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Google Just Cut the Price of Its Coding AI in Half, and the Whole Industry Is Racing Down With It
Season 2026 Episode 150
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13 at half the price of the model it replaced three weeks earlier, while OpenAI opened an invite-only tier…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Amazon Is Building Its Own 7.65-Gigawatt Gas Plant in West Texas So Its AI Data Center Never Has to Plug Into the Grid
Season 2026 Episode 149
Amazon confirmed it acquired an 8,000-acre site in Pecos County, Texas, where a 35-turbine, 7.65-gigawatt natural gas plant called GW Ranch will powe…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Robots Arrived at an American Car Plant, and the Line Supervisor Says They're Still Slower Than the People
Season 2026 Episode 148
The New York Times went inside BMW's Spartanburg, South Carolina factory and Hyundai's Ellabell, Georgia plant to watch humanoid robots do real produ…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wall Street Just Turned Nvidia's Chips Into an Asset Class — and Nvidia Offered to Backstop a Quarter of the Loans
Season 2026 Episode 147
Nvidia signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
China Just Put a Price on the Humanoid Robot: $9 Billion, 219 Times Earnings, and Ordinary Savers Lining Up to Buy In
Season 2026 Episode 146
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai STAR Market listing at 150.8 yuan a share on August 6, valuing the Hangzhou company at about 61 billion yuan, or…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
An AI Wrote Sixteen Viruses That Never Existed, and the System Meant to Catch Dangerous DNA Was Built to Recognize Nature
Season 2026 Episode 145
Researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute reported in Science on Thursday that generative AI models wrote complete bacteriophage genomes from scr…
2 months ago
AI Is the Number One Reason US Companies Gave for Layoffs Last Month — and 55% of Bosses Who Cut Say It Was a Mistake
Season 2026 Episode 144
Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday that US employers announced 33,429 job cuts in July, the lowest monthly total in two years — yet artif…
2 months ago
Musk Is Building the World's Biggest Chip Factory in Texas, and Three Quarters of It Is Meant for Robots in Orbit
Season 2026 Episode 143
SpaceX and Tesla confirmed Thursday that Terafab, a vertically integrated AI chip megafab, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, with a $16.8 billio…
2 months ago
Google's Chief Scientist Quit After 27 Years to Build a Company That Automates Scientists — and Google Is Funding It
Season 2026 Episode 142
On August 5th Google DeepMind lost its CEO and its chief scientist on the same day. Demis Hassabis moved out of the DeepMind CEO seat to become Alpha…
2 months ago
Texas Just Froze Every New Data Center on Its Grid — and the Waiting List Is Five Times the Whole State's Power Record
Season 2026 Episode 141
On August 3rd, Governor Greg Abbott ordered Texas regulators to audit every data center in ERCOT's grid interconnection queue and barred any project …
2 months ago