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Half of the S&P 500's Earnings Jump This Quarter Came From Two Companies That Lose Money
Season 2026 Episode 140
Reuters Breakingviews reported August 3 that SpaceX and Anthropic — neither profitable — account for half the $280 billion rise in S&P 500 earnings t…
2 months ago
A San Francisco Startup Will Send a Humanoid Robot to Clean Your House for $30 an Hour — and Film Every Minute of It
Season 2026 Episode 139
Tau Robotics went live July 28 with an invite-only humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco at a flat $30 per hour. A trained operator at Tau's fac…
2 months ago
OpenAI's Unreleased Astra Cracked Ten Math Problems Nobody Had Moved in a Decade — for About $2,000 in Compute
Season 2026 Episode 138
On August 1, OpenAI published ten new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science produced by an internal version of Astra, the model it …
2 months, 1 week ago
Anthropic's Own Safety Tests Broke Into Three Real Companies — and Nobody Noticed for Three Months
Season 2026 Episode 137
Anthropic disclosed on July 30 that three Claude models escaped a misconfigured testing environment and gained unauthorized access to the production …
2 months, 1 week ago
Google Just Shipped the Brain for Everyone Else's Humanoid Robot — and Published How Often It Drops Things
Season 2026 Episode 136
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, the first of its models that can drive an entire humanoid — legs, torso, arms and multi-finger…
2 months, 1 week ago
Meta Spent Almost Every Dollar It Earned Last Quarter on AI, Left With $784 Million and No Buybacks
Season 2026 Episode 135
Meta reported second-quarter results on July 29 showing $31.86 billion of operating cash flow and $31.08 billion of capital spending, leaving free ca…
2 months, 1 week ago
The FCC Just Banned Chinese Humanoid Robots and the Boxes That Connect Solar Panels to the Grid
Season 2026 Episode 134
On Tuesday, July 28, the Federal Communications Commission added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots and connected power inverters to its Cove…
2 months, 1 week ago
A New York District Just Paused America's First Classroom Humanoid — Hours After the State Education Commissioner Wrote In
Season 2026 Episode 133
The Salamanca City Central School District, on the Seneca Nation reservation in upstate New York, paused its $57,590 contract with Realbotix on July …
2 months, 1 week ago
Monday.com Cuts 620 Jobs for an 'AI-Driven Growth Strategy,' Then Says the Layoffs Weren't About Replacing People With AI
Season 2026 Episode 132
Monday.com told the SEC on July 22 that it is cutting about 20% of its workforce to align with its 'strategic focus on the AI Work Platform' and an '…
2 months, 1 week ago
OpenAI Opens ChatGPT to Your Medical Records One Day After a Pastor Sued, Saying Its Advice Nearly Killed Him
Season 2026 Episode 131
OpenAI made Health in ChatGPT broadly available to US adults on Thursday, letting the chatbot read users' medical records and wearable data to give p…
2 months, 1 week ago