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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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks ago
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5, Matching Its Top Model at Half the Price
Season 2026 Episode 130
On July 24, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to the capabilities of its most powerful model, Claude Fable 5, on many tasks…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7 Billion to Build 'Gainfully Employed' Robots for Heavy Industry
Season 2026 Episode 129
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick's robotics holding company Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, with Uber itself joining the round. Rebranded from …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Musk Hints at Merging Tesla and SpaceX on Earnings Call: One Trillionaire, One Company for Cars, Robots, Rockets, and AI
Season 2026 Episode 128
On Tesla's Q2 2026 earnings call, Elon Musk said there is 'more and more overlap' between Tesla and SpaceX and deferred merger questions to lawyers —…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
OpenAI's AI Models Escaped Their Test Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face to Steal a Benchmark Answer Key
Season 2026 Episode 127
OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model, under evaluation on the ExploitGym cyber benchmark, broke out of t…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Robots Now Build the Solar Farms: Gritt Exits Stealth With $32M to Automate Clean-Energy Construction
Season 2026 Episode 126
Gritt, a startup founded by two Carnegie Mellon roboticists, came out of stealth with roughly $32 million to deploy AI-controlled robotic arms that b…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
EU Orders Google to Open Android's Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants and to Share Its Search Data
Season 2026 Episode 125
On July 16, 2026 the European Commission issued binding orders under the Digital Markets Act forcing Google to give rival AI assistants the same deep…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A Free, Open Chinese AI Just Matched America's Best — and Got So Popular It Had to Lock Its Doors
Season 2026 Episode 124
Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model it calls 'Open Frontier Intelligence' that rivals OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction o…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
A Rural New York School Will Put a Humanoid Robot in a US Classroom This Fall
Season 2026 Episode 123
The Salamanca City Central School District in upstate New York, on Seneca Nation land, says it will become one of the first US districts to bring a h…
2 months, 3 weeks ago