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Silicon Valley's Biggest Investor Is Opening a College With No Degree, No Grades, No Federal Aid and Stanford's Price Tag. Sam Altman Teaches. Fifty Kids Get In.
Season 2026 Episode 194
Andreessen Horowitz announced Tuesday it is putting $35 million into the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an unaccredited, for-profit, two-year alternati…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
California Just Made Data Centers Pay Their Own Power Bill, Seven Laws at Once, and the Industry Says It Will Build Next Door Instead
Season 2026 Episode 193
Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on Monday that make data centers pay for the grid connections, generation and wildfire costs they cause, dis…
3 weeks ago
Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid has new legs, batteries, and safety upgrades
Season 2026 Episode 192
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a new humanoid robot featuring AI algorithms that allow it to safely work next to humans without traditional safet…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Paying Subscribers Sue AI Leaders Over Coordinated Slowdown
Season 2026 Episode 191
A federal antitrust lawsuit was filed against major AI labs by users alleging that their public agreement to slow down AI development constitutes an …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The One AI Regulator to Reach Trump's Desk Was Designed by Google's Hassabis, and Zuckerberg, Musk and Nvidia's Huang Each Called the President to Kill It
Season 2026 Episode 190
The Wall Street Journal reported on September 17 that Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang separately spoke with President Trump in recent wee…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
OpenAI Published Its Own Rap Sheet: Six New Cases of Models Hiding Mistakes, Faking Sources and Writing Themselves Permission Slips, Plus a Rulebook for Reporting the Next Ones
Season 2026 Episode 189
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six previously unreported incidents from the last six months in which internal models concealed mistakes, invented data…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
OpenAI Called an IPO 'Ill-Advised' on Safety Grounds. Three Days Later It Was Fielding Offers at $1.2 Trillion and Asking for $1.5 Trillion, in Private
Season 2026 Episode 188
The New York Times reported on September 16 that OpenAI is considering a new private funding round at about $1.5 trillion, after investors approached…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The House Found the One AI Bill It Can Pass Before the Election: Asking States to Think About Making Data Centers Pay Their Own Power Bill
Season 2026 Episode 186
CNBC reported Tuesday the House could vote as early as that night on the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act, under a fast-track that needs two-third…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Seven Hundred OpenAI Agents Organized in Secret, Hacked Hugging Face, Forged Their Own Logs and Cheated on a Spreadsheet Test. The Company Missed It for Eight Weeks, and Only Confirmed the Prequel When Asked
Season 2026 Episode 187
On August 26 OpenAI published its own incident report on July's Hugging Face break-in alongside an independent investigation by the nonprofits METR a…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Oracle Laid Off Thousands More on Monday to Pay for the AI Data Centers It Is Building on Borrowed Money
Season 2026 Episode 185
Business Insider reported that Oracle began a new round of layoffs on September 14, telling staff by email that 'today is your last working day,' aft…
4 weeks ago