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Daily personal-finance news in about ten minutes. Every morning, an optimist and a fine-print-reading cynic break down the money stories that actually matter — layoffs, housing, deals, side income, rates, and money moves. Theo has the move; Priya wants the receipts. Together they cut through the noise to what's real, what's overblown, and what it means for you. This is news and commentary, not financial advice. New episode every weekday. From the team at brokeit.dev.

  1. 8h ago

    OpenAI stops web training, Daytona $1B, Early employee stock sales

    OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks” — OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work. techcrunch.com Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels — Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor, and others as angels, it says. techcrunch.com Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early — A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers. techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

  2. 1d ago

    Anduril war dogs, OpenAI $1.25T, AI agents playing

    Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing — MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs. techcrunch.com Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear — Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. techcrunch.com OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO — Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever. techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

  3. 2d ago

    Flapping Airplanes $1B, Tesla Cybercabs, Airbnb chore revolt

    Tesla says it will start selling Cybercabs by end of year — Tesla said Wednesday it will start selling its Cybercab to customers by the end of the year, even as federal regulators investigate whether the vehicle meets vehicle safety standards. The gold-hued, a techcrunch.com Airbnb limits chores for guests, sparking backlash from hosts — Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores. techcrunch.com Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation — Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet." techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

  4. 3d ago

    50+ deaths AI block, SpaceX Tesla merger, OpenAI biotech buy

    Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed — The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge. techcrunch.com SpaceX and Tesla boards form special committees to review merger — Elon Musk likes the idea but says he is not on either committee, which is made up of independent directors. techcrunch.com OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business — OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researcher techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

  5. 4d ago

    AI account charges, Flipkart food fight, regulation push

    Walmarts Flipkart is quietly building a food delivery challenger in India — Flipkart has expanded access to its food-delivery service to thousands of employees ahead of its public launch. techcrunch.com Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands. techcrunch.com Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts — OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI to techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

  6. 5d ago

    Disney AI hires, Anthropic's 5% fund, Benchmark's market calm

    Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce — The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with techcrunch.com Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’ — Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund. techcrunch.com No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market — Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

  7. 6d ago

    Replit picks OpenAI, Meta drops AI data, Robotics' ChatGPT moment

    Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns — A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web. techcrunch.com Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says — Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform. techcrunch.com An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet — Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

  8. Oct 17

    Rogue AI India, Replit drops Anthropic, Waymo to Canada

    Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says — Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with techcrunch.com India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity — The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles. techcrunch.com Waymos robotaxis are headed to Canada — The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets. techcrunch.com Transcript, links and more: episode page

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Daily personal-finance news in about ten minutes. Every morning, an optimist and a fine-print-reading cynic break down the money stories that actually matter — layoffs, housing, deals, side income, rates, and money moves. Theo has the move; Priya wants the receipts. Together they cut through the noise to what's real, what's overblown, and what it means for you. This is news and commentary, not financial advice. New episode every weekday. From the team at brokeit.dev.

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