
PowerBites by Julio Zelaya
"PowerBites: Business, Ed & Tech" delivers daily, strategic insights into business, tech, and education, curated by Julio Zelaya for visionary professionals. Subscribe to lead and leverage the most innovative trends.
Episodes
132 episodes
Power Bites - September 5, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week's tech landscape exploded with breakthroughs that redefine what's possible: OpenAI pivoted from products to science with GPT-5 improving mathematical theorems by 50% in 17 minutes, Microsoft unveiled an optical computer operating at l...
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Episode 132
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11:00

Power Bites - August 29, 2025 Weekly Roundup
A tiny 27-million-parameter AI just crushed OpenAI's giants at reasoning (David beats Goliath, Silicon Valley edition), while OpenAI scrambles to add safety features after tragic teen suicide linked to ChatGPT. Plus: Samsung throws shade at App...
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Episode 131
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11:23

Power Bites - August 22, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week in Power Bites: Meta just shrunk AR displays to 2mm while spending $1B monthly on the future of computing, Microsoft's AI chief warns of "seemingly conscious" bots as psychiatrists report 12 cases of AI-induced psychosis this y...
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Episode 130
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10:37

Power Bites - August 15, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week in Power Bites: Geoffrey Hinton wants AI to love us like mothers do (seriously), Google's CEO personally coded a Calendar feature because someone asked nicely on X, robots are playing soccer in Beijing, and AI bots created their own t...
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Episode 129
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12:36

Power Bites - August 8, 2025
Just dropped today's Power Bites covering the seismic shifts reshaping our world: OpenAI's GPT-5 launch that's giving away PhD-level AI for free (yes, FREE), Microsoft's synchronized rollout across their entire ecosystem, Google's desperate def...
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Episode 128
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11:17

Power Bites - August 1, 2025 Weekly Roundup
Your ChatGPT conversations aren't as private as you think - Google is indexing thousands of them right now. Today's Power Bites unpacks this digital privacy bomb plus the seismic shifts reshaping our tech landscape: Tim Cook admits Apple needs ...
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Episode 127
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11:11

Power Bites - July 25, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🚀 This week's Power Bites: We're living through a technological convergence that's reshaping everything we know about business. GPT-5 drops in August with mind-bending multimodal capabilities, Google just launched virtual try-ons using y...
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Episode 126
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13:13

Power Bites - July 18, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week in Power Bites: Google's AI just prevented a cyberattack before it happened (yes, like Minority Report but real), while a U.S. soldier hacked AT&T and tried selling Trump's call logs, McDonald's protected 64 million job applicatio...
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Episode 125
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12:46

Power Bites - July 11, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🚀 This week on Power Bites: Elon's Grok 4 just dethroned ChatGPT and Claude in AI benchmarks (but why did their chief scientist quit hours before launch?), a robot surgeon performed autonomous operations with perfect accuracy after binge-watchi...
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Episode 124
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11:12

Power Bites, 4th of July, 2025
🧠 Your brain is still creating new neurons at 78, an AI can predict your decisions before you make them, and gene therapy just gave 10 deaf patients their hearing back with a single injection – welcome to this week's Power Bites! Today's editio...
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Episode 123
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12:16

Power Bites - June 27, 2025 Weekly Roundup
What do a CEO warning us not to trust his 500-million-user product, mosquito-sized spy drones, and the discovery that your coffee addiction might be extending your life have in common? They're just a few of the mind-bending stories in this week...
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Episode 122
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12:27

Power Bites June 20, 2025
Just dropped this week's Power Bites newsletter! 🚀 Honda's building rockets (yes, THAT Honda), OpenAI discovered their AI has hidden toxic personalities they can dial up or down like a villain meter, and xAI is burning $1 billion monthly while ...
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Episode 121
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12:44

Power Bites - June 13, 2025 Weekly Roundup
Continuing my final leadership module at Penn, and wow—examining what it means to lead when AI can outthink us really puts things in perspective. In today's Power Bites, I dive into Apple's 10-year journey to trust us with CarPlay video, Tesla'...
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Episode 120
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11:32

Power Bites - June 6, 2025 Weekly Roundup
OpenAI's $40 billion funding round is just the tip of the iceberg. From AI cameras cutting traffic violations by 50% to computers literally running on human brain cells (not sci-fi, actual 2025 reality), to Yoshua Bengio warning about AI models...
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Episode 119
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10:49

Power Bites May 23, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🚀 This week in tech feels like science fiction became reality overnight. Claude 4 just outperformed junior developers, Google's Gemini can now think deeply AND browse the web for you, Tesla's Optimus learned to do chores by watching YouTube (ye...
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Power Bites - May 16, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week's PowerBites dives into breakthrough AI research showing ChatGPT significantly boosts student learning outcomes, Google's AlphaEvolve quietly saving millions in data center costs, an AI that predicts health from selfies, TikTok's imag...
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Episode 115
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13:23

Power Bites - May 9, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🔥 Today in PowerBites: Apple's secret plan to win the race for your face with project N401 smart glasses, Google loses Safari search traffic for the first time in 22 years (wiping $170B in market value), and why paying ransoms doesn't st...
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Episode 114
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15:21

Power Bites - May 2, 2025, Weekly Roundup
🔥 Tech Acceleration Alert: Amazon's Nova Premier AI can process 8 novels in one go, OpenAI had to roll back ChatGPT for being "too sycophant-y," and Duolingo is phasing out contractors for AI. What does this mean for your business? In to...
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Episode 113
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13:01

Power Bites - April 25, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🔥 Friday Tech Roundup: In this week's PowerBites, I dive into Anthropic's groundbreaking "AI consciousness" research program, Apple's dramatic Siri overhaul led by Vision Pro veterans, and the mind-blowing EV battery breakthrough deliver...
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Episode 112
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15:31

Power Bites - April 18, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🔥 This week in PowerBites: China bans "smart driving" terms after a fatal Xiaomi crash, former Y Combinator president launches a fund for safe AI startups, Tesla faces a lawsuit for allegedly manipulating odometers, and the Space Force u...
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Episode 111
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13:32

Power Bites - April 11, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🔥 Friday Power Bites: Global Markets Surge After EU-US Tariff Pause 🔥The "$23 billion handshake" between the EU and US has markets celebrating, with the S&P 500 jumping 10% in a single day! Plus, Samsung's Ballie robot gets a ...
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Episode 110
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13:07

Power Bites - April 4, 2025 Weekly Roundup
From Anthropic's revolutionary 'Learning Mode' in Claude for Education to the Hollywood-worthy corporate espionage saga between HR giants Rippling and Deel, this week's tech landscape is nothing short of fascinating. Add Google DeepMind's thoug...
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Episode 109
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15:42

Power Bites - March 27, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🔥 This week on Power Bites: Tesla's retro-futuristic diner that transforms charging into an experience, OpenAI's GPUs "melting" from viral Studio Ghibli-style image generations, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro "thinking model" outperforming comp...
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Episode 108
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9:31

Power Bites - March 21, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week I'm diving into Ben & Jerry's shocking CEO firing and what it means for corporate activism, Tesla's political firestorm erasing $800B in value, China's groundbreaking AI content labeling laws, Nvidia's mind-blowing new chips, and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 107
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14:43
