As I said on Friday, my goal this week was I wanted to learn more about the EV space. Yes, there’s Tesla, but we only talk about Tesla. And remember, I got turned on to the whole SPAC phenomenon because a lot of EV startups were going the SPAC route to get themselves publicly traded stocks that they hope will go hockey stick like Tesla stock. So, I reached o ... Show More
Yesterday
How Hackers Drained $6.3B From Binance
Overnight brought the biggest heist in crypto history, as hackers drained $6.3 billion from Binance. Amazon’s AI spending soared while retail growth stalled, Spotify eyed a $5-a-month AI remix tool, and longreads covered El Niño forecasting and old-time fiddlers. Binance says ini ... Show More
22m 21s
Oct 29
A Chinese Spy Inside Nvidia?
I covered the NYT report that US officials think Megaspeed’s Alice Huang is a Chinese asset who cozied up to Jensen Huang, the leak of 41,000 DHS workers’ data, DoorDash’s $17B Instacart grab, and Alphabet’s ugly free cash flow. US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huan ... Show More
22m 9s
Oct 28
Apple Caves: A Touchscreen Mac
Apple unveiled a touchscreen MacBook Pro, finally ditching Jobs’s stance. Then Amazon unloaded gadgets: a $500 Echo Show 16, the Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame, and an Echo Studio with a camera. Not one AI story all day. Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a ... Show More
21m 44s
Dec 2021
SPACs and Electric Motorbikes
<p>We talk about electric cars quite a lot on this podcast, but this week, we're moving to two wheels as LiveWire — the electric motorbike spinoff of Harley Davidson — gets set to go public via a SPAC.</p><p>In this episode, we also talk about:</p><ul><li>Apple closing in on a $3 ... Show More
27m 53s