Marcus Vorwaller

IMPULSE

Technology EN ↓ 52 episodes

A daily map of how AI is changing markets, institutions, labor, science, medicine, geopolitics, robotics, media, education, and the open-versus-closed model fight.

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Marcus Vorwaller

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NEO Ships With a Pilot Inside, Iran's Two-Month Blackout, and the Resume Bot Knows Its Own Handwriting 03.05.2026 11:29

America's first vertically integrated humanoid robot factory opens in Hayward — and the launch hides a remote-operator labor model. A short clip out of China shows what the same hardware looks like in uniform. Iran enters month three of a national internet blackout while a clandestine network smuggles in Starlink terminals. A new arXiv paper says LLMs prefer resumes written by themselves, with sho...

Week One in Oakland, Many Jobs Go Away, and the Bubble That Wasn't 02.05.2026 9:19

Today on IMPULSE: Elon Musk takes the stand in Musk v. Altman and admits xAI distills OpenAI's models, the same practice OpenAI accused DeepSeek of in February. Sam Altman posts two lines about jobs going away and offers no specifics on what replaces them. The Atlantic and Ethan Mollick explain how we whipsawed from "AI is a bubble" to "there are not enough data centers" in six months, and the ans...