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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
Google's AI Buildout Drove a Record 37% Jump in Its Electricity Use as Emissions Climb
Season 2026 Episode 110
Google's 2026 environmental report reveals its annual electricity consumption rose 37% in 2025 — the biggest increase in company history — driven by …
3 months ago
Boston Dynamics Makes New Atlas 'Order of Magnitude' Simpler to Build, Opening a Path to Mass-Produced Humanoids
Season 2026 Episode 109
In a Forbes exclusive on July 2, Boston Dynamics revealed its fifth-generation Atlas humanoid is 'almost an order of magnitude' simpler to build, wit…
3 months ago
OpenAI Pitches Giving the US Government a 5% Stake and an Alaska-Style National AI Dividend Fund
Season 2026 Episode 108
OpenAI has held early talks to hand the US government a 5% equity stake, worth about $42.6 billion, and Sam Altman proposed that every leading US AI …
3 months ago
SpaceX Flashed an AI Phone to Investors Before Its IPO, Then Musk Called the Report 'Utterly False'
Season 2026 Episode 107
The Wall Street Journal reported that SpaceX showed investors a slim, iPhone-like AI device built on xAI's Grok technology ahead of its record June I…
3 months, 1 week ago
Meta Builds a Cloud Business to Rent Out Its Spare AI Compute, Chasing SpaceX Into Infrastructure
Season 2026 Episode 106
Multiple outlets reported July 1 that Meta is building a cloud unit to sell access to its excess AI computing power and models, directly challenging …
3 months, 1 week ago
GitHub Copilot Billing Shock: Agentic Developers Face 10x-50x Cost Surge as First Token Billing Cycle Closes
Season 2026 Episode 105
The first complete 30-day cycle under GitHub Copilot's new usage-based billing ended June 30, with agentic developers reporting bills 10 to 50 times …
3 months, 1 week ago
xAI's Grok 4.5 Enters Private Beta at SpaceX and Tesla With 1.5 Trillion Parameters and No Public Benchmarks
Season 2026 Episode 104
Elon Musk announced June 28 that xAI's Grok 4.5, a 1.5-trillion-parameter model built on the V9 architecture, has entered private beta testing exclus…
3 months, 1 week ago
US Government Restricts Both OpenAI and Anthropic Frontier Models to Trusted Partners
Season 2026 Episode 103
The US government restricted both OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Mythos 5 to handpicked circles of government-approved companies this week, cre…
3 months, 1 week ago
California Becomes First State to Launch Real-Time AI Job Loss Tracker
Season 2026 Episode 102
Governor Newsom partnered with the Employment Development Department and UC California Policy Lab to launch the AI-Unemployment Tracker, the first go…
3 months, 1 week ago