Listen "Episode 123 - Altman vs. Musk, GitHub's fate, a $300M exit, and the escalating AI wars."
Episode Synopsis
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts new high-paying space jobs for future graduates and is reportedly launching a company to compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink. Following user backlash, the company has also committed to providing advance warning before removing older ChatGPT models. In other AI news, Google's Gemini will become more personalized by automatically remembering user details, and Anthropic has made its latest move in the competitive AI coding market. Amdocs employees have also reportedly been impacted by AI. In corporate developments, GitHub is becoming less independent from Microsoft after its CEO resigned, and the Israeli company Findings has been sold to an American firm for about $305 million. Separately, Starbucks in South Korea is asking customers to stop bringing desktop computers and printers into its cafes.https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transitionhttps://fortune.com/2025/08/11/starbucks-south-korea-policy-desktop-computer-printer-ban-cagongjokhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/757998/anthropic-just-made-its-latest-move-in-the-ai-coding-warshttps://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-151944949.htmlhttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/sj6pgcf00xghttps://www.theverge.com/openai/758537/chatgpt-4o-gpt-5-model-backlash-replacementhttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/syztlhdueghttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/skh7g2kdxghttps://www.theverge.com/news/758624/google-gemini-ai-automatic-memory-privacy-update
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