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Episode 158
Hosts: James & Maya In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot News for June 7th, 2026. I'm James, and this is our Pivot 5 edition — five stories about wher…
1 week, 4 days ago
Pivot News AI Briefing — Jun 7, 2026
Episode 158
Hosts: James & Maya In this episode: • You're listening to Pivot News. I'm James Okafor. Today we're looking at a story reshaping how AI gets built i…
1 week, 5 days ago
Google's $920M/mo xAI Deal + NY Bans New Data Centers
Episode 146
(0:15) Google Signs $920 Million Monthly Compute Deal With SpaceX Ahead of Record IPO (1:13) Apollo and Blackstone Close $35 Billion Debt Package for…
1 week, 6 days ago
AI Job Losses Begin + Anthropic's $30B Mega-Round
Episode 145
(0:15) Customer Service and Sales Jobs Drop as AI Exposure Drives First Major Employment Decline (1:10) Anthropic Raises More Than $30 Billion at $90…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Nvidia's $20B Groq Deal + AI Solves 80-Year Math Problem
Episode 144
(0:15) Groq Raises $650 Million After Nvidia Paid $20 Billion for Its Technology and Senior Engineers (1:16) SoftBank Commits $52 Billion to Build Fr…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
ByteDance's $70B AI Bet + Amazon-Snowflake $6B Deal
Episode 143
(0:15) ByteDance Plans Up to $70 Billion in AI Infrastructure Spending This Year (1:07) Amazon Signs Snowflake to $6 Billion Custom Chip Deal (1:54) …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Musk's xAI Cursor Warning + AI Floods Courtrooms
Episode 142
(0:15) XAI Restricts Staff Contact With Cursor Employees During Acquisition Talks (1:03) ING Uses AI to Build Trading Systems in Hours Instead of Wee…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Anthropic's $30B Round + Southwest Bans AI Robots
Episode 141
(0:15) Anthropic Closes $30 Billion Round at $900 Billion Valuation, Surpassing OpenAI (1:14) Zoom's Early Anthropic Bet Turns Into $1 Billion Gain (…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Cursor Hits $3B + AI Transforms Film Production Costs
Episode 140
(0:15) Cursor Reaches Three Billion Dollar Annual Revenue Run Rate as SpaceX Acquisition Looms (1:08) Microsoft and EY Commit $1 Billion to Enterpris…
4 weeks ago
OpenAI's Singapore Lab + AI Coworkers Arrive in Slack
Episode 139
(0:15) OpenAI Opens First Overseas Applied AI Lab in Singapore With $235 Million Commitment (1:34) Analog Devices Acquires Empower Semiconductor for …
4 weeks, 1 day ago