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The hosts discuss tech drama surrounding Vinod Khosla and competing AI coding startups Factory and Cognition, alongside NVIDIA's cloud strategy and Instinct's new shopping ad experiments. The episode features interviews with Varda Space CEO Will Bruey on microgravity pharmaceutical manufacturing, Ecolab CEO Christophe Beck on closed-loop data center cooling, Tavis CEO Hassaan Raza on conversational human-interaction AI models, and Brodie Rec League founder Connor Renton on building the world's largest recreational basketball platform.
- Data center capital is surging, but 60% of planned projects face delays or pauses due to local political backlash over utility and water consumption. Read →
- Adults abandon team sports for solo fitness like running, Hyrox, or marathons because organizing ten players, reserving courts, and setting schedules creates too much logistical friction. Read →
- Pushing e-commerce links inside personal chat interfaces risks turning trusted AI companions into spam bots that users ignore. Read →
- Jensen Huang originally pitched DGX Cloud as an iPhone moment to aggregate compute demand directly against AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Read →
- Khosla Ventures backed both Factory and Cognition, sparking an open dispute when talent moved between the competing AI coding startups. Read →
- Varda Space operates as a commercial manufacturing fleet after a $251 million Series D round, moving past one-off experimental flights with vehicles eight and nine flying simultaneously. Read →