The Slidebean Stand-Up

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The Slidebean Stand-Up episodes

  • Tech Makes Tripless Shrooms

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    On this episode:

    • AI shrooms are here to heal your mind without the trip.
    • Waymo for Business is offering driverless rides for your office commute.
    • Jimmy Kimmel is back on Disney, YouTube reinstates conservative voices.
    • Samsung fridges are showing ads...privacy just left the building.
    • The Next Web shuts down, closing an OG tech hub.

    All the tech news, none of the hallucinations.

    20 min
  • Meta Wants to Be Your Wingman (Seriously)

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    On this episode:

    • Meta shoves AI into Facebook Dating: now your messages come pre-Zucked.
    • Meta launches a Super PAC: lobbying dressed up as “innovation.”
    • OpenAI raids Apple for talent — Sam Altman’s orchard heist.
    • Hackers ground flights, stall Jaguar, and roast a VC that funds cybersecurity.
    • Bezos scores $190M NASA deal. Space race heats up.

    Tech news spicier than your AI-generated pickup lines.

    18 min
  • $100K H1B fee throws U.S. tech into chaos.

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    On this episode:

    • H1B visa workers scramble to stay in the U.S.; $8,000 last-minute plane tickets and halted departures.
    • TikTok shuffle: ByteDance keeps 20%, Oracle, Michael Dell, and Rupert Murdoch join the mix.
    • Amazon Prime accused of “dark patterns”, canceling becomes a 400-click ordeal.
    • Google cuts ~35% of managers, cancels subscriptions, signaling a new era of cost-cutting.
    • Why human content (Like ours!) is irreplaceable.

    Stay tuned, survive the chaos, repeat.

    15 min
  • Meta pirated porn to train its AI — now faces a $360M lawsuit

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    On this episode:

    • Meta’s AI appetite allegedly includes 2,400 pirated adult films.
    • Pornhub pulled out of entire U.S. states over ID laws.
    • Scammers set up fake cell towers to spam 100,000 texts at once.
    • Blue bubbles vs. WhatsApp — America vs. the world in messaging.
    • Nvidia drops $900M on Enfabrica, basically buying brains.
    • NASA streams space on Netflix — moon landings, now behind a paywall.

    Tech news, straight from the torrent

    13 min
  • Meta’s $799 Ray-Bans can do everything… except work on stage.

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    On this episode:

    • Meta shows off AI Ray-Bans, complete with live demo fails.
    • Amazon joins the smart glasses race and uses human drivers to train robot replacements.
    • SpaceX drops $17B for satellite spectrum, your phone could soon talk to Starlink.
    • TikTok gets “saved” in the U.S. (depending on your definition of spying).
    • AI labs admit: they’re running out of data to train on.
    • Gen Z wants stores without humans, Bumble sells you friends instead.

    Tech news with Wi-Fi level reliability.

    19 min
  • When Unicorns Go Bad: Meta, AI, and the Deepfake Disaster.

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    On this episode:

    • Meta and Character.ai: AI, Deepfakes, and Accountability.
    • Zuck’s MMA office workout plan.
    • Atlassian spends $610M on Arc browser — Chrome shrugs.
    • Siri finally gets some brains (Gemini powered).
    • Tesla’s Optimus fetches a Coke — and maybe plots the uprising.

    Keeping you informed while the robots take over.

    13 min
  • No breakup, just business as usual at Google

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    In this episode:

    • Google sidesteps antitrust breakup, still king of search.
    • OpenAI rethinks its whole “nonprofit” thing.
    • Salesforce fires 4,000 humans… AI does the job just as “well.”
    • Geothermal energy wins big contracts with Google and Meta.
    • SpaceX is cooking up its own rocket fuel (for Mars, of course).
    • OpenAI buys StatZig to supercharge product testing.

    A bit of tech, a lot of us.

    16 min
  • Turkey’s Tech CEO Loses His Marbles

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    In this episode:

    • Turkey’s top YouTube tech CEO caught hurling marbles at an employee.
    • Klarna dusts off its IPO dreams.
    • Climate tech funding slows. 
    • OpenAI rolls out parental controls after tragedy.
    • MrBeast wants his own phone carrier. Because of course he does.
    • SaaS… for car washes?! 
    • $1B India-US deeptech fund kicks off.
    • Cloudflare + Microsoft want you to talk to websites.

    All tech today… minus the marbles.

    15 min
  • OpenAI Snaps Up Meta Talent – Game On

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    In this episode:

    • Meta’s AI talent jumps ship – OpenAI vs. Zuck gets spicy.
    • OpenAI secretly leans on Google search (thanks, Sir Poppy!).
    • Finland’s giant sand battery.
    • July saw 16,000+ tech layoffs – ouch!
    • Voice agents go live; robo-customer service looms.
    • Some work-life balance tips.

    The future moves fast. We talk faster.

    18 min
  • Europe Is Breeding Unicorns – Kinda

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    In this episode:

    • Europe’s startup scene pops off with 10 new unicorns.
    • Big Tech hands out stock options earlier.
    • Another day, another data breach.
    • Is Google about to be broken up? Regulators think so.
    • Say hello to car dongles.
    • Scientists ditch Twitter for Blue Sky

    Quick hits. Sharp takes. All tech.

    17 min

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This is the tech world’s daily stand-up: we skim the chaos and hand you the “so what” in under 15 minutes (our guarantee to busy founders).  No fluff, a few laughs, then back to…