The $900 Billion Underdog

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI Frontier Anthropic's New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Sam Altman compares Mythos to dropping a bomb while selling a $100B bomb shelter Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 7-0 wipeout: ChatGPT-5.5 vs Claude 4.7 in 7 impossible tests China orders Meta to unwind $2B Manus acquisition He Built a $1.8 Billion Company Alone with AI Tech Layoffs & Big Moves John Ternus named Apple CEO to replace Tim Cook Nearly 40,000 tech jobs lost in April 2026 20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise AI labor crisis concern Netflix plans vertical video feed and AI recommendations Privacy, Security & Age Checks US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification Brussels age-checking app hacked in 2 minutes $5 Bluetooth tracker in a postcard exposes Dutch warship Hardware, Science & Engineering NIST creates 'any wavelength' lasers in tiny circuits NASA shuts off instrument on Voyager 1 Anker made its own AI chip (Thus) YouTuber builds working DRAM in backyard Linux begins dropping Intel 486 support Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results BMW one step closer to a color-changing car Alberta startup sells "no-tech" tractors for half price Robots Take the Field Chinese android beats human half-marathon record Japan Airlines pilots humanoid robots at Haneda Table tennis robot defeats top human players Weird & Wacky Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled in-vehicle toilet Air New Zealand adds economy bunk beds (with rules) Hairdryer allegedly used to trick weather sensor for $34K Polymarket bet DOJ arrests soldier who made $400K betting on Maduro's removal I bought Friendster for $30K — here's what I'm doing with it NZ DOC: remote tech begins a "new era" for conservation Tech Rec: Sanjay - Citymapper Adam - Claude Design Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.