In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down NVIDIA's case for world action models, the shift that swaps a robot's picture-describing backbone for one trained to predict what happens next. He also covers Perseverance closing in on the off-world driving record, a derelict SpaceX rocket stage hitting the Moon, and Anthropic's rework of Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards. Finally, he digs into Gemini Omni, Google's undisclosed trip-planning rankings, the Danube's record low, and iFixit's call for Apple to unlock the iPad bootloader.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with GitHub's worst reliability month on record and the AI infrastructure pressure behind it. He also covers Warp going open source, Apple's Mac supply crunch, OpenAI's goblin tic, the first 1X humanoid factory in the US, Tesla's Semi finally hitting mass production, Chinese EVs with movie-projecting headlights, the final GPS III satellite, and a quantum researcher who won 1 Bitcoin.
In this episode, Chris Cochrane dives into Apple's $599 MacBook Neo - the cheapest Mac laptop ever made - and whether it spells trouble for Chromebook makers. He also covers Samsung's CEO blaming AI for rising phone prices, Framework raising RAM prices for the third time in three months, Meta unveiling four custom AI chips, NVIDIA's GTC 2026 conference preview, a billion-dollar bet against large language models, Microsoft's game-changing Project Helix Xbox with native Steam support, Windows 11's new Xbox Mode, and SpaceX gearing up for a critical Starship Flight 12 test.
In this episode, Ray covers December Tech News! T-Mobile's groundbreaking Starlink satellite beta promises to eliminate dead zones using your regular phone with no special equipment needed. Also discussed: Japan's ship-mounted laser weapon with unlimited ammo, China's record-breaking 387 mph maglev train, Rivian challenging Tesla's camera-only approach with LiDAR, Google's Gemini-powered smart glasses, and physicists 3D printing ice sculptures just
Amazon alleged in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. SpaceX and Trader Joe’s — companies that, like Amazon, have repeatedly faced labor law violations from the federal agency — have recently made similar attacks that threaten national worker protections, TechCrunch reported. This is just Amazon’s latest attempt to block union organizing
Reports are coming in of an explosion at Kennedy during a test firing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ahead of a weekend launch. Limited news on BBC and ABC13. Hope everyone is ok.
May will be the month of giveaways, listen to win. I also go into some of things that I have been doing which you are probably already aware to ensure the stability of the show for the long hall. Extended dialogue time on this show but with a hard hitting tech show as well. Download the Audio Show File Show