Tech Brew Ride Home
Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day... 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 2150
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Wed. 04/02 – The Nintendo Switch 2
All the details from the big Nintendo Switch 2 reveal this morning. Wikimedia says AI bots are increasing its costs by 50%. North Korean IT workers allegedy continue to go after remote IT jobs worldw…
00:16:44 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Tue. 04/01 – OpenAI Closes The Biggest Private Tech Round Ever
Masa Son came through for OpenAI, to the tune of a $40 billion dollar round at a $300 billion-dollar post-money valuation. Sam Altman says OpenAI is going back to open weights. A new encryption model…
00:15:43 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Mon. 03/31 – xAI Acquires X
Over the weekend Elon said that xAI has acquired X. Elon does love to blend his companies together. Tensions between SpaceX and Apple. Apple is working on a major Health app overhaul. And in this era…
00:17:16 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
Me On The Big Technology Podcast Talking This Week In Tech
Me On The Big Technology Podcast Talking This Week In Tech
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00:57:58 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
(Essay) Silicon Valley's "Sovereign Tech Stack" Problem
Silicon Valley is in more trouble than I think people are talking about...
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00:13:19 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
Fri. 03/28 – CoreWeave’s Weak IPO
Move big moves in the gaming space. But we need to talk about that CoreWeave IPO. It. Didn’t. Go. Well. Facebook has a shocking idea: what if you could see what your friends were up to? Anthropic say…
00:19:01 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Thu. 03/27 – AI Studio Ghibli
Everyone is using that new ChatGPT image generator to make Miyazaki memes. Google is taking Android development private. Are we seeing signs of an AI datacenter pullback? Now even you can do extra gi…
00:15:38 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Wed. 03/26 – The Day Of AI Announces
It’s all AI today basically. New Gemini “thinking” models. New “deep reasoning” agents for Copilot. But the really big news is the new image generator from OpenAI. Fidelity wants to get in the stable…
00:17:05 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Tue. 03/25 – Napster Lives! Again!
Looks like the EU is bringing down the hammer on Meta. Waymo’s next city is Washington DC. Napster continues to live! And it has a new owner! Maybe domestic chip production can be cost competitive? A…
00:17:59 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Mon. 03/24 – 23andMe Enters The Deadpool
23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Are mergers and acquisitions officially back on the menu of Silicon Valley? Are cameras coming to the Apple Watch? Devs, does your AI experience line up with …
00:16:31 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Fri. 03/21 – A Look At LibGen
That whole thing with Meta allegedly scraping all the world’s books using LibGen is back in the news. Cloudflare is fighting AI scraping with AI slop. A super interesting executive shakeup at Apple. …
00:17:28 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
Thu. 03/20 – Is Apple In Its “Vista” Era?
SoftBank acquires a chip making startup. Nvidia says it hasn’t been approached to help save Intel. OpenAI announces another expensive AI tier. Apple TV+ is losing more than a billion dollars a year. …
00:16:12 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Wed. 03/19 – Nvidia Wants To Change All Of Computing
The EU Commission has brought the hammer down on Apple and Google at the same time. All the big news from Nvidia’s big event yesterday. More details on that Google/Wiz deal. Two new Pebble smartwatch…
00:16:58 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Tue. 03/18 – The Big M&A Test I Was Waiting For
We get that first big test of M&A I was looking for as Alphabet acquires Wiz. Is Roku going to force us to watch ads just to turn on our TVs? The AI coding assistant space continues to be hot. The br…
00:15:55 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Mon. 03/17 – Europe Wants To Ween Itself Off Silicon Valley
Europe wants to ween itself off of foreign big tech. Could this be the sign of a future rift with Silicon Valley? The weird case of Rippling versus Deel. Klarna lands a big fish. What the Coreweave I…
00:16:37 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Fri. 03/14 – E2EE For All!
The new RCS messaging standard makes encryption universal, and even Apple is getting on the bandwagon. OpenAI calls for a US ban of DeepSeek. Is Apple about to turn your AirPods into the Universal Tr…
00:17:20 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
Thu. 03/13 – Intel’s New Boss
Intel has a new boss and they seem to want to double down on the Foundry strategy. Meta is testing community notes. Sonos is abandoning its big streaming video hardware project. Is Adobe falling behi…
00:14:50 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Wed. 03/12 – Roomba Might Not Be Able To Clean Up This Mess
Niantic officially sells to that Saudi-owned game developer. iRobot says it might not be alive in about 12 months time. Sam Altman believes he has an AI that can write believable fiction. Is the cava…
00:16:25 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Tue. 03/11 – Biggest Changes To iOS Since 2013
Are we about to get the biggest overhaul of iOS since 2013? Is inference the way that everybody is going to eat Nvidia’s lunch? Exactly how much to AI search engines get it wrong? Why is the global s…
00:16:00 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Mon. 03/10 – Is Manus “DeepSeek” 2.0?
Well, do we have another DeepSeek moment on our hands? I tell you about Manus, which had some people losing their minds over the weekend. Now do we have the first signs of the AI M&A I’ve been lookin…
00:17:44 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
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