Episodes
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Is Anthropic's IPO Priced to Pop?
Anthropic is pursuing one of the largest IPOs ever, but its bankers must balance heavy demand for a price above $78 against the risk that an aggressive valuation weakens investor demand.
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Who Replaces Jensen Huang?
The NVIDIA controversy now involves not only Huang’s affair but also questions about whether the company influenced a Commerce Department chip-smuggling investigation involving Megaspeed.
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Jensen's Honeytrap Problem
Nvidia’s board is investigating whether Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang exposed the company or national security to a Chinese intelligence operation, though Huang will continue as CEO during the inquiry.
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Startup Bios Sampler
Hone’s central bet is that AI should receive durable business goals—such as improving retention—then autonomously decide and coordinate the work over weeks or months, rather than merely execute isolated tasks.
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Is Anthropic’s $1.5T IPO Cracking?
The AI trade suffered a major positioning-driven sell-off, with the Nasdaq 100 down 6%, the chip index down 12%, and volatility-control funds expected to sell about $135 billion in equity futures.
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OpenAI's Most Dangerous Model Yet?
OpenAI said it will avoid NDAs in data-center negotiations, disclose community impacts, reduce peak-time power use, return electricity to the grid, and report publicly on its progress.
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Did the Election Just Stall the AI Build-Out?
Data-center moratorium pledges in Texas, Georgia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania could delay or cancel AI infrastructure, with Texas alone exposing about 13 gigawatts of planned capacity.
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Did Apple's New CEO Fumble His Debut?
Apple beat revenue and sales-growth expectations, but unprecedented memory costs and a weaker margin outlook mattered more to investors than the strong quarter.
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OpenAI Can't Hit Its Target
OpenAI reduced its latest fundraising target from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation to roughly $20 billion at $1.25 trillion after investors pulled back during the AI sell-off.
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How Hackers Drained $6.3B From Binance
Binance says hackers stole $6.3 billion, about $3 billion was frozen by Tether, Circle, and other firms, and the exchange intends to cover the remaining losses with SAFU and company reserves.
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A Chinese Spy Inside Nvidia?
The New York Times reported that U.S. officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset who allegedly used her relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to pass information to Beijing; Nvidia denied that her customer interactions involved sensitive or national-security information.
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Apple Caves: A Touchscreen Mac
Apple’s new MacBook Pro reverses nearly two decades of resistance to touchscreens, despite Steve Jobs calling touch Macs “ergonomically terrible” and Tim Cook comparing a laptop-tablet combination to “merging a fridge and a toaster.”
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Who Inherits Anthropic?
OpenAI claims that a new algorithm refutes the Exponential Time Hypothesis, an assumption used in hundreds of computer-science and related research papers, but independent experts still need to verify and explain the result.
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Anthropic's S-1 Just Dropped!
Anthropic’s first-half revenue reached $16.3 billion, up 14-fold year over year, but its filing also showed an $80.7 billion loss, including a one-time $72.4 billion convertible-note charge.
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OpenAI Takes a $150B Haircut
OpenAI is reportedly seeking up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, below the $1.4 trillion valuation it recently pitched, as investors show less enthusiasm and wait for clearer IPO signals.
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The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In
The PHP vulnerabilities, though responsibly disclosed by AI research, highlight the urgency for immediate patching, as hackers now have the tools to exploit these flaws more easily.
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Is Musk Merging Tesla and SpaceX?
PHP vulnerabilities, leaked before official disclosure, pose a serious threat given PHP's widespread use on the web.
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Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet
DeepSeek’s open-sourcing of DeepInfer aims to make AI inference more affordable and transparent by sharing production techniques.
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Everyone Wants To Give Back
Elon Musk’s plan to give a SpaceX share to every American child in 2027 would entail gifting roughly $10.5 billion worth of stock, making it a historic and unprecedented transfer of wealth.
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What Is Meta's Muse Spark Open?
Meta’s Muse Spark Open is a highly capable open-weight AI model with 816 billion parameters, designed for coding and long-term agent work, and supports prompts combining text with images, audio, or video.
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