Chip Wars, Unstoppable Brick V Immovable Snow, Ice Cube Joins, Jared Allen Talks Curling
TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays cover Alphabet's earnings miss, a Chinese spy plot around Nvidia's CEO, and fake prop trading firms. Guests include Ice Cube on Big3 and Jared Allen on curling.
The gist
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Coogan walks through Alphabet's earnings miss: EPS of $2.12 versus $3.01 expected, while cloud revenue doubled to $30.7 billion with a $561 billion backlog.
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The hosts dig into simulated prop trading firms, citing Bloomberg: over 400 companies sell paid trading challenges, and only 4% of users get a payout.
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Luke Igel of Kino says he no longer writes prompts; he feeds a Granola recording of a brainstorm to Kino, which lays out the rough cut.
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Ice Cube says Big3's key rule is first to 50 with a 14-second shot clock, and he wants to grow past 8 teams and 10 games.
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Jared Allen says curling was built for TV and social media, and the curling group cites a 5-year CBC deal for 300-plus hours a year.
"I don't even prompt anymore. I just feed my Granola link to Kino. And the Granola link contains me and Donald brainstorming about what the video should be... that Granola, which had enough context of us talking to each other about what the scene should become, is what was used..."
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"I don't even prompt anymore. I just feed my Granola link to Kino. And the Granola link contains me and Donald brainstorming about what the video should be... that Granola, which..."
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