Episodes featuring TBPN
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John Coogan and Jordi Hays join TBPN to discuss OpenAI's new 5.6 models, Meta's AI data strategy, and a cookie-stuffing fraud scandal around Phoebe Gates's affiliate platform FIA.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down the crowded AI model releases of July 2026, covering GPT 5.6, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, and Grok 4.5 and what they mean for builders.
TBPN hosts John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Eric Seufert, and Josh Lindgren discuss a busy week of AI model releases and dig into Meta's ad strategy, new robot hand tech, and how AI changes distribution.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Blue Origin's $10B raise, the collapsed Getty-Shutterstock merger, and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch with new voice and computer use features.
Ben Thompson joins TBPN to explain how Xbox failed by chasing corporate goals over consumer demand, and how Game Pass and costly acquisitions made things worse.
TBPN hosts and Ben Thompson discuss Blue Origin's $10B funding round at a $130B valuation, Prime Intellect's $130M AI raise, and why Xbox lost the console war to Sony.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss China's possible AI export controls, SK Hynix's $28B IPO, and US banks moving to own their own payment rails.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays join TBPN to discuss Xbox layoffs and management problems, Tesla's new Model Y, and a $12.8M lottery ticket ownership dispute.
TBPN hosts John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Baiju Bhatt, Daniel English, and Michele Catasta cover Microsoft Xbox's 3,200 job cuts, Ferrari's new manual-feel hybrid transmission, EV accessories, and AI versus algorithmic feeds.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays join TBPN to discuss OpenAI's equity offer to the Trump administration, Jersey Mike's IPO, SpaceX's AI phone prototype, and how AI is shrinking the app store.
TBPN hosts and guests cover Fable's unban, AI nationalization debates, federal retirement digitization, SpaceX's phone prototype, private aviation growth, open-source AI, and commercial nuclear power.
TBPN, John Coogan, and Jordi Hays debate why Meta is selling cloud computing capacity instead of building AI products that justify its massive infrastructure spending.
TBPN hosts Mark Pincus and others to discuss IPO pitfalls, Meta's cloud pivot, Lime's micro-mobility survival, and a new privacy-preserving data startup.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays join TBPN to discuss Rocket Lab acquiring Iridium, Meta entering prediction markets, and what ordinary people actually want from tech over the next 20 years.
TBPN hosts and guests cover AI hardware startups, labor market effects of AI adoption, peptide regulation, and solo entrepreneurship trends.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss China's new open-source AI model closing the gap with US frontier models, and why memory chip makers are quietly taking a large share of AI profits.
John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Edward Gorberstein, and Chad Rigetti discuss China's rise in open-source AI, Google throttling Meta, Micron's chip price surge, and two founders building new AI infrastructure.
TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays recap Cannes Lions and discuss smart glasses, AI export restrictions, the creator economy, and data center politics.
John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Midjourney's new medical imaging scanner, Noam Shazeer joining OpenAI, and Dean Ball's move to OpenAI as policy lead.
Jake Paul joins TBPN to talk about raising a $100 million growth fund, his barbell investment strategy, and how he pivoted boxing into the streaming era.