Twitter has stopped throttling tweets with Substack links in them, but only after Elon Musk denied they were ever blocked. About 270 US Apple Stores have held staff meetings about unionization risks in the past two weeks. A New York Times article about the environmental and economic impact of bitcoin mines has some crypto proponents up in arms. And the 2023 ... Show More
Yesterday
Meta Needs To Rethink Manus
China blocked Meta's $2B Manus acquisition and ordered both sides to unwind the deal, closing the "Singapore washing" loophole for Chinese AI startups. OpenAI is developing smartphone chips with Qualcomm and MediaTek, Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, and SaaS pricing sh ... Show More
21m 17s
Apr 24
All The Headlines, All The Model Drops...
DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and V4 Flash, undercutting US labs on price by roughly 5x. OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.5, reclaiming benchmark crowns from Claude. Meta confirms 8,000 layoffs on May 20, and Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic. DeepSeek releases its new flagshi ... Show More
23m 30s
Feb 2021
BREAKDOWN: Gradually, Then Suddenly - Mastercard, BNY Mellon, Amazon, Twitter Poised to Join the Bitcoin Party
In the wake of Tesla’s big announcement on Monday, a wave of corporate engagement with crypto emerges.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.
On today’s episode of The Breakdown, NLW looks at a slew of news from corporates getting into the bitcoin and crypto space, including:
Twi ... Show More
13m 24s
Apr 2022
BREAKDOWN: Would a Private Twitter Owned by Elon Musk Be Better for Free Speech?
The Tesla billionaire has made a $40B+ offer to buy the company.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
The Elon Musk-Twitter saga continues! Today, Musk announced an offer to buy 100% of Twitter at $54.20 a share, saying that it was important for free speech ... Show More
22m 14s
Jul 2021
BREAKDOWN: Is U.S. Crypto Regulatory Bluster About to Become Action?
If regulation is unavoidable, now may be a better time to deal with it than later.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW covers:
Institutional interest revamping
The B Word conference, Elon’s reveal of SpaceX BTC holdings
NFT platform O ... Show More
9m 43s