This Week in Startups

Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190

Battery Power for Texans with Zach Dell, plus Tim Apple is LEAVING?, Polymarket to the US, and a Tesla fan update | E2190

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OpenAI’s latest “bizarre” mega-deal, datacenters in space, previewing Tesla’s big announcement and more | E2189

Sora app review, Perplexity’s Comet is FREE, and which AI tools reign supreme? | E2188

Sora 2, Tilly Norwood, and the New Slop Era | E2187

Breaking the Sound Barrier with Blake Scholl from Boom Supersonic | E2186

Why New Yorkers hate AI Friends, Producer Claude gets an update, and the value of human writers in the Age of Slop | E2185

Is there an AI coding bubble? Plus Meta’s new SlopTok product, Neon’s divisive app shuts down, and more | E2184

The rise of “workslop,” Alibaba’s insane new deepfake model, Tether’s MASSIVE valuation, and more | E2183

Jason’s H-1B pitch, the latest on the TikTok deal, and Howie’s first ad | E2182

Meta’s “creepy” new Ray Bans, Beehiiv teams with Discord, AND a visit from Lovable CEO Anton Osika! | E2181

Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics

Tesla and Uber team up! Plus Weave Robotics’ Isaac and $OPEN bull Eric Jackson | E2180

Why Medium is HIDING from AI | E2179

Robinhood Venture Fund, Polymarket adds earnings, and LAUNCH Accelerator 35 is here! | E2178

All-In Summit Highlights, Schools Could Block Social Media, FTC Chatbot Investigation, and Zoox hits Vegas | E2177

AI Copyright & Training Data w/ Chris Paniewski | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

Republic opens private markets as Positron takes on GPUs: A TWiST500 doubleheader! | E2176

How Founders Are Building the Next Great Startups | Paid.ai, iTruckr & Tenax AI | E2175

The Browser Wars heat up! PLUS, Khan on The Bulwark, rules for great domain names, and Polymarket returns | E2174

Creative Structures w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

Uber, Lucid & Nuro team up on robotaxis by 2026 | E2173

Jason’s Tesla Optimus prediction, Anthropic’s latest mega-raise and more | E2172

KPop Demon Hunters breaks records, Grok speeds up, and an AI-powered browser deep dive | E2171

Market Update and Trends w/ Becki DeGraw | Wilson Sonsini Startup Legal Basics

Google is Nano Banana, Apple AI plans & The Great H1B Visa Debate | E2170

xAI’s App Store lawsuit, Intel shares vs. grocery stores, and Netskope’s IPO | E2169

Do Kwon Guilty, Powell Pivot & OpenAI’s $12B Run Rate | E2168

Is Chalk.ai the ‘Next Databricks’? + Tollbit’s Bot Paywall for AI Agents | E2167

Scaling AI Photo Editing to 300M Users with Photoroom’s Matt Rouif | AI Basics with Google Cloud

Decart makes AI faster, Lume teaches lamps to fold laundry | E2166

Meta’s “Sensual” AI Doc LEAKS, Opendoor’s dreams became memes +  OpenAI plans $1T data center spend | E2165

The End of the ZIRP Era, and why recruiting is SO PAINFUL | E2164

GPT Psychosis is spreading, the NYT is Super-Doxxing Zuck, and Trump is wetting his beak on Chinese chip exports | E2163

GPT-5 comes alive, Apple is struggling, and Ripple bought Rail | E2162

Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161

Lina Khan’s Figma victory lap, Meta’s Superintelligence Team, BYD mega car-carrier video & MORE | E2160

TWiST 500 interviews with Cortical Labs, Turing, AND Mercor | E2159

All Star Investor Panel! Sophia Amoruso and Ryan Hoover | E2158

Figma IPO, IMAX AI Festival, the Tea app spill, that one Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and more! | E2157

Behind the scenes at the ALL-IN AI SUMMIT w/ POTUS, JD Vance, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and more… | E2156

AUTOMATING HEALTH CARE, THERMODYNAMIC COMPUTING, AND PRODUCT VELOCITY | E2155

Manufacturing in the US, Building in Open Source… and more | E2154

Inside Substack’s $100M Push to Fend Off Beehiiv | E2153

Thinking Machines’ RECORD seed round, VC Geoff Lewis, and MORE | E2152

Blitzhiring and the Complicated Case of Windsurf, OpenAI and Google | E2151

Grok 4 Beats OpenAI + The $300 AI Agent Era | E2150

Orchestrating Smarter AI Systems with AI21 Labs’ Yoav Shoham | AI Basics with Google Cloud

Starlink + Tesla? $4T Nvidia? Perplexity Browser? Linda Yaccarino Steps Down? | E2149

Cloud Seeding, Conspiracies & the Texas Floods | BONUS EPISODE!