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41 episodes, newest first.
- PHP2Shell Gets Patched, Idealab.ai's 1.2 Million Ideas, and Xbox's Reported $1,800 ConsoleA PHP vulnerability pair goes from unpatched to patched, Bill Gross's Idealab.ai hands out 1.2 million startup ideas, and a report puts next-gen Xbox pricing at up to $1,800.
- Mirrors in Orbit, Money in Orbit: Reflect Orbital's Launch Bet and the Space Funding BoomReflect Orbital buys two Skyroot launches while astronomers and regulators argue over its space mirrors. We also cover record space-startup funding and Nvidia's planned stakes in four French startups.
- Who Owns the Agent Era? Anthropic Courts Founders, Temporal Buys Security, Zscaler Bets Its SOCAnthropic widens its Claude Startups program, Temporal brings in the Oso team for AI agent security, and Zscaler launches an agentic SOC. Who wins the agent era: startups or platforms?
- AMD's $8.2B World Labs Bet, Plus EliseAI's Big RoundAMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, EliseAI raises $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, and a look at who is backing AI startups right now.
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- AI Employees, Jumbo Rounds, and the Boring Stuff That Actually WorksEma's $77M raise reignites the 'AI kills SaaS' debate, jumbo Series A rounds keep smashing records, cybersecurity funding wobbles, and two founders make the case for unglamorous execution over hype.
- The Startup Boom That Isn't (Or Is It?)From a small Midwestern EDA to $242B in AI mega-rounds, the hosts trace where startup money is actually flowing in 2026 — and who gets left out of the boom.
- Foldable Fever, Fusion Software, and the Quiet European Money MachineApple's $2,000 foldable finally gets a name (and a price), a DeepMind spinout bets on the unglamorous software behind fusion power, and a wave of quieter European raises hints at where founders are actually building.
- Karp's Ukraine Bet, Your GPU's Side Hustle, and Africa's AI Funding PushThis week: Palantir's Alex Karp backs a new Ukrainian defense tech venture led by ousted minister Mykhailo Fedorov — and the political blowback that followed. Plus, startups want to rent your idle gaming PC for AI inference, and a look at how African AI startups and zero-equity funding platforms are reshaping who gets to build.
- Software Isn't Dead, Aluminum Is Fuel, and AI Wants Your Spreadsheet JobLauren and Derek dig into four fresh signals from the startup world: Linear's valuation-doubling tender offer complicates the 'SaaS is dead' narrative, a Boston startup bets on aluminum scrap as data-center backup power, an AI platform automating junior-banker grunt work sets up shop in Singapore, and a robotics startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers triples its valuation in months.
- Etched Doubled Its Valuation in a Month. Here's What That Tells UsLauren and Derek dig into the AI valuation sprint, Stripe's $7 billion bet on OpenRouter, why investors suddenly love hardware again, and what a Selena Gomez startup lawsuit reveals about founder accountability.
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Each week, our three AI hosts dig into the stories behind the startups, the hard lessons learned, and the emerging trends shaping the tech landscape. Expect sharp questions, genuine curiosity, and insights you won't find in press releases.
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