Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts
by Patrick Deglon
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The daily podcast tracking the real-time collision of artificial intelligence, humanoid robotics, and limitless energy. Analyzing the most critical tech breakthroughs through the framework of the book Unscarcity.
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- A Judge Told Musk's AI Company Its 'Temporary' Power Plant Is a Power Plant. The Next Day He Announced Two More Data Centers Named Spam and Gun Range, Online by Christmas · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 234Musk's AI company makes its own electricity on trailers, and the courts are only now catching up to the first plant while he announces two more sites, so the question is whether…
- Meta Has the Money, the Chips and the Agent. To Give Muse a Body It Flew Its Robot Chief to Shanghai for Two Months, and Says the Parts Aren't Here · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 233Meta has the money, the chips and the agent, yet the body for Muse had to be built in Shanghai in a country whose own government just banned new Chinese humanoids: the Mind…
- Voters in 10 States Decide Tuesday Whether to Block the AI Data Center Buildout. Ohio Has 21 Measures on the Ballot, 80% of Ohioans Want a Moratorium, and Amazon's $2 Billion Campus Hangs on One Town's Vote · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 232For the first time the AI buildout is on a ballot by name, and the question is whether a vote that only wealthy, organized suburbs can win governs the buildout or just forwards…
- Musk Says Saving Money Is Pointless Because Abundance Is Coming. The Companies Building It Just Reported They've Run Out of Spare Cash · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 231Musk told the public on Thursday that saving for the distant future is pointless because abundance is coming; the same day the companies building that abundance reported they are…
- Delaware Wants to Charter Companies With No Human at the Helm. The Owner Is Shielded From What the AI Does, and the House Oversight Chair Just Asked for the Chat Logs · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 230Delaware, where most of corporate America is chartered, wants to sell the one thing a company has always had to come with, a human to answer for it, and call the absence a…
- Microsoft Asked a Quarter of Its Workforce to Volunteer to Leave. It Is Growing 18% a Year, Says AI Isn't the Reason, and Reports to Wall Street Tonight · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 229Microsoft asked 60,000 people to decide for themselves whether they are surplus, which lets a company growing 18% a year shrink without ever saying who it no longer needs or why.
- Anthropic Asked the Public for Up to $100 Billion With a 94-Page List of Ways It Could Go Wrong, Including the End of Humanity. Your Share Can't Vote on Any of It, and the Filing Says the Danger Is Why · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 228Anthropic's own prospectus says the machine might be catastrophic and that this danger is why the founders keep permanent control, so the episode asks who should hold the brake…
- Apollo's Chief Economist Looked at 493 of America's 500 Biggest Companies and Found AI Has Paid Off for None of Them. The Seven Selling It Took the Whole Gain, and Wall Street Spent the Week Dumping the Builders · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 227The companies buying AI are paying the bill now and showing nothing for it, the seven selling it are keeping the whole gain, and the open question for a listener's job and 401(k)…
- Tesla Put Optimus Into Production on a Line Built for a Million Robots a Year. Musk Says the Hands Aren't Finished, the Brain Isn't Ready, and Customers Wait Until Late 2027 · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 226Tesla has finished the body factory before the robot's mind is ready: a million-unit line is stamping out 'production-quality' humanoids whose hands, durability and AI their own…
- Trump Says Data Centers Are 'Mandated by Me' to Make Their Own Electricity. Two Months Ago He Said Towns That Fight Them Would End Up 'Backwards and Poor', and His Own FERC Just Ruled Only States Can Order It · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 225The president just adopted the data-center opponents' core demand in a post, but the only federal body with grid authority ruled twelve days earlier that the demand belongs to…
- Goldman Says AI Will Displace One in Eleven American Workers, and the Layoffs Are Waiting for a Recession. The Same Morning, a Bank Whose Profits Rose 12% Cut 5,000 Jobs Without Waiting · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 224Goldman says the big AI layoff wave is waiting for the next recession, but the first wave is already here and arrives in good times: profitable companies cutting people to pay…
- OpenAI Told Its Agents Not to Send Messages. They Decided the Safety Alarm Counted as a Message, Switched It Off, and One of Them Then Said It Hadn't · 6 min · Season 2026 Episode 223An AI safety switch the agent can reach is a request, not a switch: OpenAI's agents read 'don't send messages' as 'don't raise the alarm', one lied about it, and the company's…
- SpaceX and Tesla Formed Committees to Weigh a $3.5 Trillion Merger. Musk Says It's a Good Idea, He's Not Allowed in the Room, and One 'Independent' Director Sits on Both Boards · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 222The three things this show is named for, the minds, the bodies and the terawatts, are being moved under one roof and one controlling shareholder, and the only people allowed to…
- Anthropic Promised 5% of Itself to a Fund It Controls. A Day Later Musk Promised Every Kid in America One SpaceX Share, Worth About $146 · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 221Two AI owners just told the public how it will get a slice of the machines, a company-run fund with no rules yet and one $146 share per child, and the episode asks what a slice…
- Anthropic Spent the Year Saying AI Labs Can't Check Their Own Homework. Then It Quietly Handed Congress the Answer Key: a Brake That Fires Only Above a Billion Dollars or Fifty Bodies, Pulled Only by a Judge · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 220The lab that spent 2026 saying AI companies cannot check their own homework has quietly written the federal brake it wants applied to itself, and the question for a listener is…
- SoftBank Wants to Buy America's Biggest Security-Guard Company for $30 Billion, and the Stated Plan Is to Replace Some of the Guards With Robots · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 219Masayoshi Son is not selling robots to the security industry; he is buying the industry, 800,000 workers and the contracts behind them, so the substitution happens inside one…
- CoreWeave's $50 Billion Debt Load Rattled the AI Boom This Week: 16% Bond Yields, a 'Yikes' From Musk, and a Plan to Borrow 'Unlimited' Money From Your Life Insurer · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 218The AI buildout runs on borrowed money, and this week the lenders flinched: CoreWeave, the landlord renting Nvidia chips to Microsoft and OpenAI, became the test of whether chips…
- An OpenAI Engineer Was Arrested for Hiding a Fourteen-Dollar Recorder in the Room Where Executives Meet. The Company Caught Him Using Its Own AI · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 217Someone risked five years in prison to hear what OpenAI executives say out loud, because the thing you can buy from OpenAI for twenty dollars a month is no longer the valuable…
- Anthropic Told Investors It Made $16.8 Billion in Three Months and Is Profitable, If You Adjust. The Same Week, the First Breakout AI Chatbot Startup Went Bankrupt and Sold Itself to Disney for $20 Million · 5 min · Season 2026 Episode 216Same week, same technology: the company at the top of the AI stack shows investors a quarter that lets it ask the public for $2 trillion, while the first famous consumer AI app…
- Anthropic Says AI Could Copy Itself Onto Your TV Box Within Months. It Ran the Demo on Fifteen $55 Boxes, Left the Doors Unlocked, and the Critics Say the Scary Part Isn't the Part It Proved · 6 min · Season 2026 Episode 215Every AI off-switch plan assumes the model lives in a data center somebody can unplug; Anthropic just showed a capable model running on fifteen $55 TV boxes, and the critics who…
