Wed. 11/08 – The First AI Election

Microsoft considered buying Cursor but didn't pull the trigger before SpaceX's deal. Microsoft launches its first-ever voluntary retirement program, Anthropic's secondary market valuation hits $1T on Forge Global, and SpaceX's S-1 reveals plans to manufacture its own GPUs. Source ...  Show more

SpaceX struck a deal giving it the option to acquire Cursor for $60B or pay $10B, as xAI scrambles to catch up in AI coding. Google unveiled new TPUs and an agent platform, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.0, and Mythos got accessed by unauthorized users. SpaceX says it's working ...  Show more

President Biden’s decisive action to promote competition in the U.S. reflects a decreasing public approval of Big Tech. This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. On this episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW analyzes President Joe Biden’s “Factsheet: Executive Order on Promoting Competition ...  Show more

OpenAI has released its plan to fight disinformation in elections in 2024, but will its policies be consequential compared to those of other generative A.I. companies? Then, a watershed moment had crypto fans celebrating for the first time in maybe more than a year. And finall ...

Politicians are starting to formalize their positions.  This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US.  Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at a set of stories relating to crypto’s place in the political discourse, including: SEC increasing enforcement staff  Bitcoin Mi ...  Show more

A brief overview of the protests that have rocked the Central Asian company over the last week. This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US. On today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW provides a basic primer on the escalating political crisis in Kazakhstan. He covers: The ...  Show more