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Tech Insider Weekly
Tech Insider Weekly brings you candid, in-depth conversations with the founders building tomorrow's technology.
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35 episodes, newest first.
- AI Money, Space Computers, and the Startups You've Never Heard OfLauren and Derek dig into the billion-dollar AI funding frenzy, a jaw-dropping SpaceX computing deal, the chip war heating up behind the scenes, and the stranger-than-fiction stories proving that startup life is rarely what it looks like from the outside.
- $60 Billion and a Robot Walk Into a Bar: Big Tech's Wildest Week YetLauren and Derek break down SpaceX's jaw-dropping $60 billion grab for AI coding startup Cursor, Bezos's bet on building an artificial general engineer, Apple's long-overdue Siri overhaul, and the robotics startups quietly reshaping the physical world.
- AI's Big Week: IPOs, Apple's Siri Makeover, and the Startups Betting Billions on What Comes NextLauren and Derek sort through a genuinely wild week in tech: OpenAI files to go public, Apple finally delivers on its AI promises at WWDC 2026, the VC money keeps flowing, and a fusion startup just raised nearly half a billion dollars to build a power plant.
- Anthropic, Robots, and the Startups Caught in the MiddleLauren and Derek dig into Anthropic's meteoric rise toward an IPO, the robotics arms race from coffee shops to combat zones, the chip and infrastructure bets powering it all, and the brutal reality facing startups that built before ChatGPT changed everything.
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- AI as a Thinking Partner: ADHD, Agents, and Human-Centered AI with Adam FedermanAdam Federman explores how AI agents support ADHD minds, enterprise tech adoption, and the future of human-centered AI in the workplace.
- AI Gold Rush, Google's Identity Crisis, Moon Robots, and the Gadgets That Almost WorkLauren and Derek dig into the wild week where AI startups got a strange new offer from Sam Altman, Google quietly broke the internet, robots tried and failed to make pizza, and someone put a drug lab in space.
- AI's $80 Billion Power Grab, Google's Productivity Takeover, and the Startups Fighting BackLauren and Derek dig into the AI startup funding frenzy where two companies are eating almost everyone's lunch, Google's quiet move to turn Gemini into an operating system, the hardware crisis squeezing small teams out of the market, and a handful of scrappy founders betting big on defense, home management, and fighting AI-powered scammers.
- Billion-Dollar Bets, AI That Learns From Its Own Mistakes, and the Scammers Who Got Too GoodLauren and Derek dig into a week where AI startups are raising absurd money, consumer tech is getting a major personality transplant, and cybercriminals are using AI to run scams at industrial scale.
- AI Money Moves, Robot Dreams, and the Lawyers Who Got an UpgradeLauren and Derek break down the wildest funding rounds in AI right now, Meta's quiet bet on humanoid robots, a legal tech startup that hired Jude Law, and the coding tools trying to eat software development whole.
- AI Unicorns, Big Tech Refugees, and the Agent That Nuked a DatabaseLauren and Derek dig into the wild new class of billion-dollar AI startups, the mass exodus from Big Tech, geopolitical headaches for cross-border deals, and the AI agent that accidentally deleted a company's entire production database.
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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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