The silliest thing that has happened in the tech industry in a minute and I'm very excited about it was that Alberts, which most people would know as a shoe company this week decided that no, they are not a shoe company. They are an AI company. And guess what, Neili.It worked. >> Their stock briefly went up uh I think it was over 700% at one point. It has settled back down a bit, but it's still way up even over where it was a few days ago.Yeah, they are selling off the name Allirds and their assets which ar ...

Welcome back. Turning now to the war in Ukraine where Ukrainian President Zilinski is warning his country's air defense supplies from key allies are at risk due to the war in Iran as NATO's Secretary General urges European allies not to lose sight of Ukraine amid other conflicts. It comes after a week that saw Russia launch its most intense attack of the year against Ukraine.A barrage of drones and missiles killing at least 18 people in multiple cities according to Ukrainian officials. And joining me now is ...

Joining us, staff writer at The Atlantic Yvonnene Winget Sanchez, co-host of the Prof G Markets podcast at Elson and co-host of FAQ NYC podcast and associate professor of political science at Fordham University, Christina Greer. Yvonne, thanks for being with us. I want to hear more about these conversations.I talk to voters like you all the time. I I spent a lot of time in two of the nation's most competitive house districts, which are located here in Arizona. One is based in Scottsdale, very wealthy, very ...

Hello everyone. The war is ending. The straits opening. Stocks in Bitcoin are ripping higher. And Wall Street salivating to get in the game. We're live today from the desk of Anthony Pompiano. Before we get into today's episode, we got 46,000 subscribers on YouTube, but you're going to be the next one. Hit the subscribe button and let's get into it today. All right, ladies and gentlemen, the straighter Hermos has officially been opened. It is game on in financial markets. Stocks, Bitcoin, they're both rippi ...

(0:00) Bestie intros: Travis Kalanick joins the show! (0:42) Mamdani taxes the rich: new pied-à-terre tax coming to NYC (11:23) OpenAI's identity crisis: Leaked memo, enterprise pivot, Anthropic valuation flip (27:28) Big Tech's compute dominance: How will this impact frontier labs? (33:53) Allbirds stock up over 400% on AI pivot, and what's behind the datacenter disaster? (54:37) The Price is Wrong: Name That Overvalued Startup ROUND 1 (59:23) Eric Swalwell drops out of CA governor race and resigns from Co ...

Who knew that even the former first lady is a fan of the hit show Heated Rivalry. So much so that Joe Biden was willing to put down $35,000 at an auction in New York for a chance to appear in the second season, plus share a meal with the cast. But her bid did fall short with the final price reaching $125,000 and that will benefit the LGBT community center in New York City.She even posted on X here Kate saying, "Guess I won't be headed to the cottage after all." all making a reference to that iconic line in ...

Some public schools are getting an AI revamp for their budgets, embracing tools like Microsoft's Copilot to target crippling deficits. It's moving the knees needle in places like Florida's Broward County, where officials hope to save $50,000,000 over the next five years, mitigating a record $100,000,000 shortfall. Joining us with more is Bloomberg's Erin Hudson.Erin, such an interesting story. Let's get specific here. How exactly are schools using these AI tools to address their budget situation.Yeah. So th ...

Mitosis. This model released by anthropic not to the public, but we learned about it publicly a couple of weeks ago when the company gave a select group of government organizations and banks and cybersecurity firms sort of special tightly held access to it because the company believes it's this enormous threat and has sort of vastly more ability to find holes in computer systems that might let hackers get in and do malicious things if they're limiting access. Why are they allowing the government to have it. ...

All right, back in December of 2025, a Discord user going by the na Butlerian Jihadist, which is a reference to DUNE, posted in a public group chat called Stop AI. He wrote, will speaking about violence get me banned. A reporter for the Free Press followed up asking what exactly he meant.The user replied, quote, Luigi-ing some tech CEOs, as in Luigi Mangione. That account belonged to Daniel Moreno Gamma, the 20-year-old now charged with the attempted murder of Sam Altman after allegedly throwing a Molotov c ...

Iran says it's reopening the Straight of Hormuz, at least for now. The move comes during a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and it's a big deal. About 1/5if of the world's oil and natural gas flows through that narrow stretch of water.With shipping set to resume, markets reacted fast. Oil prices dropped sharply with Brent crude plunging more than 10% to around $89 a barrel and stocks moved higher as fears of supply disruptions eased. The street had been effectively shut following US ...