E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IP...

(0:00) Bestie intros: Recapping recent interviews and the state of American science (3:31) China's Robot Olympics, Optimus update, Grok Bot (9:05) Nvidia and Salesforce rip after big earnings: AI Capex Bubble and SaaSpocalypse narratives get reversed (33:32) Bessent gets called o ...  Show more

(0:00) Eric Weinstein joins the show! (03:09) Has American science stalled? Cowboy science, Fauci, and the scientific precariat (21:31) Weinstein's fix: Blow a hole in the Civil Rights Act, kill peer review, fund people not ideas (41:36) Ed Witten drove physics off a cliff, and i ...  Show more

Episode 285: Neal and Toby unpack the DOJ’s latest suit against Apple, alleging that it monopolized the smartphone market. Could this antitrust case have some legs? Then, why the Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s translator over his controversial debt. Meanwhile, a round up of the la ...  Show more

Episode 282: Neal and Toby dive into the potential mega deal between Apple and Google where Gemini could supercharge future iPhones. Then, can the federal government crackdown on social media companies to protect its users? The Supreme Court’s decision could impact the 1st Amendm ...  Show more

All the headlines from the iPhone event earlier today, including the new iPhone Air. The judge isn’t happy with Anthropic’s $1.5 B payday to authors. OpenAI isn’t happy with California and might leave. And despite what it’s said publicly, Google recently argued in court that the ...  Show more

Where will Meta, Apple, and Google be three years from now? It's starting to look like they might all be very different. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Richard Lawler start the show with Eddy Cue's testimony in the Google search trial, in which Cue argued that AI is taking over — ...  Show more