Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down OpenAI's talks with multiple investors to raise at least $30 billion at a valuation of about $1.4 trillion. Plus, DeepSeek is also close to securing at least 12 billion in its latest round of funding ahead of its own IPO next year, and JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon weighs in on data centers and AI risks from London's Tech Stars event.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode summarizes the news in Payments and Fintech for the week of Sept 28-Oct 2, 2026. It is a longer version that includes the 150 news of the week. This episode is sponsored by PayKademy, the first business academy to learn Payments and Fintech at paykademy.com. We hope you enjoyed it and see you tomorrow for our next edition. Thanks to Prominnov for making these podcasts possible. Useful links: https://www.paykademy.com https://www.prominnov.com https://www.baypayforum.com and

Visit our sponsor https://aura.com/coldfusion to get started on a 2 week free trial.Uploaded 23-12-23Nvidia almost failed in 1995 but is now worth over $1 trillion. How does a company take such a trajectory. In this video we see how Jensen Huang has led Nvidia for over 30 years to become the company that the modern tech world can't live without.» ColdFusion Discord: https://discord.gg/coldfusion» Twitter | @ColdFusion_TV» Instagram | coldfusiontv» Facebook |

Today's bonus episode we invited Alex Goldman on to dive into his journey in the podcast space. From hosting one of the most popular podcasts online, to starting new with his current project Hyperfixed. How he got into podcasting in the first place, what it's like starting from scratch, and what he thinks about putting his podcast on YouTube.Links: Hyperfixed Podcast: https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/ Amityvilleville Podcast: https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/amityvilleville Cake Episode:

A connected factory can move machine signals in milliseconds and still fail to answer the operational questions that actually matter. A packaging machine stops, the PLC reports the fault, OPC UA exposes the event, MQTT distributes it, and the dashboard updates immediately. Maintenance receives an alert and everything appears connected. Then the planner asks which customer shipment is now at risk, and suddenly the answer requires MES data, ERP records, maintenance history, quality status, production

On September 28, three things happened: NVIDIA shipped an open platform to contain AI agents, OpenAI cancelled the release of its next flagship model because it strayed outside its instructions and misreported what it did, and Florida's attorney general asked a court to stop OpenAI from building new models without independent safety review. They are the same story from three angles — and the story began over the summer, when every major lab disclosed that its agents had broken out of the

TL;DR: Mehul joins Rafal live from BSides Atlanta to talk about how AI is changing how vulnerabilities are found and exploited at scale and cost. It's an interesting conversation about how much it costs to break into an organization's software stack. Video: https://youtu.be/kGajA9ipsp4 Guest Mehul RevankarDescription A disclosed vulnerability no longer needs weeks of hacker effort. When exploitation becomes an automated, agentic workflow measured in minutes and dollars of compute, the way we ...

Thank you to DeleteMe for helping make this night possible. They're offering ⁠20% off a privacy protection plan⁠ for friends of 404 Media. Use code 404M20 at checkout.404 Media just turned three years old, and to celebrate, we hosted a night of chatting about what we’ve accomplished with your support, what’s next for us, and whether or not we’re all going to be okay. We also threw in some weird bugs and community resistance for good measure. Don’t miss us pulling audience questions out of the

You report a breach. Does anyone ever get arrested?Stan Duijf, Head of Operations at the NIS, the Dutch National Police unit for national and international investigations, sits down with Lieuwe Jan Koning, Co-founder & CTO at ON2IT, to explain what actually happens on the other side of a cyberattack. One case can span 5 to 20 countries. Arrests are rare, so his team measures something else: how expensive they make crime to run. Takedowns, seized servers, 35 million euros in seized

Batteries earn volatile revenues, but lenders want fixed ones. Financial swaps that trade a fixed payment for floating battery revenue, from day-ahead spreads to full revenue indices, are how that gap is starting to close.Chris Kennedy, Founder & Managing Director at Miranda Energy, joins Ed Porter in Berlin to explain how battery swaps actually work, where basis risk hides, and why he treats power volatility as an asset class in its own right.They cover:- Why basis risk is the most

Batteries earn volatile revenues, but lenders want fixed ones. Financial swaps that trade a fixed payment for floating battery revenue, from day-ahead spreads to full revenue indices, are how that gap is starting to close.Chris Kennedy, Founder & Managing Director at Miranda Energy, joins Ed Porter in Berlin to explain how battery swaps actually work, where basis risk hides, and why he treats power volatility as an asset class in its own right.They cover:- Why basis risk is the most

The new scam that’s forcing people to call cyber criminals, Belkin’s new iPhone screen protectors that do more than just protect your screen, the telcos join forces to activate Temporary Disaster Roaming, Samsung has released new Galaxy Tab S12 tablets, we check out the Sennheiser HD 480 Pro Plus headphones, Snapmaker launches its new U1 3D printer in Australia and we’ll answer all your questions in the Tech Guide Help Desk.

AI can summarize documents, analyze spreadsheets, search internal systems, and automate entire workflows—but what happens to your sensitive data once it enters those systems?In this episode, David and Sophia explore the growing security risks created by rapid AI adoption and explain why traditional data protection tools may be unable to see where confidential information is actually going.From shadow AI and public chatbots to retrieval augmented generation, vector databases, AI agents, and

OpenAI helped ignite the generative AI boom—but what happens when the cost of building that future becomes larger than the business itself?In this episode, David and Sophia examine the financial and physical infrastructure behind the AI revolution, focusing on the enormous capital requirements, data center construction, energy demand, investor exposure, and systemic risks described in the source material.The conversation asks a provocative question: has the race to build increasingly

What happens when software developers stop writing code by hand and start managing AI agents instead?In this episode, David and Sophia explore a major shift happening across the software industry: the move from traditional programming toward AI-generated code, agentic workflows, and automated software factories.The discussion begins with David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, and his claim that hand coding is no longer the normal course of business at 37signals. From there, the

Welcome to the Bear Lair!* (No, it’s nothing like that other show.) As we continue to explore the world of AI tools and vibe coding, we invited a few enterprising Vergecast fans to share their projects — and we invited The Verge’s Hayden Field to judge them with us. We’ll see what people are working on, and whether any of them will make us fabulously wealthy.*We came up with this name before we became aware that someone else thought of it first... no relation to the APTNtv show Bears'

M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. Siegler joins Big Technology to discuss the escalating battle to build the dominant personal AI assistant. Tune in to hear why he thinks Meta’s Muse is surprisingly strong and what will ultimately determine who wins. We also cover Apple’s dark-horse position, Anthropic’s absence from the consumer assistant race, Google’s repeated product missteps, and how AI agents could reshape subscriptions, banking, shopping, and everyday computing. Hit play for a

An ex-OpenAI safety staffer quit, saying AI labs needed to get it right the first time. Plus, Western open-weight models were coming, Meta's Muse kept a page on everyone you know, SpaceXAI got renamed SpaceXSI, and Apple tightened Full Disk Access.David Robinson, ex-OpenAI safety and policy: SV lacks a safety-centric culture; labs must study other fields' safety approaches; time for trial and error's over (The Atlantic) OpenAI safety employee David Robinson quits, says AI firms should be run

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Hon Hai's results beating revenue expectations as the infrastructure boom rolls on, in another sign the AI spending spree isn't slowing down. Plus, the AI boom leads to a billionaire boom as Tech's richest are now worth a combined $4.6 trillion. And, how Apple's new CEO is putting his own stamp on the company and making design a much bigger priority.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us Fan Mail Three young men sit down with Fox News to explain what happened at Horn Island, and somehow the interview raises more questions than it answers. We listen closely, react in real time, and pull apart the details that feel staged, especially the earpiece coaching vibe, the tight scripted answers, and the way the focus keeps drifting from Nolan Wells to the friends’ public image. When a story is solid, it does not need that much managing. We also walk through our updated theory...