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In today's episode: The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barrier...

In today's episode: Sources: Trump delayed signing the AI EO because “he just hates regulation”; there were questions about the EO giving the Treasury Department a leading role Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of...

In today's episode: SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX; Elon Musk's shares give him 85.1% of the voting power in the company SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B per month through May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it is expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $81.62B, above $78...

In today's episode: Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repositories were breached a...

In today's episode: Musk v. Altman: the jury unanimously rejects Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI and Sam Altman, as he filed them outside of a three-year statute of limitations Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says the judge and jury “never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality” and he will file an appeal Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut a...

In today's episode: Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs In his weekly Linux kernel post, Linus Torvalds says “AI tools are great” but duplicate bug reports have made the security list “almost entirely unmanageable” Samsung's shares jumped as much as 6.7% after the company re...

In today's episode: Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-...

In today's episode: Filings: YouTube, Snap, and TikTok reached agreements to settle a lawsuit set for trial in June over claims social media addiction disrupted students' learning OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strateg...

In today's episode: Sources: OpenAI is weighing legal action against Apple after expectations that ChatGPT's Siri integration would generate billions in revenue fell short Google confirms it's testing a new storage policy after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get only 5GB of free storage unless they add a phone number Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a mac...

In today's episode: Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, above $15.56B est., raises its FY2026 AI orders forecast, and is cutting ~4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 19%+ pre-market Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letti...

In today's episode: Google unveils Googlebook, its new laptop lineup featuring a unified OS merging ChromeOS and Android, with devices from Dell, HP, and others coming this fall Google unveils Gemini Intelligence, bundling existing and new Gemini features, including task automation across apps and letting users vibe code Android widgets Google says Chromebooks will get support through their “exist...

In today's episode: Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese-made cellular modules, as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats Instructure reaches a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas...

In today's episode: Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M Circle raised $222M via the presale of its native Arc token at a $3B valuation; a16z led with a $75M investment, with participation from BlackRock and others Microsoft's Playground Games accidentally uploads unencrypted pr...

In today's episode: FCC passed an anti-robocall proposal requiring telecoms, including VoIP providers, to verify user identities before activating service, raising privacy fears Executives at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens Experian says 40% of the 5,000 data breaches it serviced in 202...

In today's episode: Sources: Apple and Intel have reached a formal deal in recent months for Intel to manufacture some chips for Apple devices; INTC closes up 13.93% EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use “a loophole in the legislation that needs closing” Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their...

In today's episode: Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 to $500, up from $450, globally from September 1, and offers a downbeat performance outlook for 2026 Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and...

In today's episode: SpaceXAI signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; Musk called Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic” Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use “all of the...

In today's episode: Source: Anthropic plans to spend ~$200B on Google's Cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” that Google disclosed last week Sources and a document: Google is testing a “personal agent” codenamed Remy in the Gemini app that integrates with Google services to take actions for users Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting dis...

In today's episode: Sources: the Trump administration is discussing an EO to create an AI working group to examine AI oversight procedures, including vetting models before release Sources: Apple held exploratory talks with Intel and Apple executives visited a Samsung plant in Texas to explore producing core chips for its devices in the US Letter: UK-based Google DeepMind workers voted to unionize...

In today's episode: GameStop makes an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay after building a ~5% stake, offering $125/share in cash and stock, a 20% premium on May 1 closing price Cerebras seeks a valuation of up to $26.62B in its US IPO, aiming to raise $3.5B by selling 28M shares at $115 to $125 apiece in its second attempt to go public Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in...

In today's episode: Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building...

In today's episode: Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing AI models for robots; Assured Robot Intelligence's team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading t...

In today's episode: Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $111.18B, vs. $109.66B est., net income up 19% to $29.6B, and authorizes an additional $100B share buyback program Tim Cook says iPhone sales, which slightly missed Q2 estimates, were held back by chip supply constraints, as “demand was off the charts” Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates, with sales expected to rise between 14% and...

In today's episode: Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a “fool” for backing OpenAI, accusing Altman and Brockman of manipulating him into donating tens of millions of dollars Microsoft says Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was $34.68B, vs. $34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services up 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M+ seats Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $82.9B, net income...

In today's episode: Musk v. Altman: the US district judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom” YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023 Sources: the White House is developing rules for government a...