Episodes

Jan. 30, 2025

Thu. 01/30 – Everyone Reports Earnings But Wall Street Only Wants Capex Answers.

Meta and Microsoft reported earnings, but all Wall Street cared about was getting Capex updates. Meta settles with… the President. Waymo’s expansion continues apace. Why Masa Son is the perfect white knight for OpenAI. And A…
Jan. 29, 2025

Wed. 01/29 – OpenAI Says: No Copying!

Essentially, OpenAI suspects that DeekSeek might have copied them. I’ll explain the term, “distillation.” Could you soon be able to connect to Starlink on your iPhone? Is Comcast about to make the Internet… better? And the h…
Jan. 28, 2025

Tue. 01/28 – Day 2 Of The DeepSeek Era

More fallout from the DeepSeek realignment of everybody’s thinking about AI. Could this be a signal that the large model business model is over and value is going to be in the application layer? Pebble lives! Spotify says it…
Jan. 27, 2025

Mon. 01/27 – Why DeepSeek Has Stunned Silicon Valley (And Wall Street)

It’s one of those days where there’s only one story. Maybe you saw that tech stocks got obliterated today. I’m here to tell you why. It’s solely because of DeepSeek and Chinese AI tech generally. How this tech is making peop…
Jan. 24, 2025

Fri. 01/24 – Operator AI

OpenAI releases its agentic bot that can do things on your behalf on your computer. Has the Stargate controversy driven a rift between Musk and Trump? Will the US government create a strategic crypto stockpile? And, of cours…
Jan. 23, 2025

Thu. 01/23 – “Humanity’s Last Exam”

Ok, that whole AI datacenter joint venture thing seems to have gotten messy. A ByteDance board member thinks TikTok might have a way out without selling. Netflix rakes in a bunch of Oscar nominations. And humanity’s final ex…
Jan. 22, 2025

Wed. 01/22 – The Galaxy S25 Lineup

All the headlines from today’s Samsung event, including the S25 lineup. The Silk Road creator gets a pardon. A huge joint venture for a new AI datacenter effort. Will Elon take half of TikTok and the US the other half? And g…
Jan. 21, 2025

Tue. 01/21 – TikTok Lives?

Alright, I’ll sum up everything that happened this weekend with TikTik, but also get to all of the changes the new Trump administration has made, which is relating to tech, in just the past 24 hours. How folks are trying to …
Jan. 18, 2025

(BNS) Senator Ron Wyden On TikTok, AI, Regulation And His New Book

I speak to Senator Ron Wyden about the TikTok ban, AI and regulation, tech regulation in general, and his new book: It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change
Jan. 17, 2025

Fri. 01/17 – TikTok Loses In The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court rules against TikTok, but at this point, I think this is all kabuki theater. Somehow TikTok is going to survive. Bumble’s founder returns to the company. Is Apple Intelligence really working for anyone? Doe…
Jan. 16, 2025

Thu. 01/16 – Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo finally takes the wraps off the Switch 2. Everybody seems to want to give TikTok more time, but can they find a way to do it? A big new AI research lab. A check in with Nothing. The company, I mean. And the weird st…
Jan. 15, 2025

Wed. 01/15 – SEC Sues Elon Musk

The SEC is suing Elon Musk. Big AI insertions in Microsoft Copilot, Google Workspace and even LinkedIn. How TikTok plans to handle the immediate aftermath of a shutdown. Another new Instagram alternative. And have your AirPo…
Jan. 14, 2025

Tue. 01/14 – Could Elon Buy TikTok?

Break out your 2025 headline bingo cards. Did you have Elon Musk maybe buying TikTok on there? You’re a better bingo player than I am. Is the EU going to back off Tech in the Trump era? More layoffs come to Meta. The big str…
Jan. 13, 2025

Mon. 01/13 – Nvidia Isn’t Happy With New Chip Rules

The Biden administration unveils its long planned new chip export rules, and Nvidia isn’t happy. That whole botched Sonos app debacle has cost the CEO his job. Why we might not see blockbuster tech IPOs this year. Why some o…
Jan. 11, 2025

(BNS) Simon Willison And SWYX Tell Us Where AI Is In 2025

The great Simon Willison joins SWYX and I to talk about everything we learned about LLMs in 2024, and what the state of AI is generally, as we go into 2025. Here is Simon's blog post we keep referring to: https://simonwill…
Jan. 10, 2025

Fri. 01/10 – The Controversies Continue

All the controversies continue. I’ll update you on the Meta moderation controversy. The latest twist in the WordPress brouhaha. The TikTok thing is coming to a head right now as we speak, in the form of Supreme Court argumen…
Jan. 9, 2025

Thu. 01/09 – The Wildfire App Everyone In LA Has Been Using

Big new zero day to tell you about. Apple says Siri is safe, honest. Google rolls out an AI Daily Listen audio feature. Looking at the next wave of wearable AI. And let me tell you about WatchDuty, the app everyone in LA was…
Jan. 8, 2025

Wed. 01/08 – Fallout From Meta’s Content Moderation Changes

Tons and tons of controversy and fallout from Meta’s announced content moderation changes yesterday. I’ve got I think a fair, comprehensive rundown of all the angles. Interesting new rounds for Bluesky and Anthropic. And the…
Jan. 7, 2025

Tue. 01/07 – Nvidia Still Takes CES Seriously

Meta is completely revamping its fact-checking program, going instead with a version of Community Notes. A new Tesla recall, but for a different reason. Dell is taking rebranding to new, Google-like lows. All the headlines f…
Jan. 6, 2025

Mon. 01/06 – Sam Altman Is Already Moving Past AGI

Sam Altman says AGI isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Superintelligence. Why is nobody using Meta’s AI profiles? Keep an eye on Zuck, is my advice. The big trend at CES so far is AI inside smart TVs. And our first day wrap u…
Jan. 3, 2025

Fri. 01/03 – Turns Out, Siri WAS Listening To You!

Apple pays a fine cause Siri was listening in on what you said. Strava does a tie-in with Apple Fitness+. Net Neutrality is dead again, and it looks like for good this time. The nuclear winter in the VC space, CES is coming …
Jan. 1, 2025

(BNS) The Golden Girls - With Christina Warren

Among other things, learn how Miami Vice inspired the Golden Girls, how the Golden Girls helped finance the making of the movie Reservoir Dogs, whether or not Betty White and Bea Arthur hated each other, where the Golden Gir…
Dec. 30, 2024

Mon. 12/30 – Welcome To A USB-C Life

AT&T and Verizon say they’ve rooted out Salt Typhoon. Trump asks the Supreme Court to intervene in the TikTok situation. All the banks want to be like Tether. And as we slide into this new year, it’s a USB-C world now, we’re…
Dec. 27, 2024

Fri. 12/27 – A New “Definition” Of AGI

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly having problems deciding how make this whole, reclassifying as for-profit thing work. Oh, also, they secretly decided on a new definition of artificial general intelligence that is tied to…