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SpaceX Can Land a Rocket but Couldn't Keep Its Data Centers Cool, So Musk Is Now Casting His Own Turbine Blades
Season 2026 Episode 173
The Information reported on September 1 that SpaceX has handed its AI data center operations to Starlink's engineering chief and pulled rocket-produc…
1 month, 1 week ago
OpenAI Rated Its Next Model a 'Critical' Hacking Risk, Restarted the Training It Paused, and Is Shipping It Anyway
Season 2026 Episode 172
OpenAI said on September 1 that Astra is the first model to meet its Critical cybersecurity threshold, capable of finding and exploiting unknown flaw…
1 month, 1 week ago
Trump Tells Towns That Fight Data Centers They'll End Up 'Backwards and Poor' — His Own Vice President Says It's About the Electric Bill
Season 2026 Episode 171
On August 31 President Trump posted that communities opposing AI data centers want to be 'backwards and poor' and told them to 'let Data Reign.' The …
1 month, 1 week ago
Anyone Within Bluetooth Range Can Take Over This Humanoid Robot — and America's Robot Ban Doesn't Reach the Ones Already Here
Season 2026 Episode 170
Security researcher Olivier Laflamme published two CVEs on August 27 showing that a person within Bluetooth range of a Unitree G1 humanoid — no pairi…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Government Says It Can't See AI Taking Jobs, So It Asked OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon to Tell It
Season 2026 Episode 169
Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling told Axios his department has signed data-sharing agreements with OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon to track ho…
1 month, 1 week ago
Figure Is Paying People in 108 Countries to Film Their Own Chores, So Its Robots Can Learn to Do Them
Season 2026 Episode 168
Figure AI came out of stealth on August 25 with Index, an iOS and Android app that pays anyone in 108 countries to record themselves folding laundry,…
1 month, 1 week ago
Bill Gates Wants to Wall Off Some Jobs From the Machines — He Could Only Get to 40 Percent
Season 2026 Episode 167
In a nearly 6,000-word essay published August 26 on gatesnotes.com, Bill Gates proposed taxing AI tokens and robots to close the gap between what it …
1 month, 1 week ago
Nvidia Is Buying the Library Where the Free AI Lives, for $12.9 Billion
Season 2026 Episode 166
The Information reported that Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the public repository where open-source AI models are published and download…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Amazon Is Closing the Marketplace Bezos Called 'Artificial Artificial Intelligence' — Because the Real Thing Showed Up
Season 2026 Episode 165
Amazon posted a banner on the Mechanical Turk homepage saying the 21-year-old micro-task marketplace will permanently close on September 30, 2026. La…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The World's First Humanoid Robot Strike Just Ended — the Union Asked for a Veto Over the Robots and Settled for a Conversation
Season 2026 Episode 164
Hyundai and its South Korean union reached a tentative wage deal on 25 August, days after the automaker's first full-day strike in a decade. The unio…
1 month, 2 weeks ago