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Back to SearchPivot 5 AI Briefing — May 1, 2026
Episode 121
Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen In this episode: • Today: why the AI bubble might be more railroad than crypto, memory shortages that could reshape t…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Pivot 5 AI Briefing — Apr 30, 2026
Episode 120
Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen In this episode: • Today we're covering OpenAI's big move to AWS, a new trillion-parameter model that's changing the …
4 months ago
Google's Military AI Deal + FDA Fast-Tracks Drug Trials
Episode 119
(0:15) Google Agrees to Let Pentagon Use Its AI for Classified Military Operations (1:07) Cleveland-Cliffs Signs Three-Year Deal With Palantir to Dep…
4 months ago
OpenAI's New Freedom + Solar Power From Space
Episode 117
(0:15) OpenAI and Microsoft Renegotiate Partnership to Give Startup More Independence (1:08) Meta Signs Deal to Power Data Centers With Solar Energy …
4 months ago
Pivot 5 AI Briefing — Apr 28, 2026
Episode 118
Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen In this episode: • Today we're covering a massive day in AI news, including OpenAI's surprise GPT-5 announcement, App…
4 months ago
Meta's $135B AI bet + Palantir's $300M food deal
Episode 116
(0:15) Meta Signs Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Amazon for Graviton5 Chips to Power AI Agents (1:12) Cohere Acquires Aleph Alpha in $20 Billion Bid t…
4 months ago
Google's $40B Anthropic Bet + ComfyUI Hits $500M
Episode 115
(0:15) Google Commits Up to $40 Billion to Anthropic in Largest AI Startup Investment (1:11) Meta Signs Multibillion Dollar Deal for Amazon Graviton …
4 months ago
Meta Cuts 10% as Microsoft Bets $18B on AI Down Under
Episode 114
(0:15) Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs to Fund AI Infrastructure Spending (1:15) Microsoft Commits $18 Billion to Expand Cloud and AI Infrastructure Across Aust…
4 months ago
Google's AI Agent War + Health Insurance Wins Reversed by AI
Episode 111
(0:15) Google Launches Suite of AI Agent Tools to Compete With OpenAI and Anthropic (1:10) IBM Software Revenue Grows but Investors Remain Wary of AI…
4 months, 1 week ago
Pivot 5 AI Briefing — Apr 23, 2026
Episode 113
Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen In this episode: • Today we're covering Anthropic's Mythos model getting into the wrong hands, SpaceX's surprise sixt…
4 months, 1 week ago