Tech Brew Ride Home

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.

The U.

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.

Pope Leo XIV issued an encyclical urging AI regulation and human dignity, while Huawei claims it will produce 1.

In this bonus episode of Tech Brew Ride Home, host Chris Messina interviews Brian Solis about his new "How I AI" series.

Brian McCullough covers quantum computing stock surges following $2 billion in U.

SpaceX files for a massive IPO, revealing $18.

Host Brian McCullough covers Google I/O 2026 highlights, including the fast Gemini 3.

The Musk v.

OpenAI launched personal finance tools for Pro users via Plaid, while arXiv cracked down on AI-generated academic papers.

This episode covers closing arguments in the Musk v.

OpenAI considers legal action against Apple over a strained Siri partnership, while Cerebras Systems debuts as the largest US tech IPO since Uber.

This episode covers Google’s launch of the unified Google Book OS, WhatsApp’s private Incognito Chat, and Anthropic’s $50 billion revenue run rate.

This episode covers Instructure’s deal with hackers to recover stolen Canvas data and eBay’s rejection of GameStop’s $56 billion bid.

This episode covers Google’s report of the first AI-assisted zero-day hack, signaling a shift in cybersecurity where traditional patch windows are obsolete.

This episode covers Nintendo raising the Switch 2 price to $500 due to memory shortages and the Canvas LMS going offline after a ransomware attack by Shiny Hunters.

Host Brian McCullough covers Anthropic’s 80x growth surge and its new 300-megawatt compute deal with SpaceX, which absorbed XAI.

This episode covers Corning and NVIDIA’s partnership to build optical manufacturing plants, Morgan Stanley’s low-fee crypto trading pilot on E-Trade,…

The Trump administration considers AI oversight, reversing its previous hands-off stance.

GameStop’s Ryan Cohen made a $56 billion unsolicited bid for eBay, while Anthropic and OpenAI form joint ventures with private equity firms to sell AI tools.