 20:25
Nvidia posted $96B in quarterly revenue and guided to 70% growth next year, then agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B. Trump weighed sweeping chip tariffs, cybersecurity stocks…
Aug 26, 2026 · 21:38
Meta agreed to pay up to $16.68B to settle state claims it hooked kids on Facebook and Instagram, with teen time limits attached. Z.ai unmasked Ox Alpha, Amazon killed Mechanical…
Aug 25, 2026 · 21:21
Apple refreshed the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra and gave the Mac mini M6 silicon, at higher prices. OpenAI's Jalapeño chip beat Nvidia on efficiency, Perplexity went…
Aug 24, 2026 · 20:26
Hugging Face explored a sale at $13B+, keeping the AI M&A wave rolling. Trump scolded towns that reject data centers while Abbott said the industry dug its own grave, Fable 5…
Aug 23, 2026 · 1:08:18
In this episode, we explore Onix, a platform that enables experts to train their own AI models to help millions with health, wellness, and personal development. Founders Nicholas…
Aug 20, 2026 · 20:56
Stripe made the OpenRouter deal official at $7.5B. Unitree's Shanghai debut popped 460% past a $50B market cap, YouTube dangled millions to keep creators off Netflix, Slack…
Aug 19, 2026 · 19:40
OpenAI paused training and rewrote its Preparedness Framework after Astra flirted with a critical cyber threshold. Leaked numbers showed Anthropic out-earning OpenAI nearly two…
Aug 18, 2026 · 20:52
Apple made peace with the EU, unveiling new App Store terms and a 5% Core Technology Commission. OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, camera-equipped AirPods Ultra leaked,…
Aug 17, 2026 · 20:31
Stripe locked in a $7B+ deal for OpenRouter, and OpenAI leased a 10GW Ohio campus with Nvidia backstopping it. The Journal found $3T in off-balance-sheet AI commitments, an…
Aug 14, 2026 · 20:31
China's labs kept coming: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claimed Mythos-5-level cyber chops and DeepSeek's V4-Pro landed to mixed reviews. OpenAI gave ChatGPT a memory of your Mac, the Journal…
Aug 13, 2026 · 20:24
Anthropic's investors talked up a $2T+ October IPO, even as data showed Fable 5 barely selling. Google cut prices on Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI previewed a 14× faster tier, Trump…
Aug 12, 2026 · 20:23
Google's Pixel event dominated, with the Pixel 11 line, a $1,899 Pro Fold, and a $399 Watch 5 packed with Gemini and health trends. SpaceXAI closed the day out by dropping Grok…
Aug 11, 2026 · 19:00
Anthropic said new Claude models will watermark generated text to satisfy the EU AI Act, and it's out courting investors for a possibly record-breaking IPO. Apple's glass iPhone…
Aug 10, 2026 · 19:34
OpenAI paused its Astra model over cyber capabilities it can't rule out, while Zvi picked apart the Hugging Face timeline. Zuck went open-weight with a 6,500-word manifesto,…
Aug 7, 2026 · 19:19
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $942M over harms to kids, with a trillion-dollar trial next. ByteDance started pretraining a 10T-parameter model, AMD bought Taalas to etch…
Aug 6, 2026 · 20:11
Meta jumped into the coding-agent race with Muse Code, priced to undercut everyone. OpenAI revealed its rogue agents ran a secret message board to swap exploits, Rockstar dated a…
Aug 5, 2026 · 19:42
Google shook up its AI leadership, kicking Demis Hassabis upstairs while Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat left to found Discovery Loop. SpaceX's first earnings spooked investors, a…
Aug 4, 2026 · 19:06
OpenAI took Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit to the court of public opinion, receipts and all. Bending Spoons bought Airtable, Anthropic inked a $10B Norway compute deal, the US…
Aug 3, 2026 · 20:07
OpenAI found more instances of AI agents escaping containment, and nobody's sure who's liable. Astra solved ten open math problems, Google pulled a Google Earth image tool over…
Jul 31, 2026 · 19:03
Anthropic revealed Claude broke into three real organizations during cybersecurity tests it thought were simulations. Apple slid 10% as component shortages hit its outlook,…
Jul 30, 2026 · 19:30
Microsoft surged 15% on its fastest cloud growth since 2022, while Meta slid 10% defending its AI spending. Aschenbrenner's hedge fund unwound positions after the AI rout, the EU…
Jul 29, 2026 · 20:05
Over 1,100 AI staffers signed a letter asking Washington to help pace frontier development. Wall Street got nervous as AI capex ballooned, Silicon Valley's backlash against…
Jul 28, 2026 · 19:52
Dario Amodei said Anthropic never backed an open-weights ban, pitching mandatory safety tests instead as OpenAI and Google signed on. Altman headed to Washington, Korea's KOSPI…
Jul 27, 2026 · 20:04
Nvidia committed $5B to Ilya Sutskever's SSI and weighed a $250B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio megaproject. CXMT soared 466% in its debut, Amazon filed for 5,105 satellites, Apple…
Jul 24, 2026 · 20:05
Stripe was in talks to buy OpenRouter for as much as $10B while still chasing PayPal. Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, Meta launched Facebook Verified and a standalone…
Jul 23, 2026 · 21:27
OpenAI staff were reportedly freaked out after its models breached Hugging Face, as aggressive training raced Anthropic. Google posted its first-ever negative free cash flow on…
Jul 22, 2026 · 21:07
OpenAI said its models breached Hugging Face's infrastructure during a cyber-capability test. The White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi…
Jul 21, 2026 · 21:26
Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash and started pretraining Gemini 4. China weighed tightening AI export controls, Bessent said the US would probe Chinese model distillation, Apple…
Jul 20, 2026 · 21:10
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8 Max as Moonshot paused Kimi K3 signups amid demand. The Trump administration weighed a slow squeeze on Chinese AI, Hugging Face used China's GLM-5.2…
Jul 17, 2026 · 19:58
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter model it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. Google fell months behind on Gemini 3.5 Pro, MLB banned dugout iPads from accessing…
Jul 16, 2026 · 20:03
Uber agreed to acquire Delivery Hero for ~$14.8B, expanding into 99 markets. Thinking Machines released its first open-weight model, Inkling, SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build…
Jul 15, 2026 · 22:32
New York became the first state to pause new data center permits, worrying the AI industry. Stripe and Advent offered $53B+ for PayPal, OpenAI's first device leaked as a…
Jul 14, 2026 · 19:55
Demis Hassabis proposed a US-based frontier AI standards body modeled on FINRA. IBM's stock cratered 20% on a Q2 miss from chip-spending shifts, Spotify launched a voice-control…
Jul 13, 2026 · 20:43
Apple sued OpenAI, alleging ex-employees stole trade secrets for its hardware push. Twelve states sued to block the Paramount-WBD merger, Anthropic extended free Fable 5 access…
Jul 10, 2026 · 21:39
OpenAI broadly released GPT-5.6 and launched ChatGPT Work, targeting Anthropic. Fidji Simo stepped down from OpenAI citing health, the EU found Meta's "addictive design" violates…
Jul 9, 2026 · 21:02
SpaceXAI debuted Grok 4.5 with Cursor, targeting Opus-level performance at lower cost. Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 via API, OpenAI rolled out full-duplex GPT-Live voice models,…
Jul 8, 2026 · 21:22
Chinese AI models grabbed over 30% of US token use as Beijing weighed curbing access. Anthropic expanded Cowork to mobile and web, Meta launched its first AI image generator on…
Jul 7, 2026 · 22:20
Microsoft laid off ~4,800 employees and gutted Xbox by 3,200 jobs while divesting five studios. Samsung's profit rocketed past Nvidia's, Meta faced a $1.4 trillion lawsuit…
Jul 6, 2026 · 40:53
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Jul 3, 2026 · 1:09:37
In the fast-paced world of live sports broadcasting, the role of a vision mixer is crucial yet often overlooked. Today, we’re diving into the insights shared by David Steer, an…
Jul 2, 2026 · 22:21
OpenAI floated giving the US government a 5% stake to court the Trump administration. Nvidia promised to backstop cloud providers for a revenue cut, SpaceX showed investors an…
Jul 1, 2026 · 20:40
Anthropic said Commerce lifted export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5, restoring access Wednesday, and launched Sonnet 5. Sony is ending PlayStation game discs in 2028, a…
Jun 30, 2026 · 20:24
Comcast moved to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a new public company. The Supreme Court limited geofence warrants, Australia sued Amazon over Prime Video ads, Chamath…
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