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CES Day Two
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia launches its next chip platform. AMD says, hey, us too! Also, did you know Nvidia is building self-driving car platforms? Did you know Dell is ...
CES Day 1
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Coming to you live from Las Vegas with the first of the CES madness. More signs that insider betting on prediction markets is going to become somethin...
Manus, The Hands Of Fate
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More on Manus, who they are, how they got positioned to sell, and more on what Meta wants to do with them. Open AI is paying employees more than anyon...
The End Of Year M&A Rush
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This flurry of M&A deals at the end of the year (I have another one to tell you about) are people getting out while the getting is good, or is this ju...
Nvidia Kindacquires Groq
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia kindaquires Groq I’ll tell you what we think the strategy is here. A shot across my bow that CES is next week. Accountants shut down remote t...
(BNS) The Story Of Toys R Us
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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(BNS) Top Tech Stories Of 2025 With The Newsworthy
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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New Tech Trade War
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, turns out my spidey sense was right cause there definitely seems to be a new tech trade war brewing between the US and Europe. Seems like ads ar...
Drone Ban
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I hope you weren’t expecting Santa to leave a drone under the tree this week. Europe is forcing Apple to pair nicely with others. More signs of the ...
Blackouts Take Waymo Out
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turns out when the lights go out, Waymo’s don’t handle that well. Larry Ellison actually puts his money on the line. Somebody is pirating music li...
TikTok Sold (Again) (?)
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has TikTok finally been sold, episode number 47… The Pennsylvania supreme court says police don’t need a warrant to read your search history. YouT...
China’s EUV Machine?
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has China cracked a major puzzle for chip parity? Trump Media merges with a… Fusion Energy startup? Coinbase continues its efforts to let you trade ...
Now It’s Amazon’s Turn To Invest In OpenAI
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT ups its image generation game. Now it’s Amazon’s turn to invest in OpenAI. WBD says it still wants to go with the Netflix offer. Waymo’s...
The Pivot To AI Datacenters
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tech continues to be a major geopolitical stumbling block, this time with the UK. Are we currently in the midst of the second mini-tech recession of t...
The Roomba Hits The Wall
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your Roomba is circling the drain with iRobot filing for bankruptcy. Remember credit default swaps? Turns out they’re not just for hedging housing a...
GPT-5.2 As OpenAI’s Attempt To Change The Narrative
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ok, fine, says Sam, here’s a new GPT model so you’ll hopefully stop saying we’re behind. Broadcom as another AI bellwether. Now that Disney is i...
Disney Invests In OpenAI
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disney signs a blockbuster deal to license characters to OpenAI AND invest $1 billion dollars in the company. Oracle as the new bellwether for thinkin...
Algorithmic Pricing?
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Instagram is giving you some control over your algorithm. Is Instacart using algorithmic pricing? SpaceX thinks it will be worth $1.5 trillion. Has De...
Nvidia Back In China… Maybe
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump says Nvidia and others can ship chips to China, but the question is, will China take delivery. OpenAI is ending the code red in about a month, a...
Netflix Faces Hostility
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Looks like that big Netflix bid for Warner Brothers isn’t gonna go smoothly as Paramount launching a hostile counter-bid. We’ve got a full-on exec...
The Albanian Army Wins!
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turns out the Albanian army was triumphant as Netflix is buying HBO (and WBD’s studios). The NYT is suing Perplexity. Man, everybody is heading for ...
Meta To Abandon The Metaverse?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the one hand, Meta poached Apple’s design head in a major coup to make hardware and software for AI, but there are signs Zuck is souring on the M...
Not Great, Bob!
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We might soon have the first big IPO of the AI era, and it doesn’t look like it will be OpenAI. Amazon takes another few swings at Nvidia’s domina...
Sam Altman Declares A “Code Red”
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Altman declares a “Code Red” for OpenAI. All hands on deck. Molly, you in danger, girl, to quote Oda Mae Brown from the movie Ghost. Long term...
Is Nvidia In Trouble?
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While Runway releases a new video model, let me break down the big analysis piece that had everyone concern trolling about Nvidia over the weekend. Wh...
(BNS) Susan Lyne Part 2
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're back again with Susan Lyne, to talk about running Martha Stewart's company when Martha went to prison, her startup career with Gilt Groupe, and ...
(BNS) Susan Lyne Part 1
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve maybe never interviewed anyone in my entire time as a historian and podcaster who has had a career as broad and varied as Susan Lyne. Yes, I ob...
Polymarket Is Street Legal
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump has a plan to boost AI innovation. Polymarket is now street legal in the US. Google thinks it needs to double AI capacity every 6 months. Is Sta...
Is OpenAI In Trouble?
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Now Anthropic says it’s leapfrogged OpenAI with its new model and is the AI horserace in play? OpenAI is still focusing on things like shopping. Nvi...
Where Does That X Account Live?
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What sort of a world do we live in if you can’t be sure where an X account comes from? Google isn’t out of the woods yet when it comes to antitrus...
The iOS Walls Are Crumbling In The Garden
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google phone users can now work with Airdrop on the iPhone cause Google cleverly found a way. Google might have jumped ahead in the AI race and Sam Al...
Who Gets To Regulate AI?
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we about to have a battle over who gets to regulate AI? Now there’s Nano Banana Pro. The creator ecosystem is exploding for advertisers. Battlef...
Gemini 3, And Meta Beats The Government
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tons of things today. Google’s new Gemini 3 model. Signs the “second tier” of AI startups is starting to get product market fit. The EU has anno...
The Bloodbath In Crypto
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happened with Cloudflare this morning. Grok’s new model wants to be creative. Catching you up on the bloodbath in crypto if you were unaware. D...
Jeff Bezos To Be A CEO Again
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Bezos is going to be a CEO once again. Could Tim Cook step down from Apple’s CEO position in a matter of months? Maybe don’t buy an AI teddy ...
(Portfolio Profile) Hypercubic.AI
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A portfolio profile episode of Hypercubic.ai, a seed-stage company that wants to not only preserve knowledge in legacy code, but legacy knowledge in e...
OpenAI Enters The Group Chat
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI is testing out group chats as a sort of collaborative prompting experience. The hyperscalers are lining up against Nvidia in one specific arena...
Valve Takes On Consoles And VR
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Valve is taking on gaming consoles and creating a new type of VR headset, all at the same time. GPT-5 gets “warmer.” Cursor’s new raise means it...
Text-To-World AI Models
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forget text-to-video AI, we’re rapidly moving into the text-to-world-generating AI models. What if you showed up to your Airbnb and the fridge was a...
The iPhone Air Isn’t Selling
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The iPhone Air isn’t selling, and it isn’t selling to the degree that Apple is delaying the next version. Yan LeCun is gonna strike out on his own...
GDPR To Be Defanged?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the EU about to pull back on tech regulation because they are feeling FOMO about AI? Is the whole initial COIN offering craze about to come back? I...
(BNS) Jimmy Wales
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Elon’s $1T Deal
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon’s $1T payday… nice deal if you can get it. The lawsuits against OpenAI are exploding. The new Grand Theft Auto gets delayed (again). Now the ...
Gemini To Power The New Siri?
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apple is probably going to let Gemini power the new Siri, at least for a while. Does OpenAI want the government to backstop its AI buildout? And two n...
Google and Epic Settle
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google and Epic Games settle their beef. Ripple wants to claim the stablecoin crown. Hyperscalers are about to claim the power generation equivalent t...
Nobody Cares About AI Ads?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apple brings the App Store to the web. When the cyber white hats turn black hat. Jensen didn’t get what he really wants from Trump. Coca-Cola says n...
Another Day, Another OpenAI Deal
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, another day, another OpenAI deal, but this is their big move to get in bed with AWS. More monitoring of the moment prediction markets are having...
(BNS) Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sanjay Poonen, CEO of Cohesity, discusses the strategic acquisition of Veritas' data protection business, emphasizing the benefits for customers and t...
Amazon Didn’t Scare Investors
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon didn’t scare investors this Halloween. They’re quite pleased, actually. They’re not public but we now know how much money OpenAI lost thi...
Wall Street: Spend! (But Not Too Much…)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three big tech earnings reports give a mixed message. Wall Street wants you to spend on the AI buildout, but not too much, and maybe not you, Meta. So...
Nvidia $5T
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia announced a whole bunch of things yesterday and that sent their market cap above $5 trillion for the first time. Grammarly rebrands as Superhum...
OpenAI Has Gone For-Profit
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has officially done its whole reorg to for-profit thing. Amazon is cutting a metric ton of employees and its blaming AI. Elon launches Grokpedi...
Forget AI, The Counter-Strike Bubble Just Burst
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did Microsoft use dark patterns to charge more for AI? The tech angle to that whole NBA gambling scandal. Forget the AI bubble, the Counter-Strike bub...
(BNS) Baratunde Thurston
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Baratunde Thurston shares his journey from a tech-savvy upbringing to becoming a prominent voice in comedy and digital media. Baratunde reflects on hi...
(BNS) Hugging Face Founder Clément Delangue
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Clem discusses his journey from early computing experiences to founding Hugging Face, emphasizing the importance of community, collaboration, and open...
OpenAI’s Browser: ChatGPT Atlas
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just two stories. First, OpenAI launches a web browser, ChatGPT Atlas. What it does, and why are they doing it. Then, Samsung has made a cheaper Visio...
C’mon Apple, Buy HBO!
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
HBO Max might be on the market and I want Apple to buy it! Coinbase is on an acquisition tear. Is the Amazon job apocalypse nigh? Is OpenAI plotting t...
The Winners Of The AI Boom You Never Thought About
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big AWS outage took down half the internet overnight. X wants you to be able to snap up dormant or desirable X handles. Blackwell chips look like they...
Skills For Claude As A New AI Paradigm?
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do Skills for Claude represent a new sort of user paradigm for AI? Battlefield 6 seems to be doing what EA needs it to do. Nintendo seems to be killin...
A $300 Trillion Oopsie
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So, a huge, huge, like bigger than the entire world’s GDP fat finger episode in the world of stablecoins. Zuck has poached another one from Apple. P...
M5 Chips Are Here
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The new Apple M5 chips are here, and I’ll tell you what devices got them and what they can do. ChatGPT wants to allow you to have sexy time. Waymo i...
Sam Altman’s Financial Engineering
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Dutch government has taken control of a Dutch chipmaker that had Chinese owners. Yet another big OpenAI deal, this time with Broadcom. The first A...
(BNS) Jennifer Hyman Of Rent The Runway
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jenn Hyman shares her journey from early influences of entrepreneurship to founding Rent the Runway. She discusses the impact of the internet on her c...
China’s Getting Tetchy Again
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China is stirring the pot on the tech trade wars once again. Sora has grown faster than even ChatGPT did. Is OpenAI now better at vibe coding than Ant...
Intel Punches Back
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Intel tries to punch its way back to relevancy with the release of Panther Lake, the first chip built on its 18A process. Is Cursor so successful it’...
The AI Concern Committee Is Back
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More on the circular nature of the recent AI deals. AI now accounts for more debt issuance than US banks. AI companies consider using the billions the...
OpenAI Wants To Be The Windows Of AI
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Forget building apps on TOP of ChatGPT, now they’ve put the apps INSIDE of ChatGPT. Why this is a play for ChatGPT to become the Windows of the AI e...
OpenAI’s Big AMD Deal
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another huge OpenAI deal, this time with AMD. The huge amount of chips Elon is buying for his Colossus II. It’s not just compute! How the AI boom is...
(BNS) How Snowflake Wrote The GTM Playbook
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Make It Snow is Snowflake’s go-to-market playbook, told by longtime CRO Chris Degnan and CMO Denise Persson. The central idea: sales and marketing m...
Apple Blocks ICEBlock
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Apple removes an app after the DOJ asked them to. People are using AI, but which AI are they actually paying for? Sora is now the number one app in al...
Apple To Bench The Vision Pro?
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More fallout from the Sora explosion, including my take on using it. OpenAI is now officially the biggest startup in the galaxy. We now know what Mira...
Sora, Sora, Sora
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why Sora is all anyone can talk about, both the new social network and the new AI model. Satya Nadella is still Microsoft’s CEO but he’s taken som...
Amazon’s Hardware Event
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All the headline’s from Amazon’s fall hardware event. Daniel Ek is stepping back from Spotify. A new Claude model. ChatGPT gets into the shopping ...
EA Taken Private
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest sign yet of the state of the gaming industry, EA is being taken private. DeepSeek’s new model might start a new AI price war. OpenAI ann...
(BNS) You're Not Killing It. Nobody Is Killing It. VC Legend Jerry Colonna
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the very first VCs of the Internet Era, and especially the NYC tech ecosystem, Jerry Colonna reflects on his journey from growing up in New Yor...
Is TikTok US Only Worth $14B?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe… the TikTok thing has finally reached a resolution. Again. Maybe Amazon owes us all some money. Maybe that Neon app from yesterday was a bad i...
Get Paid To Train AI On Your Phone Calls?
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another lawsuit against OpenAI, this time from xAI. Intel approached Apple about bailing them out. What if crypto was reversable so you could recover ...
The AI Incentives Game
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stargate gets off the ground, or at least, announces it is. What if OpenAI leases the chips from Nvidia instead of buying them. I go a bit deep in thi...
Ouroboros All The Way Down?
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia is investing $100B in OpenAI, and there are a billion angles to that fact, so get ready to dive into it. Why were there giant sim farms popping...
TikTok Deals? Visa Rules?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, I THINK a TikTok deal is happening, so updates on that. Why lots of folk in the tech industry are worried about new H-1B visa rules. Might...
(BNS) Datadog Founder Olivier Pomel
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m joined by Olivier Pomel, cofounder/CEO of Datadog. We trace his path from French open-source tinkerer to NYC founder, the dev-vs-ops frict...
(CORRECT) OpenAI’s Hardware Plans Worry Apple
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(Sorry about the editing error earlier) Nvidia is investing in self-driving AI tech. Google has given up the ghost and is making Chrome a full AI too...
Nvidia And Intel Get Together
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has Intel found the big customer for its Foundry that it needs to survive? The big tie up with Nvidia announced this morning. All the announces from M...
Nvidia In Trouble In China Again
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The framework of a TikTok deal is finally coming together. Nvidia suffers another major setback in China. Bunch of new AI stuff from YouTube. A coming...
Meta Smartglasses Leak
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Looks like we’re going to be getting new Meta smartglasses later this week. OpenAI wants to up its AI for coding game. Is the whole TikTok saga fina...
Gemini’s Suddenly The #1 App In All The Land
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nano Banana is such a hit that Gemini is suddenly ahead of ChatGPT, at least if we’re measuring by the app store. Lots of interesting new data about...
(BNS) John Borthwick Of Betaworks
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Borthwick on Betaworks shares his journey from a tech-savvy youth to a prominent figure in the New York City tech scene. He discusses his early e...
OpenAI And Microsoft Make Up And Make Nice?
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI and Microsoft say they have ironed out their differences… tentatively. Not officially. I’ll explain why that is interesting. With new FDA c...
Oh THAT $300B Contract With OpenAI…
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well we now know one of the big contracts that sent Oracle shares flying. OpenAI of course. We have another IPO pop. YouTube videos now have multilang...
Is Oracle The New Nvidia?
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Ellison becomes the richest person in all the land! Is Oracle the new Nvidia? Spotify finally delivers on lossless audio. Robinhood is going to ...
The iPhone Air
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All the headlines from the iPhone event earlier today, including the new iPhone Air. The judge isn’t happy with Anthropic’s $1.5 B payday to autho...
Does Anthropic Owe Me $3000?
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion dollars to authors of books that might have trained their AI. Would my book qualify for some of that money? A...
(BNS) Tech:NYC CEO Julie Samuels
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Samuels shares her journey from a journalism major to a prominent figure in the tech advocacy space, detailing her experiences at NCSA, her work...
Now OpenAI Wants To Find You A Job
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the, this wasn’t on my bingo card file, OpenAI has launched a sort of job board? Why Broadcom might become Nvidia’s big rival. Is AI image ge...
Never Got Flying Cars, But We Do Have An Instagram iPad App, Finally
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Gurman lays out how Apple intends to jump into AI search as soon as this Spring. You’ll never guess who’s one of the biggest players in quant...
The Takeaways From The Google Antitrust Remedies
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google whistles past the graveyard with the remedy ruling on its antitrust case. OpenAI makes a big acquisition. Anthropic has a big new raise and a h...
Trump’s Big Crypto Debut
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump family’s big new crypto coin makes its debut. OpenAI outlines new safety guardrails. Dolby announces its biggest new TV tech in years. Say...
(BNS) The Bradley Tusk Interview
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Bradley Tusk discusses his unique career at the intersection of politics and technology. He shares insights from his early exper...
China Might Not Need US Chips For Long
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China continues to show signs that it might not need American AI chips much longer. A weird story about that big recent Tesla trial ruling. Look, AI b...
Nvidia Earnings And Nano Banana
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia’s earnings are ok, but maybe showing signs of normalizing. Copilot for your TV. A blockchain for your cloud. I catch you up on that whole Nan...