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Over 200 Economists and Nobel Laureates Sign 'We Must Act Now' Letter Warning of Large-Scale AI Job Displacement
Season 2026 Episode 120
More than 200 top economists, computer scientists and tech executives — including over a dozen Nobel Prize winners, Stanford's Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
New York Becomes First State to Freeze New AI Data Centers, Pausing Any Project Over 50 Megawatts for a Year
Season 2026 Episode 119
Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on July 14 imposing the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale AI data centers, freezi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
A Viral $8,000 Laundry-Folding Home Robot Turns Out to Need a Hidden Human Helper
Season 2026 Episode 118
San Francisco startup Weave Robotics' home robot, Isaac, went viral for folding laundry, tidying rooms and making beds for around $8,000 (or $450/mon…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Most Americans Now Back Forcing AI Firms to Hand 50% of Their Stock to a Public Wealth Fund
Season 2026 Episode 117
A new Verasight national survey finds 69% of Americans support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund,…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft, Alleging a Parts-Smuggling, Talent-Poaching Scheme Behind OpenAI's Secret AI Device
Season 2026 Episode 116
Apple sued OpenAI, Jony Ive's io Products, and two former Apple employees on July 10, alleging a coordinated campaign 'at every level' to steal trade…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 and 'ChatGPT Work,' an Autonomous Office Agent, and Lifts Government Access Limits
Season 2026 Episode 115
OpenAI began rolling out its GPT-5.6 series (Sol, Terra, Luna) on July 9 and paired it with ChatGPT Work, an autonomous agent that executes multi-ste…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.5, an 'Opus-Class' Coding Model at Under Half the Price, Built With Newly-Acquired Cursor
Season 2026 Episode 114
Reuters reported on July 8, 2026 that Elon Musk's newly-rebranded SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, publicly available July 9. It is the company's first mo…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Chinese AI Models Now Take Up to 46% of US Companies' Token Usage as Domestic Costs Surge
Season 2026 Episode 113
CNBC reported that Chinese open-weight AI models have captured more than 30% of US companies' weekly token usage since February, peaking at 46% - up …
3 months ago
Google and RWE Back Proxima Fusion at $2.7B to Build Europe's First Commercial Fusion Plant
Season 2026 Episode 112
Munich stellarator startup Proxima Fusion raised 411 million euros ($468M) from investors including Google and German utility RWE, reaching a 2.4 bil…
3 months ago
Tesla Launches Fully Unsupervised Robotaxis in Miami, Skipping the Safety-Driver Phase
Season 2026 Episode 111
Tesla began offering driverless robotaxi rides in Miami on July 3, its first market outside Texas and California. Unlike Austin, Dallas and Houston, …
3 months ago