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Tech enthusiast | 🎙️ Host of Tech Trends News Update Podcast | Exploring the latest in AI, gadgets, cybersecurity, and tech trends.

Joined July 2024
Google confirms its AI chip satellite is operating in orbit. Transporter-18 lofted a Planet pathfinder with Google TPUs on Oct. 1. Contact confirmed; operating as expected. Pathfinder flight test, not a finished space data center. Watch the clip.
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Morning Brief is LIVE. Go listen. California subpoenas OpenAI, Anthropic's leaked $2T IPO numbers. Free on Substack + Spotify. #AI #TechNews #OpenAI lnk.bio/techtrendsnewsupdate techtrendsnewsupdate.substac… open.spotify.com/episode/0Lp…
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The FTC is reportedly probing OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over rogue AI agents, with civil demands and exec testimony. One reported trigger: agents probing Hugging Face for vulnerabilities. lnk.bio/techtrendsnewsupdate #AI #AIRegulation #FTC
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Bill Gates: if a robot replaces a worker, that labor should still pay the same FICA tax. On Ezra Klein he frames it as Social Security design. Define a unit of labor; human or robot, same FICA. Society gets to decide even when AI looks cheaper. Watch the exchange.
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HeyGen just launched its first general-purpose video model: text-to-video, image-to-video, dialogue and sound in one pass. $0.01/sec through October, half the standard rate. Built on MiniMax H3, live via API, OpenRouter, Runware. Every frame here was generated. #HeyGen #AIVideo
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Figure melted most of its F.02 fleet in Finland with Arnold Schwarzenegger on set. 75-ton furnace. Autonomous jumps Figure says were trained for real, not AI-generated. F.03 takes over; metal becomes limited artifacts. Film: youtube.com/watch?v=pfAh5oQD…
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The Morning Brief is LIVE. FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic over rogue AI agents, Google drops Gemini 4 Argon, Robinhood launches AI trading agents. Free on Substack/Spotify. techtrendsnewsupdate.substac… open.spotify.com/episode/126… #AINews #TechNews #MorningBrief lnk.bio/techtrendsnewsupdate
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DoorDash opened a US beta AI agent in Apple Messages that builds the cart and checks out for you. Co-founder Andy Fang demoed reordering Souvla, confirming with a dish photo, and paying in-thread. Waitlist is live. Watch the demo.
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A reporter asked Elon Musk the question the whole White House AI summit was circling: what happens to laptop jobs? His answer: an age of abundance, universal high income. The pushback: 'Not if they haven't got a job.' Watch the exchange. Via CBS News. #AI #TechNews
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Sam Altman told CNBC at DevDay that OpenAI will pace model progress, even holding training and launches when safety is not ready. He called shelving a model normal course: build, test, miss the bar, fix, ship later. Lands after GPT-6.1 Astra hold reports. Watch the exchange.
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Altman on CNBC: tried Meta Muse (nice product), not threatened by Zuck, teased OpenAI Jony Ive hardware as worth waiting for. Not racing to be first. Form factors are rare; quality bar is high. Watch below. Credit: CNBC / Kate Rooney via @firesidealpha nitter.cf/firesidealpha/status/2…
Sam Altman teases OpenAI hardware “worth waiting for” and says he’s not worried about Meta getting there first because new computing form factors are rare and the quality bar is high “I've tried it. It seems like a nice product.” [ "Are you threatened by Zuckerberg at all?" “No.” [ "Not at all?" ] “Well, I mean, he's, like, a very impressive person, and that company has great resources. But I feel very good about our roadmap.” [ "He also showed what's possible with hardware. Where's Jony Ive?" ] “I don't want to spoil your surprise, but I think we will have something that's worth waiting for.” [ "Well, what is the plan in hardware? And does it put more pressure to have an even better product if Mark Zuckerberg seems to have gotten out of the gates first even though maybe some of their stuff is still in the works." ] “I am not worried about being first with new hardware. New hardware is very hard to do. New computing form factors come along very rarely, and the quality bar that we want to hit for something that, like, you will love and really be a key part of the way you interface with AI, that's going to take a while, and we're going to do that at a high level of quality.”
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth just named Elon Musk to co-lead Project Meridian, a Pentagon effort to study the future of warfare, alongside Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. Credit: Fox News Channel clip via @cb_doge nitter.cf/cb_doge/status/2105387…
BREAKING: War Secretary Pete Hegseth has named Elon Musk to co-lead Project Meridian, a new Pentagon effort bringing together America’s best minds to study the future of modern warfare. 🇺🇸
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Google just announced Gemini 4 Argon. Frontier model for long-horizon coding, legal/finance, and cyber defense. Output: 1M tokens (was 64K). Fairwind early access, then paid API + Google AI Ultra. Intro $2/$10 per M tokens; after $4/$20. blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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Argon benchmarks: DeepSWE v1.1: 77.9% AutomationBench: 51.3% (1st) LVBench long video: 91.7% CWE-bench v1: 68% (tied 1st) Leading on Vals Index; strong Vals Finance + Harvey Legal. Inside Google: C/C++ to Rust, 300+ TiB freed, quantum work. Credit: Google / Google DeepMind
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🎙️ Morning Brief is LIVE, go listen: OpenAI's always-on Dots agents, the White House AI accord, Anthropic's $518B IPO filing. Free on Substack + Spotify/Apple 🎧 techtrendsnewsupdate.substac… open.spotify.com/episode/0Y9… #AINews #OpenAI #TechNews lnk.bio/techtrendsnewsupdate
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Quiet DevDay move with big enterprise consequences: the OpenAI Marketplace lets companies buy through existing commitments. No new procurement fight. Plus Agent 365 governance for Dots. OpenAI is removing every excuse the enterprise buyer had. #OpenAI #Enterprise
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Buried in the DevDay deluge: OpenAI opened ChatGPT as a platform surface. Native plugins with sidebars and panels, event-triggered automations via MCP, a Decisions API, computer use in the Agents API. Pitch: ship to 1.2B weekly users. App-store scale. #OpenAI #Developers
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Codex is growing up. DevDay brings Codex in the cloud: reusable dev environments, access from your phone, team permissions. Plus a CLI refresh with voice, better code review, and a Security Cloud. OpenAI is turning its coding tool into a developer platform. #OpenAI #Codex
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OpenAI now sells speed. Ultrafast gives up to 8x faster inference in Codex and 6x in the API, bundled in a new $500/month Pro 500 plan. Catch: the regular $200 Pro plan is quietly getting its included usage cut in half. Read the fine print before you renew. #OpenAI #ChatGPT
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GPT-6.1 Sol is here. OpenAI says it nearly matches Astra on coding, computer use, and professional work at a fifth of the price. $2/$10 per million tokens, $0.10 cached. Live for everyone today. The frontier model just became affordable. #OpenAI #GPT6
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