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Episodes
February 17, 2026 • 21 mins
The big regulatory guns are out for Grok. Memory chip shortage now hit the Steam Deck. Manus is already coming to your favorite messaging app. Turns out Buy Now Pay Later really works for vacations. And another lengthy AI essay, this time detailing what it’s doing, and has the potential to do to SaaS companies.
EU privacy watchdog opens probe into Elon Musk’s X over sexualised AI images (FT)
Valve’s Steam Deck OLED will be...
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February 16, 2026 • 20 mins
OpenClaw’s creator is joining OpenAI, but the OpenClaw project lives on. The AI-caused memory shortage might delay the next Playstation. Is the Pentagon about to cut ties with Anthropic? And Vitalik Buterin is growing concerned with the prediction markets.
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI (The Verge)
Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point. (Implicator.AI)
Rampant AI Demand for ...
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February 14, 2026 • 52 mins
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February 13, 2026 • 19 mins
Anthropic raises the second largest financing round of all time. Other AI players are beginning to show hockey stick revenue growth. Meta wants to add facial recognition to its glasses. Ring pulls back from some recognition partnerships for its camera. And, of course, your Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups (CNBC)
Enterprise AI startup Cohere...
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February 12, 2026 • 21 mins
Aaannddd…. Right on time here come the Chinese AI models. Elon Musk kicks off a major reorg of xAI. Google is warning of AI distillation attacks. New Waymo cars hit the road. And another interesting AI essay to read to you.
Chinese AI startup Zhipu releases new flagship model GLM-5 (Reuters)
Musk announces xAI re-org following co-founder departures, SpaceX merger (CNBC)
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factor...
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February 11, 2026 • 21 mins
Forget the ChatGPT moment, is this the “Covid Moment” for AI, the moment when everything has changed its just that not everyone knows it yet? More weird musical chairs at the AI companies. TikTok but for around the block. And do we finally have a universal translator but for phone calls?
Something Big Is Happening (Matt Shumer)
OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination (WSJ)
TikTok ...
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February 10, 2026 • 19 mins
So, have you hit the ads in ChatGPT yet, cause they’re there. Spotify comes out of nowhere with killer good earnings. The coming tidal wave of Chinese AI launches. The coming deluge of social media trials. And does AI usage reduce the amount of work you do, or actually compound it?
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT (Mashable)
Spotify Shares Surge After Adding Record Number of New Users (Bloomberg)
Alibaba, Tencent, ...
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February 9, 2026 • 20 mins
Sam Altman assures staff that OpenAI has a good week, but is Anthropic definitively growing faster at this point? Is the CapEx spend about to eat ALL of Silicon Valley’s free cashflow while Apple sits out the party? And the Crypto.com guy runs the same playbook but now with Ai.com.
Sam Altman touts ChatGPT’s reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding (CNBC)
How Capex Ramp Up Will Squeez...
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February 6, 2026 • 22 mins
Claude Opus 4.6 arrives to crown Anthropic’s very good week, at least, for them it was good. You thought tech was spending big to build out for AI, but this week we’ve seen how big. Crypto seems to have really hit a sharp bear market. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, tv piracy is back, baby!
Anthropic Releases New Model That’s Adept at Financial Research (Bloomberg)
Anthropic debuts new model with hopes to corner ...
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February 5, 2026 • 23 mins
Alphabet earnings. Claude goes to the Superbowl. Why AI brand loyalty isn’t even remotely a thing yet. And is the whole Marc Andreessen theory of software eating the world in the process of being eaten by AI? Wall Street is worried about that very scenario.
Google set to double AI spending to $185bn after strong earnings (FT)
OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents (The Verge)
Anthropic says ‘Cla...
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February 4, 2026 • 43 mins
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February 3, 2026 • 21 mins
As SpaceX acquires xAI, all of Elon’s companies under one umbrella is pretty much an inevitability isn’t it? What is with this weird game of chicken that Nvidia and OpenAI and now Oracle are all engaging in all of the sudden. And self-driving cars are about to be ubiquitous, indication number 37.
Musk’s SpaceX Combines With xAI at $1.25 Trillion Valuation (Bloomberg)
SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite...
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February 2, 2026 • 21 mins
Is Nvidia going through with their massive OpenAI investment or not? Does Apple have what it takes to win in the AI era or not? Is Elon the only one who can make datacenters in space happen or not? And a roundup of the continued fascination with Moltbook.
The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice (WSJ)
Nvidia CEO Says New OpenAI Investment May Be Largest Yet (Bloomberg)
Apple’s Historic Quarter Does...
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January 30, 2026 • 21 mins
Apple does a big acquisition. OpenAI is racing to IPO. Elon
might just merge all his companies into one. Google’s Project Genie is the
latest thing that will make you say, gee, AI can do that?! And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Apple buys Israeli start-up Q.AI for close to $2bn in race to build AI devices (FT)
OpenAI Plans Fourth-Quarter IPO in Race to Beat Anthropic to Market (WSJ)
SpaceX in merger ta...
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January 29, 2026 • 22 mins
Meta earnings good. The street like the AI spending. Microsoft earnings bad. Why is growth in their cloud business not as robust all of the sudden? Elon is following through on taking Tesla all in on robots and AI. The AI inspired layoffs are NOT just for the tech industry. And are you actually technical enough to run that Clawdbot?
Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 (TechCrunch)
Microsof...
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January 28, 2026 • 20 mins
The Amazon layoffs showed up on schedule. Is Tether behind the rise in the price of gold? A new type of privacy screen tech from Samsung. Elon wants to IPO on his birthday. Anthropic raises more ahead of its IPO. And AI is finding weird stuff in Space.
Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees (TechCrunch)
Tether Is Shaking Up the Gold Market With Massive Metal Hoard (Bloomberg)
Samsung confirms Galaxy S26's insane...
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January 27, 2026 • 20 mins
I think we have to gird ourselves for a slew of Chinese AI releases in the coming weeks. Are AI inspired layoffs poised to sweep the tech industry? Meta goes with subscriptions. Uber wants to train AI for others. And Dario Amodei has a pretty stark warning about AI.
China’s Moonshot Unveils AI Model Ahead of DeepSeek Release (Bloomberg)
Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce in push toward AI roles and teams (CNBC)
TikT...
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January 26, 2026 • 21 mins
Did you even notice that new TikTok privacy policy over the weekend? AirTags finally have a second generation. Microsoft confirms it will give out your BitLocker recovery keys if you’re silly enough to store them with them. And let me introduce you to Clawdbot. Since you can’t see the spelling, you won’t understand how this is different until I explain.
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Bi...
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January 23, 2026 • 20 mins
Ok, ok, maybe the whole TikTok thing is a done deal at long last? Amazon is planning another major round of layoffs. Are Epic Games and Google doing an end-run around the judge? Capital One acquires Brex. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Trump’s TikTok deal is a gift to China (FT)
Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week, sources say (Reuters)
Epic and Google have a secret $...
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January 22, 2026 • 20 mins
Apple is developing their own AI wearable, the size of an AirTag. Anthropic overhauls Claude’s constitution. South Korea is the latest place to ride the AI rocket ship. And I think I know why your boss thinks AI is the solution to everything: it’s the solution to all of the work THEY have to do.
Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin (The Information)
Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that it...
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