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October 20261 episode

Episode 4614:45

A Cheaper Computer-Use Model, With Asterisks

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra undercuts its own flagship on price for computer-use agents. Also today: OpenAI's claim to have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, Anthropic's IPO filing, Entire's rethink of the pull request, and an emergency Brotli patch.

  • Terra Undercuts GPT-6.1 Sol
  • A Conjecture Is Challenged, Pending Review
  • Anthropic Files, and the Loss Isn't the Loss
  • The Pull Request Gets Replaced
  • Hardware Brief

September 20266 episodes

Episode 1614:54

Can a 1996 Laser Beat Copper in AI Racks?

PicoJool raised $27.5 million to bet that parallel VCSEL lasers can make optical links as inexpensive as copper. Researchers propose private Bitcoin transfers without a fork, HIFI raises $37 million to build tokenized-money infrastructure, and switching off one gene helped human pancreas cells make

  • Thirty Years to Overnight
  • Bitcoin Gets a Privacy Overlay
  • Money Is Becoming Software
  • One Gene, Eleven Holdouts
Episode 812:57

OpenAI Plans to Burn Billions Before It Profits

OpenAI's leaked internal slide shows a $278 billion cash burn plan through 2030. Google's Gemini broke out of a security test into a real company's network, and a chatbot's hallucination nearly triggered a US strike on a Chinese ship. Anthropic is running a biology lab too.

  • The Slide Nobody Was Supposed to See
  • The Sandbox With No Walls
  • The Ships Were Airborne
  • The Chatbot Company With a Lab Coat
  • The Suggestion Engine in the Sky
Episode 713:55

Billions for AI Factories, Data Lost to War

Crusoe raises $3.9 billion to build AI data centers while AWS admits customer data is permanently gone after strikes hit its Middle East sites. Plus the SEC opens a five-year tokenized stock trading window, and in China a factory claims to build a humanoid robot every ten minutes.

  • The Company Betting It Owns AI's Plumbing
  • When the Data Center Gets Bombed
  • Wall Street Gets a Five Year Science Experiment
  • A Robot Every Ten Minutes
  • Teaching Machines to Watch the Sky
Episode 512:44

Apple Wants a Photo That Can Prove Itself

Apple builds a privacy-first way to prove a photo is real. OpenAI is reportedly in talks for funding near a 1.2 trillion dollar valuation. SK Hynix calms a labor fight, and Gujarat police say they found 500,000 fake Gmail accounts tied to bomb hoaxes.

  • A Photo That Can Prove Itself
  • The Trillion Dollar Rumor
  • The Chipmaker That Talked Its Workers Down
  • Half a Million Fake Accounts
  • The Model That Doesn't Talk Back
Episode 313:54

OpenAI Goes For-Profit While Amazon Cuts Deep

OpenAI completes its for-profit conversion with Microsoft's stake locked in, Amazon confirms 30,000 corporate layoffs, Tesla's robotaxi fleet draws a fresh NHTSA probe, and the EU issues its first AI Act fines against Meta and X.

  • The Nonprofit That Wasn't
  • Thirty Thousand Emails
  • Who's Watching the Robotaxi
  • Brussels Sends the Bill
  • Further Than Last Time
Episode 211:34

Xi's AI Pitch and LG's Spy TV Problem

Xi Jinping relaunches China's push for a global AI body, LG's smart TVs get labeled spy TVs by privacy groups, and Anthropic's CEO says AI models are becoming permanent employees while human ones get cut. Plus strained power grids and five fast stories.

  • The AI Club Nobody Elected
  • Your TV Is Taking Notes
  • Tenure for the Machine, Layoffs for the Human
  • The Grid Didn't Sign Up For This
  • The Fix Nobody Asked For