Thu. 03/11 – The Roblox Debut

Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting and old-time fiddlers. Binance says ini ...  Show more

I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B Instacart grab, and Alphabet’s ugly free cash flow. US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huan ...  Show more

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Sean O'Kane discuss electric vehicle startup Rivian becoming a publicly traded company after executing one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. The crew also cover multiple stories about Apple from this week, Mi ...  Show more

Timestamps: 0:00 godspeed, tech news fan 0:10 Nvidia's $2 trillion, new Nvidia App 2:00 Gemini image gen, Stable Diffusion 3 4:10 Reddit's IPO, AI deal with Google 6:04 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:14 Vision Pro glass cracks 7:04 iPhone 15 battery twice as good 8:02 Vending machines with f ...  Show more

Today we talk about a company that might make it a little easier to get your kids interested in investing -- Roblox! The company is behind an immersive world and game development platform that's wildly popular with kids under 13. We talk about the company that has built itself ar ...  Show more