AI Sora tops the App Store (and freaks everyone out)
Send us a textOn this episode:Sora becomes the #1 app as people hand over their faces for fun.Meta’s “Vibes” feature makes employees cringe harder than the metaverse.Snapchat now charges to keep your Memories...forget?Instagram swaps payouts for rings.Mostly human, slightly AI-adjacent
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Meta reads your AI chats
Send us a textOn this episode:Meta will use your AI chats for ads. No opt-out. LOL.China rolls out AI tutors, robot pets, and therapy booths for K–12. Kids trust AI more than themselves.Apple yanks ICE-tracking apps. “Security concerns,” they say. Sure.Musk launches Grokpedia. Wikipedia, his way.All the tech, none of your DMs.
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Sam Altman deepfaked by his own creation.
Send us a textOn this episode:Sora 2 drops and the internet instantly deepfakes Sam Altman.Instagram swears it’s not listening to you… which somehow sounds worse.Amazon tests self-driving cars in D.C. Human drivers not included!Spotify’s Daniel Ek “steps up” to step back, leaving two CEOs to figure it out.Tech news served—straight to your brainwaves.
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Trump seals TikTok’s $14B ‘Made in America’ deal.
Send us a textOn this episode:Trump OKs $14B TikTok buyout, Americans now hold 80% stake.One in five U.S. adults now gets their news from TikTok.Hackers hide behind a fake Farmville to spam NYC with 30M texts a minute.Palantir pivots from surveillance state to selling $119 tote bags and merch.Peter Thiel gets called the Antichrist (it's a Joke… kinda)TikTok approved, probably.
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Meme coins just got Wall Street’s blessing
Send us a textOn this episodeMeme coins like Doge and Shiba get stockbroker approval — Wall Street becomes Vegas with better suits.Y Combinator now prefers founders to finish college before joining.Spotify finally cracks down on AI tracks — maybe your top artist won’t be Nvidia next year.Amazon slapped with $2.5B Prime settlement, would Bezos notice?Elon’s Grok chatbot lands a government deal — $0.42 per agency, politics included free of charge.Another story, another jaw drop.
This is the tech world’s daily stand-up: we skim the chaos and hand you the “so what” in under 15 minutes (our guarantee to busy founders). No fluff, a few laughs, then back to building.Caya is a startup founder, YouTube host (and confused capitalist). Kevin Casey White is a stand-up comedian who likes to hate on the tech that might replace him. We break down startups, AI, and money moves into plain-English, founder-ready takeaways—part quick explainer, part honest POV, part group-chat banter.