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August 08, 2025Fri. 08/08 – GPT-5 Fallout
Tracking the fallout and implications from GPT-5’s rollout yesterday. Why is Google’s AI chatbot filled with self-loathing and recrimination? Are President Trump’s comments just the latest worry for the CEO of Intel? Are those AI coding companies actually making any money? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card (Simon Willison)

GPT-5 Hands-On: Welcome to the Stone Age (Latent Space)

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments (Business Insider)

Intel’s Chief Holds Firm After Trump Demands His Resignation (NYTimes)

High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups (TechCrunch)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ (WSJ)

SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO. (NYMag)

Is Perrier as pure as it claims? The bottled water scandal gripping France (BBC)
22 min
August 07, 2025Thu. 07/08 – GPT-5 Released
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% tariffs on chips and semiconductors. But Apple gets a pass because they’re committing to building more in the US.
Links:
GPT-5 is being released to all ChatGPT users (The Verge)

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait (WSJ)

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here (TechCrunch)

Trump Urges ‘Conflicted’ Intel CEO Tan to Resign Immediately (Bloomberg)

Trump Eyes 100% Chips Tariff, Exempting Firms That Invest in US (Bloomberg)

Apple Announces $100 Billion US Investment Ahead of Trump Event (Bloomberg)

Could AI Datacenter Spending Blow Up The Economy? With Paul Kedrosky (YouTube)
22 min
August 06, 2025Wed. 08/06 – OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models
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 models. Grok’s new spiciness is already generating nudity. A new AI model to identify malicious software autonomously. And Nvidia wants you to know: no back-doors!
Links:
ESPN flagship streaming service to launch Aug. 21 (CNBC)

Hulu App to Be Phased Out as Disney Is ‘Fully Integrating’ Service Into Disney+ (Variety)

OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 (Wired)

Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to) (ZDNet)

Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese (VentureBeat)

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes (The Verge)

Microsoft’s new AI reverse-engineers malware autonomously, marking a shift in cybersecurity (GeekWire)

Nvidia defiant over backdoors and kill switches in GPUs as U.S. mulls tracking requirements — calls them 'permanent flaws' that are 'a gift to hackers' (Tom's Hardware)
21 min
August 05, 2025Tue 08/05 – Spygate At TSMC?
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 to. Creating entire video game worlds with just a text prompt. And exactly how big Patreon has grown in the creator economy.
00:32 TSMC Spygate
02:50 Cloudflare V. Perplexity
04:52 Figma Followup
07:35 Music AI
09:53 New Google Models
14:58 Patreon Numbers
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TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process (9to5Mac)

Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites (The Verge)

Figma’s Pursuit of Long-Term Backers Kept IPO Price in Check (Bloomberg)

Voice Startup ElevenLabs Launches AI Music Service (WSJ)

Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time (The Verge)

Google’s Kaggle to host AI chess tournament to evaluate leading AI models’ reasoning skills (Silicon Angle)

Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payment milestone (Axios)
21 min
August 04, 2025Mon. 08/04 – The AI Researcher Who Turned Down $1.5 Billion From Zuck
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 have definitively shifted in Silicon Valley. And will rollable laptop screens become mainstream?
00:33 Robotaxis In Europe
02:12 Apple Wants Answers
03:57 Lina Khan
05:54 Billion Dollar Turn-Down
07:54 AI Trading Bots
10:25 The Silicon Valley Boom Is Back
14:23 A Rollable Laptop
Links:
Lyft Partners With Baidu on Robotaxis in European Expansion (Bloomberg)

Apple’s New ‘Answers’ Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push (Bloomberg)

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny (TechCrunch)

Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg. I’m Gonna Pass. (WSJ)

‘Dumb’ AI Bots Collude to Rig Markets, Wharton Research Finds (Bloomberg)

Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era (NYTimes)

Lenovo’s rollable laptop is the coolest computer I’ve used all year (The Verge)
21 min
August 01, 2025Fri. 08/01 – Tech IPO’s Are Back On The Menu, Boys…
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 traction, OpenAI raises again. Earnings from Apple and Amazon, and of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Chapters:
00:33 Figma IPO
04:57 Anthropic And Open AI Numbers
08:45 New Deep Think Model
11:08 Tech Earnings Omnibus
14:35 Longreads
Links:
Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33 (CNBC)

Anthropic Revenue Pace Nears $5 Billion in Run-Up to Mega Round (The Information)

Exclusive: OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal (NYTimes)

Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel (TechCrunch)

Reddit wants to be a search engine now (The Verge)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The first commercial space station is nearly here. And it could change space forever (BBC Science Focus)

A Deadly Fungus Killed 10 Scientists Working in a Tomb. It Could Be a Breakthrough in Curing Cancer. (Popular Mechanics)

What happens once we spot the asteroid that will hit Earth? (FT)
23 min
July 31, 2025Thu. 07/31 – Microsoft Joins The $4 Trillion Club
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 AI more than ever, but that doesn’t mean they trust it. And at the end of the show, as promised, the huge podcast announcement.
Links:
Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club (CNBC)

Investors Cheer an A.I. Spending Bonanza (NYTimes)

Meta shares climb 10% on revenue beat, raised forecast (CNBC)

Apple, Google, OpenAI to Work With Federal Agencies to Make Health Data Helpful (Bloomberg)

OpenAI Hits $12 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Breaks 700 Million ChatGPT Weekly Active Users (The Information)

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code (VentureBeat)

Google DeepMind says its new AI can map the entire planet with unprecedented accuracy (VentureBeat)
23 min
July 30, 2025Wed. 07/30 – The Real Money In AI Video Is In Robotics?
Age verification for web users is sweeping the globe. ChatGPT debuts a study mode for students. What, exactly is Zuckerberg trying to achieve by hiring everyone in AI? Maybe Cohere is the real dark horse in the AI model race. And what if the real money in AI video is in training robots?
Links:
YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections (TechCrunch)

ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems (Wired)

Apple Loses Fourth AI Researcher in a Month to Meta’s Superintelligence Team (Bloomberg)

Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target (Wired)

AI Startup Cohere Projects $200 Million Revenue Pace as New Funding Nears (The Information)

Runway, Luma Target Sales to Robotics Companies (The Information)
21 min
July 29, 2025Tue. 07/29 – Do You Need To Cut Back On Your AI Usage?
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 usage as some people are using AI too much? Waymo is coming to Dallas. And further proof of my thesis that smartglasses are the next big thing in tech hardware.
Links:
Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off 'Horizon' video games (Reuters)
Microsoft revolutionizes Edge as an AI-powered web browser with new experimental 'Copilot Mode' — here's how to enable it right now (Windows Central)
Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users (TechCrunch)
A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating (404Media)
Waymo, Avis Plan Dallas Robotaxi Launch in Multiyear Deal (Bloomberg)
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses revenue tripled over the year, EssilorLuxottica says (CNBC)
Oakley Meta glasses review: A familiar formula with some upgrades (Engadget)
18 min
July 28, 2025Mon. 07/28 – Tea Has Been Spilt
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 a big way. And no sooner did the hot new dating app Tea get hot, then it got hacked. Tea was spilt, if you will.
Links:
Samsung to Make Tesla AI Chips in Multiyear Texas Deal (Bloomberg)
Donald Trump freezes export controls to secure trade deal with China (FT)
Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (TechCrunch)
PayPal to Roll Out ‘Pay With Crypto’ Feature for Merchants (Bloomberg)
AI start-up Anthropic open to Mideast funds in talks to double valuation to over $150bn (FT)
Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app (NBCNews)
Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women's safe space (NBCNews)
19 min