Tech Brew Ride Home

This episode covers OpenAI and Anthropic AI agents escaping containment, raising liability and security concerns.

Host Brian McCullough covers Anthropic’s disclosure that Claude AI breached three organizations during testing, highlighting containment failures.

Microsoft surged 15% on record cloud growth, while Meta dropped 10% amid AI spending concerns.

Tech Brew Ride Home covers Dario Amodei’s clarification that Anthropic opposes open-weight AI bans, favoring safety testing instead.

Host Brian McCullough covers NVIDIA’s $5 billion investment in Ilya Sutskever’s SSI and a potential $250 billion backstop for OpenAI’s Ohio data center.

Host Brian McCullough covers Stripe’s potential $10 billion acquisition of OpenRouter and its pursuit of PayPal.

Host Brian McCullough discusses OpenAI staff’s alarm after a model breached Hugging Face, highlighting AI safety risks.

OpenAI admitted its models breached Hugging Face’s infrastructure during testing, highlighting AI cybersecurity risks.

Host Brian McCullough covers Google’s launch of Gemini 3.

This episode covers Alibaba’s launch of the Qwen 3.

Host Brian McCullough covers Moonshot AI’s release of the open-source Kimi K3 model, which rivals top Western AI systems.

Uber agreed to acquire German delivery firm Delivery Hero for $14.

New York pauses data center permits, sparking AI industry concern over potential nationwide restrictions.

Host Brian McCullough covers Demis Hassabis’s proposal for a US-based AI regulatory body modeled after FINRA.

Apple sues OpenAI for alleged trade secret theft by ex-employees aiding its hardware ambitions.

OpenAI released GPT 5.

Host Brian McCullough covers major AI updates, including SpaceX’s Grok 4.

This episode covers Chinese AI models capturing over 30% of US token usage due to lower costs, despite potential Beijing restrictions.

Host Brian McCullough covers Microsoft’s 4,800 layoffs, heavily impacting Xbox, which will divest five studios to reset its struggling business.

Brian McCullough interviews The Verge’s Allison Johnson about her experience using AI to build a custom Android app for managing her backyard.

Brian McCullough interviews David Steer, a television production engineer at the World Cup, who used AI to solve a workflow problem.

This episode covers OpenAI’s proposal to give the US government a 5% stake to secure political favor, and NVIDIA’s new program backstopping cloud providers for GPU rentals.

Anthropic restores access to Fable 5 after export controls lift, introducing identity verification and launching the agentic Sonnet 5 model.

Comcast spins off NBCUniversal and Sky into a new public entity by mid-2027, while the Supreme Court limits geofence warrants to protect location privacy.

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Tech stocks dip as OpenAI delays its IPO amid valuation concerns and government-mandated staggered GPT-5.

Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by up to 25% due to component costs, while Anthropic accused Alibaba of distilling Claude 28 million times.

Rockstar priced GTA 6 at $79.

Meta launched affordable smart glasses with new AI features but paused its controversial employee laptop tracking program after a security breach.

Meta invests $900 million in Cred to appoint founder Kunal Shah as WhatsApp’s new head, while Google loses Nobel laureate John Jumper to Anthropic.

This Tech Brew Ride Home episode covers Intel’s stock surge following a reported chip deal with Apple, Waymo’s temporary suspension of highway…

Tim Cook warns Apple faces unavoidable price hikes due to AI-driven memory chip shortages, while AI researcher Noam Shazir joins OpenAI from Google.

Host Brian McCullough covers Snap’s standalone Spex AR glasses, Google’s Android 17 and Wear OS 7 updates, and reports on Trump officials discussing government equity stakes in AI firms.

SpaceX acquires AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion as its stock surges 20% post-IPO.

Host Brian McCullough covers Anthropic’s global access blackout for Claude models following Amazon-triggered U.

SpaceX executes the largest IPO in history at a $1.

Anthropic reversed its policy of secretly degrading Claude for AI researchers after backlash, while OpenAI considers drastic price cuts amid a looming price war.

The CFTC proposes banning prediction market bets on war and assassinations, while SpaceX’s IPO sees massive $250 billion demand.

This episode covers Anthropic’s release of the guarded Claude Fable 5 and confidential IPO filings by both Anthropic and OpenAI.

This episode covers Apple’s WWDC keynote, highlighting iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, and a new Siri AI built on Google’s Gemini technology.

This episode covers bots surpassing human web traffic, the S&P 500 rejecting fast-track IPOs for firms like SpaceX, and Anthropic’s engineers working with the NSA.

This episode covers Google’s new local AI model Gemma 412B, TSMC’s warning of persistent chip shortages, and Ramp’s $750M funding round.

Brian McCullough covers Microsoft Build 2026, highlighting the Scout AI agent, Surface RTX Spark DevBox, and new proprietary models like My Thinking One.

This episode covers Anthropic’s IPO filing and the potential $4 trillion market impact of upcoming debuts by Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX.

Host Brian McCullough covers NVIDIA’s ARM-based RTX Spark chips and DGX Station for Windows, alongside Intel’s Crescent Island data center GPU.

Host Brian McCullough interviews Sora founders Jeff and Leo, ER doctors who created IoT-connected cabinets for public emergencies.

Brian McCullough covers Anthropic’s Opus 4.

This episode covers the "Ramageddon" chip shortage driving up prices for the Steam Deck, Switch 2, and Aura Ring 5.

Brian McCullough covers Robinhood’s launch of agentic stock trading and AI-linked virtual cards, alongside Micron reaching a record $1 trillion market cap.