WE'RE BACK: Meta Addiction, Jalapeño, Tim Cook's Last Day, Flocked
John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down Meta's $18 billion teen addiction settlement, Tim Cook's departure as Apple CEO, and OpenAI's custom Jalapeño inference chip. They interview ChinaTalk's Jordan Schneider on Chinese tech constraints, Actinide co-founders on modernizing Manhattan Project Calutrons to enrich domestic HALEU nuclear fuel, Regent CEO Billy Thalheimer on their $240M Series B for electric seagliders, Outset CEO Aaron Cannon on customer digital twins, and Lambda CEO Stephen Balaban on the data center grid debate.
- Actinide became the first startup to enrich uranium and produce High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) in the United States. Read →
- Regent closed a $240 million Series B round on the back of a $10 billion commercial backlog and over $20 million in defense contracts. Read →
- China manufactures $9,000 electric vehicles that match the feel of $35,000 Western cars, powered by aggressive subsidies and intense export pressure. Read →
- Meta agreed to pay 48 state attorneys general $12.7 billion over 10 years, potentially rising to $18 billion if other platforms join. Read →
- OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to design its first in-house ASIC, codenamed Jalapeño, engineered strictly for large language model inference. Read →
- Modern AI data centers use closed-loop dry cooling systems that recycle water internally rather than consuming public municipal water reserves. Read →
- Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO, handing leadership to John Ternus after steering the company through supply chain bottlenecks and political crosswinds for over a decade. Read →