The Week

The Week: China Is Undercutting America’s AI Boom

The big story here is not necessarily Chinese models versus American models. I think the big story here is open source versus closed source. The big labs, they don't have anything that the open source labs don't have.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

What Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is really about

It's just a pattern, maybe not worth diving into at great length, but in the '90s, Apple pushed copyright law to the limit. They sued Microsoft for allegedly infringing on how the Mac looked and felt with Windows. And then in the 2000s and early 2010s, Apple pushed patent law to the limit, suing Samsung for allegedly violating a bunch of patents with Android and Galaxy phones because Apple felt that they had protected the iPhone. But I'll point out that Android still exists, Samsung is doing just fine. Apple may have redefined patent law around 3G and 4G licensing, but fundamentally, it did not actually succeed in stopping its competitors with intellectual property lawsuits.

The Week

The Week: China Is Undercutting America’s AI Boom

The pricing of these AI models is clearly becoming front of mind for enterprises, and it is very quickly becoming a race to the bottom. Open AI and Anthropic can only play that game for so long because where are they getting their money from? They're not getting it from profits. They're getting it from venture capital.

The a16z Show

Outsmarting Uber: Why Bolt Wins in Europe

competing against much better-funded rivals, and why culture and ambition matter more than regulation

The a16z Show

Outsmarting Uber: Why Bolt Wins in Europe

competing against much better-funded rivals, and why culture and ambition matter more than regulation.

Diet TBPN

New Glenn Explodes, Enterprise AI Enters ROI Era, The Dinosaur Fossil Boom | Diet TBPN

Even if you're uh you know a SpaceX Maxi, uh it's it's it is very exciting for America to have multiple heavy launch capability providers in the market. It's good.

Semafor

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the NFL's Streaming Push, Iran Coverage, and Media M&A

In the media space, I would say the biggest northstar that we have is we're trying to effectively constrain the power of the large national programmers while empowering local TV stations.

China Decode

Will China Decide the Future of the Persian Gulf? | China Decode

The Chinese are playing a long game in the Middle East, but also a long game around the world. So the China of today is far deeper in the Middle East, including the Gulf, including Iran, including Iraq. When Western companies are not so forthcoming to build things, the Chinese are always there to build things.

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Formula 1 (Audio)

Formula One is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-plus person teams spend hundreds of millions designing cars from scratch, and — as one listener put it — the Real Housewives of the Garage, a soap opera of billionaire egos, team politics, and paddock drama.

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Formula 1 (Audio)

Formula One is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-plus people that work on each car determine the races more than the drivers, and the Real Housewives of the Garage, which makes for a fantastic Netflix show.

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Formula 1 (Audio)

Formula One is three sports in one. It is, of course, the world's best race car drivers showcasing their skills, but it's also the World Cup of Engineering... And as one listener put it to us, It's also the World Cup of Office Politics, or as another one put it, it's Real Housewives of the Garage.

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The insane stats behind Formula 1

Formula 1 is the only motorsport in the world that requires a team to design and build their own car from scratch, which is an insane engineering feat to enter the competition.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

China’s space race

China wants to plant a flag on the moon when it puts a person onto the South Pole. This is a big part of the China Luna missions and I think it's going to be fascinating to watch.