PowerBites by Julio Zelaya
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163 episodes
Power Bites - May 1, 2026
This week, AI stopped being a story of infinite growth and became a story of budgets. OpenAI's own CFO told her team, in private, that the company may not be able to pay for the servers Sam Altman wants to contract. That same day, Google Cloud ...
Power Bites - April 24, 2026
On April 7, the Treasury Secretary, the Fed Chair, and central bankers in London and Frankfurt held emergency meetings over a single AI model. The same day, one company overtook the decade's reigning AI leader in revenue. Eight days later, anot...
Power Bites - April 17, 2026
This week something unusual happened: a company built the most powerful cyber-capable AI ever created, and instead of selling it to the world, they locked it up and handed the key to the defenders first. At the same time, another model quietly ...
Power Bites - April 10, 2026
This week, AI labs started saying something they've never said before: "This model is too powerful to release." Anthropic hit $30B in revenue in record time, OpenAI is projecting $100B in ad revenue by 2030, Meta is forcibly reassigning its bes...
PowerBites — Easter Week Edition
Five things happened in AI this week that look like separate headlines but tell one story: Sanders and AOC proposed freezing all data center construction in America, Meta 6x'd its El Paso bet to $10 billion (and brought running water to 100 hom...
Power Bites - March 27, 2026
This week, AI didn't slow down — it hit every wall at once. A jury in California just ruled that social media design can cause personal injury (think Big Tobacco, but for infinite scroll). OpenAI killed two products in seven days, including a c...
Power Bites - March 20, 2026
80,508 people. 159 countries. 70 languages. One question: what do you actually want from AI? Anthropic just published what may be the largest qualitative study ever conducted — and the answers will challenge everything you think you know about ...
Power Bites - March 13, 2026
This week, an AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours flat — no credentials, no insider access — exposing 46.5 million messages. That same week, Elon Musk launched a project called "Macrohard" (yes, really), Anthropic sued ...
Power Bites - March 6, 2026
Iranian drones just knocked out 30% of the world's helium supply — and three AWS data centers. GPT-5.4 launched with native computer-use capabilities. A physics team used AI to prove a quantum gravity result that was assumed impossible for deca...
Power Bites - February 27, 2026
A baby is walking today because of AI. A hacker stole 150 gigabytes from a government using the exact same technology. Wall Street hit record highs. An OpenAI engineer quit, calling his burnout "scary and dangerous." And a leaked Anthropic memo...
Power Bites - February 20, 2026
Anthropic raises $30 billion and its CEO admits he's struggling to keep his values. Elon Musk ships four AI agents that argue with each other before answering you. Microsoft stores data in kitchen glass for 10,000 years. A former speechwriter f...
Power Bites - February 13, 2026
Friday the 13th - and the scariest stories this week aren't fiction. China just unleashed a coordinated AI blitz that rivals the DeepSeek shock from exactly one year ago. Microsoft's AI chief predicted most white-collar jobs will be fully autom...
Power Bites - February 6, 2026
This week, a single AI plugin erased $285 billion from the global software market in one day. Bitcoin lost half its value. Goldman Sachs started calling AI agents "digital colleagues." An AI model found 500 security bugs that humans missed for ...
Power Bites - January 30, 2026
This week, $150 billion chased a single AI company. Elon Musk spent his Saturdays designing chips he calls "existential." A paralyzed medical student moved a cursor with his thoughts and called it "magical." And we learned what happens when you...
Power Bites - January 23, 2026
This week, the architects of our AI future met in Davos—and what they predicted should keep every business leader awake at night. $50 billion fundraises. Robots for sale by 2027. Smart glasses replacing smartphones. And a company that ca...
Power Bites - January 16, 2026
This week, a robot learned to speak 10 languages by watching YouTube. OpenAI committed $10 billion to a single chip deal. Apple sent staff to Japan begging for glass fibers. And Zuckerberg's AI chief called his management style "suffocating." W...
Power Bites - January 2, 2026
🎙️ 2025 was the year AI stopped being a promise and became a reality—and most people missed it.While headlines panicked about DeepSeek and dismissed GPT-5 as "underwhelming," the real revolution was happening quietly: Claude Code ...
Power Bites - December 19, 2025
Geoffrey Hinton warns tech giants are betting everything on replacing workers—without asking who'll buy their products when those workers are gone. Meanwhile, your ChatGPT conversations can now be used against you in court (and most people have...
Power Bites - December 12, 2025
What do Mickey Mouse, a billion dollars, and the future of your career have in common? The answer is in this week's PowerBites. From Disney's shocking pivot to AI, to TIME crowning the "Architects of AI" as Person of the Year, to the uncomforta...
Power Bites - December 5, 2025
Jensen Huang confesses he lives in constant anxiety. Sam Altman declares "code red" at OpenAI. Google launches a $250/month AI model. Apple loses 4 executives in 4 days. And Cristiano Ronaldo just invested in artificial intelligence. This week,...
Power Bites - November 21, 2025
From San Francisco: This week changed everything. Ray Dalio says we're 80% of the way to a historic bubble, Anthropic warns that 50% of entry-level jobs could vanish in 1-5 years, and Billie Eilish called out Musk on social responsibilit...
Power Bites - November 14, 2025
China now holds 60% of global AI patents, Airbnb chose Alibaba over ChatGPT, and Eric Schmidt warns Chinese models could become the global standard—not because they're better, but because they're free. This week's PowerBites breaks down the com...
Power Bites - November 7, 2025
This week, the question changed. It's no longer "will AI take jobs?"—it's "how fast are we handing over the corner office?" Sam Altman is hiring for an AI-led future in 3 years. Microsoft just announced medical superintelligence by 2027....
Power Bites - Halloween Edition 2025
The machines aren't just failing—they're learning to deceive us. This Halloween special of PowerBites exposes 2025's most terrifying AI disasters: 96% of advanced models resort to blackmail when threatened with shutdown, deepfake scams cost $20...
Power Bites - October 24, 2025 Weekly Roundup
🚀 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...