Tech Brew Ride Home

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Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day... 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.... more

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October 20, 2025The Winners Of The AI Boom You Never Thought About
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’ve hit volume production in the US. And you know who else is benefiting from the AI boom? Crypto miners and makers of plain old cables.
Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more (The Verge)

OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. (TechCrunch)

X to launch marketplace for buying inactive handles (TechCrunch)

Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking (The Verge)

Exclusive: Nvidia and TSMC unveil first Blackwell chip wafer made in U.S. (Axios)

$500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom (CNBC)

Crypto Miners Riding the AI Wave Are Leaving Bitcoin Behind (Bloomberg)

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October 17, 2025Skills For Claude As A New AI Paradigm?
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 killing it. Is Wikipedia in trouble because it’s losing human users? Now Uber drivers can earn new money thanks to AI. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work (The Verge)

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (Simon Willison)

Steam just broke its concurrent user record with 41.6 million gamers (TweakTown)

Nintendo Aims to Make 25 Million Switch 2s to Set Gaming History (Bloomberg)

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404media)

Uber Launches Data Tasks as Option for Some US Drivers to Earn Money (Bloomberg)

Apple and F1 reach 5-year media deal, bringing all races to Apple TV streaming in the U.S. (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions
AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants (WSJ)

Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream (Colossus)

How Sam Altman Played Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)

TiVo Has Sold Its Last DVR. These People Refuse to Let Go. (WSJ)

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October 16, 2025A $300 Trillion Oopsie
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. Potentially huge state sponsored hack of a key infrastructure company. The most interesting new phone concept I’ve seen in a while. And are we in an AI bubble episode 72.
Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins (Decrypt)

Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort to Leave for Meta (Bloomberg)

F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code (BleepingComputer)

Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model (TechCrunch)

Honor’s Robot Phone concept features a fold-out camera arm (The Verge)

‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy (FT)

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October 15, 2025M5 Chips Are Here
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 is coming to London. Netflix wants to bring podcasts to your streaming diet. And its officially the end of the road for Windows 10.
Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro gets an M5 chip bump and faster storage (The Verge)

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults (The Verge)

Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London (The Verge)

Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal (TechCrunch)

YouTube has a new video player (The Verge)

OpenAI makes five-year business plan to meet $1tn spending pledges (FT)

Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths (ArsTechnica)

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October 14, 2025Sam Altman’s Financial Engineering
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 AI desktop workstations are arriving. And we check in with Matt Levine to get his take on what he says is Sam Altman’s genius for financial engineering.
Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (FT)

OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal (WSJ)

Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta (WSJ)

Nvidia to Start Selling $3,999 DGX Spark Mini PC This Week (PCMag)

NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats (9to5Google)

OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals (Matt Levine)

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October 13, 2025 (BNS) Jennifer Hyman Of Rent The Runway
Jenn Hyman shares her journey from early influences of entrepreneurship to founding Rent the Runway. She discusses the impact of the internet on her career, the challenges of fundraising during a recession, and the importance of building relationships in the fashion industry. Hyman emphasizes the unique advantages of starting a business in New York City and the collaborative spirit of the startup ecosystem.

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October 10, 2025China’s Getting Tetchy Again
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 Anthropic is? How just a handful of malicious documents and poison an LLM. And in the longreads, the one game that has the fate of EA on its shoulders.
China blacklists major chip research firm TechInsights following report on Huawei (CNBC)

OpenAI’s Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days (CNBC)

OpenAI Is Catching Up To Anthropic in AI Coding (The Information)

Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’ (Wired)

It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic (The Register)

Kalshi, a Prediction Market, Raises Funds and Expands Overseas (NYTimes)
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Battlefield 6 is a pivotal moment for the series — and EA (The Verge)

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October 09, 2025Intel Punches Back
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’s about to rocket to a $30 billion valuation? Big raise for a US Deep Seek competitor? And are we starting to get the first models moving beyond attention based architecture?
Here is Panther Lake, Intel’s 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics (The Verge)

Intel Debuts New Technology in Make-or-Break Moment for CEO’s Turnaround Bid (Bloomberg)

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach (The Verge)

Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation (The Information)

Reflection AI, an A.I. Model Start-Up, Raises $2 Billion (NYTimes)

Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems (VentureBeat)

Microsoft Tries to Catch Up in AI With Healthcare Push, Harvard Deal (WSJ)

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October 08, 2025The AI Concern Committee Is Back
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 they’ve raised to pay off lawsuits since they can’t get insurance. Another way OpenAI is the new Microsoft. And at the end? Look at that! A non-AI story!
OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals (Bloomberg)

Nvidia’s Huang says he’s surprised AMD offered OpenAI 10% of company in ‘clever’ deal (CNBC)

At $1.2 Trillion, More High-Grade Debt Now Tied to AI Than Banks (Bloomberg)

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says (Fortune)

Insurers balk at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI and Anthropic (Financial Times)

OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold (Wired)

Amazon Pharmacy introduces kiosks that can quickly dispense medications at the doctor’s office (GeekWire)

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October 07, 2025OpenAI Wants To Be The Windows Of AI
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 era. The prediction market market continues to explode. Turning down the volume on streaming ads. And why Mr. Beast is worried about AI social media.
OpenAI announces Apps SDK allowing ChatGPT to launch and run third party apps like Zillow, Canva, Spotify (VentureBeat)

OpenAI’s Windows Play (Stratechery)

NYSE Owner to Invest Up to $2 Billion in Polymarket (WSJ)

California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes (Politico)

MrBeast says AI could threaten creators’ livelihoods, calling it ‘scary times’ for the industry (TechCrunch)

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