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Nvidia To Fire Jensen On Wednesday?!
Nvidia To Fire Jensen On Wednesday?!
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Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day... 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.
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- Nvidia To Fire Jensen On Wednesday?! · 30 minI'll explain on the show... AvidXchange is a licensed money transmitter for B2B payments in the United States, licensed as a Money Transmitter by the New York State Department…
- Is Anthropic's IPO Priced to Pop? · 21 minAnthropic 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…
- Who Replaces Jensen Huang? · 21 minTrump 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…
- Jensen's Honeytrap Problem · 24 minJensen 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…
- Is Anthropic’s $1.5T IPO Cracking? · 23 minInvestors 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…
- OpenAI's Most Dangerous Model Yet? · 22 minOpenAI 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…
- Did the Election Just Stall the AI Build-Out? · 21 minDemocrats 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…
- Did Apple's New CEO Fumble His Debut? · 21 minApple 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…
- OpenAI Can't Hit Its Target · 21 minOpenAI 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…
- How Hackers Drained $6.3B From Binance · 22 minOvernight 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…
- A Chinese Spy Inside Nvidia? · 22 minI 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…
- Apple Caves: A Touchscreen Mac · 22 minApple 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…
- Who Inherits Anthropic? · 21 minOpenAI claimed three fresh breakthroughs in math, physics, and computer science — including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false. Apple unveiled the M6 MacBook Pro…
- Anthropic's S-1 Just Dropped! · 25 minAnthropic’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…
- OpenAI Takes a $150B Haircut · 23 minOpenAI 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…
- The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In · 22 minPHP-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…
- Is Musk Merging Tesla and SpaceX? · 22 minEmergency 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…
- Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet · 23 minDeepSeek 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…
- Everyone Wants To Give Back · 21 minElon 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…
- What Is Meta's Muse Spark Open? · 21 minMeta 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…
- Anthropic's Growth Is Slowing · 21 minAnthropic 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…
- OpenAI's Office Was Bugged · 21 minOpenAI 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…
- HomeView · 23 minApple’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…
- Has AI Cooked Gaming? · 22 minAnthropic 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…
- Is Elon Musk Coming For Your Phone Plan? · 23 minFired 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…
- Are AI Labs Trying to Break Encryption? · 22 minScott 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…
- Did OpenAI's Secret Model Just Crack Math? · 20 minOpenAI 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…
- Le Chonk · 22 minNvidia-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…
- Why Did Another OpenAI Safety Insider Quit? · 22 minAn 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…
- Did OpenAI Fire Its Whistleblowers? · 21 minOpenAI 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…
- Is Gemini 4 Argon Just Benchmaxxing? · 22 minGoogle 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…
- Dippin Dots · 20 minTrump 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…
- We Have The Anthropic IPO Numbers · 22 minAnthropic'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…
- Starship Reaches Orbit For The First Time · 22 minNvidia 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…
- Is Copilot Microsoft's Everything App? · 21 minMicrosoft 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…
- Meta Made a Tamagotchi for Its AI · 20 minMeta 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…
- AI Models Just Got Cheaper? · 21 minAnthropic 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…
- Meta Finally Has An AI Hit · 23 minMeta'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…
- The Googlebooks Are Here · 21 minGoogle 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…
- OpenAI Got Hacked By... AI · 22 minSecurity 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…
- Catfished By AI! · 21 minOpenAI disclosed six new AI misalignment incidents, including models hiding their own mistakes, the SEC unveiled a five-year tokenized-stock trading exemption, Zuckerberg, Huang…
- Crypto Takes An "L" In The Senate · 20 minThe 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…
- Trump Says: No Slowdown! · 21 minPresident 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…
- The Great AI Slowdown? · 22 minDario 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…
- It's A Doozy · 20 minAnthropic detailed how it disrupted AI misuse for cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research, OpenAI paused new ChatGPT Pro signups amid Astra demand, AI assistant…
- The Man Who Quit The AI Industry · 23 minResearcher 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…
- The iPhone Duo · 22 minApple 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…
- Did AI Just Solve Math? · 23 minBloomberg 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…
- Tim Cook Ain't Goin Anywhere · 20 minTim 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…
