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
139 episodes
Power Bites - October 24, 2025 Weekly Roundup
π Did you know Amazon plans to replace 600,000 workers with robots while Meta just laid off 600 AI employees? Meanwhile, China is already selling humanoid robots for $1,400 (less than a MacBook) and Tesla is installing production lines to manuf...
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Power Bites - October 17, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week's Power Bites dives into the AI revolution hitting overdrive: OpenAI extending Sora while Hollywood panics, Apple bleeding top talent to Meta (one engineer got $200M!), Google's AI discovering actual cancer treatments, and both Bezos ...
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Episode 138
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Power Bites - October 10, 2025 Weekly Roundup
Robots worth $1.5 billion that know when they're being tested? A Samsung AI model with just 7 million parameters crushing Silicon Valley giants? This week on PowerBites, we unpack why Figure AI is valued at $39 billion without a market-ready pr...
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Episode 137
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Power Bites - October 3, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week in Power Bites: AI systems choosing human death over their goals (yes, you read that right), OpenAI hitting a mind-blowing $500B valuation, an AI band crushing a human band's 10-year fanbase in just 2 months, and Trump cutting $9.5B i...
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Episode 136
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Power Bites - September 26, 2026 Weekly Roundup
Stanford just coined a $9 million term you need to know β "workslop" (the AI-generated garbage costing companies millions). Meanwhile, Google's robots are literally thinking before acting, a Mexican teacher taught ChatGPT an ancient language, a...
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Episode 135
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Power Bites - September 19, 2025 Weekly Roundup
This week in Power Bites: AI is lying to us (OpenAI proved it), Albania appointed an AI minister, Meta's glasses read your thoughts, and Stanford's AI just designed viruses better than nature.Today's newsletter reveals why 80% of ...
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Episode 134
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Power Bites - September 12, 2025
While you slept, a tech stock jumped 978% in a single day, Albania appointed the world's first AI government minister, and Microsoft just declared independence from OpenAI after pumping $13 billion into their partnership. These are just three o...
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Episode 133
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Power Bites - July 25, 2025 Weekly Roundup
π 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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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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Power Bites - July 11, 2025 Weekly Roundup
π 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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Power Bites, 4th of July, 2025
π§ 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 β welcome to this week's Power Bites! Today's editio...
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Episode 123
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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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Power Bites June 20, 2025
Just dropped this week's Power Bites newsletter! π 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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Power Bites - June 13, 2025 Weekly Roundup
Continuing my final leadership module at Penn, and wowβexamining 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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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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Power Bites May 23, 2025 Weekly Roundup
π 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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Power Bites - May 9, 2025 Weekly Roundup
π₯ 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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