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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...
The First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against OpenAI
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI. The continuing saga of what the heck is going on over at Meta AI? Is “vibe hacking” the bi...
xAI Sues Apple And OpenAI
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk is taking his beef with Sam Altman AND Tim Apple to court. The Trump administration could sanction EU officials over the Digital Services Ac...
Uncle Sam’s Intel Stake
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government has indeed taken a stake in Intel. Apple might turn to Google to save Siri. Meta turns to Midjourney. Perplexity wants to cut publisher...
Has China Shut The Door On Nvidia?
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We talked recently about how Nvidia wasn’t home free in China just yet, and low and behold, they’re stopping H20 chip production over Chinese conc...
Now Meta Has Frozen AI Hiring
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is going on at Meta AI story number 77. A deeper look at that new chip that Google unveiled with the Pixel phones yesterday and what that could s...
The Pixel 10 Smartphone Unveiling
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All the headlines from the Made By Google event where we saw the new Pixel 10 lineup and the 4th gen Pixel Watch. We have a release date for those new...
Chamath Is Back In The Arena
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Masa Son is investing $2B into Intel, and the Uncle Sam might join in as well. Small AI models continue to have a moment. Chamath is reentering the ar...
Meta’s Smart Headware Push
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta is readying smartglasses with a display, but also, a look at their theoretical and prototype roadmap for the future of headware hardware generall...
AI Business Bigger Than The Smartphone Business?
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will the US government take a stake in Intel? Why was Meta letting spicy conversation happen with their AI bots? What does it mean if Foxconn’s AI b...
Thu. 08/14 – An Apple Pixar Lamp?
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York is suing Zelle. Another IPO pop has me raising my eyebrows. Maybe Perplexity really was serious, at least about getting a browser. Does Apple...
Wed. 08/13 – Perplexity Wants To Acquire Chrome
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome, but how serious are they? Fine, says OpenAI, have your GPT-4o back. Are AI companions the next breakout AI busine...
Tue. 08/12 – Elon To Sue Apple To Get At Sam?
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elon says he might take legal action against Apple, but it’s probably his beef with Sam Altman rearing its head once again. A long piece looking at ...
Mon. 08/11 – Nvidia To Pay The Government To Sell In China
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia and AMD are paying the US government 15% of revenue to sell AI chips to China. Remember how with GPT-5, they took away the old models? Well, th...
(BNS) Could AI Spending Blow Up The Economy? With Paul Kedrosky
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke with the great Paul Kedrosky to discuss the significant impact of AI capital expenditure (CapEx) on the economy, exploring how it contributes ...
Fri. 08/08 – GPT-5 Fallout
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tracking the fallout and implications from GPT-5’s rollout yesterday. Why is Google’s AI chatbot filled with self-loathing and recrimination? Are ...
Thu. 07/08 – GPT-5 Released
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All the news around the big unveiling of GPT-5. President Trump calls on the CEO of Intel to “resign immediately.” Also, the threat of 100% tariff...
Wed. 08/06 – OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Disney is making big streaming moves with the new ESPN app and a revamp to Hulu. Then, it’s all basically AI announces. OpenAI’s new open-weight m...
Tue 08/05 – Spygate At TSMC?
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TSMC has fired employees for allegedly attempting to pilfer information on their 2nm tech. Figma could have raised more money in its IPO but chose not...
Mon. 08/04 – The AI Researcher Who Turned Down $1.5 Billion From Zuck
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robotaxies are coming to Europe. Apple wants Answers. Literally. The AI researcher who turned down a billion and a half dollars. How the vibe seems to...
Fri. 08/01 – Tech IPO’s Are Back On The Menu, Boys…
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it looks like Tech IPO’s might be back on the menu because Figma’s first day pop was like the good old days. Anthropic seems to be getting t...
Thu. 07/31 – Microsoft Joins The $4 Trillion Club
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft and Meta earnings suggest AI is paying off so far, at least for the big guys. Has OpenAI’s revenues tripled so far in 2025? Devs are using...
Wed. 07/30 – The Real Money In AI Video Is In Robotics?
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Age verification for web users is sweeping the globe. ChatGPT debuts a study mode for students. What, exactly is Zuckerberg trying to achieve by hirin...
Tue. 07/29 – Do You Need To Cut Back On Your AI Usage?
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sony says Tencent has ripped off one of their biggest games. Microsoft wants to get ahead of the whole AI browser thing. Are rate limits coming for AI...
Mon. 07/28 – Tea Has Been Spilt
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Samsung’s foundry business gets a shot in the arm from Tesla. Zuck’s hiring spree nabs a Chat GPT creator. Anthropic is raising and leveling up in...
Fri. 07/25 – GPT-5 In Two Weeks?
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could Intel exit the high-end chip game entirely? Why are public companies loading up on crypto? GPT-5 is probably coming in a matter of weeks. What i...
Thu. 07/24 – The US AI Action Plan
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The White House has rolled out its big AI Action Plan. Google reported earnings but really wanted you to know about consumer adoption of its AI. A new...
Wed. 07/28 – Don’t Sleep On That SharePoint Exploit
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t sleep on that SharePoint exploit from earlier this week as it seems to have led to a ton of still active breaches. Apple has a new insurance p...
Tue. 07/22 – Is Masa Son Being Left Behind In AI Again?
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, just like that, AI’s winning the Math Olympiad is commonplace. Is Stargate struggling to get off the ground, or is Sam Altman just going to do...
Mon. 07/21 – Massive SharePoint Zero-Day
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Serious zero-day has been uncovered that is affecting everybody all around the world. There is a patch tho. Mark Gurman dishes on the foldable iPhone....
(BNS) Leap Labs
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To find out more about Leap Labs go to Leap-Labs.com The white paper is here. Blog is here (with case studies). To get in touch with them: hello@l...
Fri. 07/18 – ChatGPT Agent
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI has a new agent that can control your entire computer. You might soon be able to put crypto in your 401k. Why is Apple suing a prominent YouTub...
Thu. 07/17 – AI Pricing
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TSMC earnings suggest the AI buildout is continuing apace. Stablecoin regulation clears a major hurdle. Is Anthropic doing well growing revenue? Maybe...
Wed. 07/16 – Jensen Gets Bullish
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jensen is feeling his oats after the reprieve on China, spilling lots of tea about where he see the AI industry. OpenAI is going after the office and ...