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IBM is making one of the biggest bets in its history, investing $10 billion in an effort to build a practical quantum computer by 2029. Jim Love looks at why the company that once stunned the world with Watson's Jeopardy victory is now wagering its future on quantum computing instead of competing head-to-head in the generative AI race.
Also in this episode, Elon Musk briefly becomes the world's first trillionaire before slipping back below the trillion-dollar mark just days later as SpaceX's valuation retreats, a reminder of how quickly paper wealth can change.
NVIDIA announces a new liquid-cooling architecture designed to dramatically reduce water consumption in AI data centres, a move that could help address one of the fastest-growing sources of public opposition to AI infrastructure.
Finally, we examine the growing political influence of major AI companies. As organizations linked to OpenAI and Anthropic spend millions of dollars in the 2026 U.S. election cycle, a larger question emerges: should the companies that increasingly shape how we access information also become major political players?
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:36 The World's First Trillionaire Lasted Less Than a Week
02:03 IBM Bets Its Future on Quantum Computing
06:04 NVIDIA Says It Has a Solution to AI's Water Problem
08:08 Should AI Companies Be Political Power Brokers?
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SpaceX investors are getting a reality check.
After soaring from its $150 IPO price to roughly $220, SpaceX shares have fallen back below their IPO level, raising questions about valuation, debt, governance, and whether the AI boom can justify the enormous capital spending now expected from leading technology companies.
Meanwhile, Anthropic is pushing AI deeper into the workplace with Claude Tag for Slack. The new feature lets users summon Claude directly into conversations, follow discussion context, summarize threads, break projects into tasks, and help teams collaborate without constantly switching applications. It's another step toward AI agents that function as digital coworkers rather than simple chatbots.
And opposition to AI data centers is expanding beyond environmental groups and local residents. Conservative organizations are now joining critics who argue that massive AI infrastructure projects consume too much power, receive excessive subsidies, and provide too little benefit to local communities. New polling suggests public skepticism toward both AI and large-scale data center construction may be growing.
In this episode:
• SpaceX stock falls below IPO price
• Questions about valuation, debt, and AI spending
• Anthropic launches Claude Tag for Slack
• AI assistants move closer to becoming workplace agents
• Conservative groups join data center opposition
• New polling reveals growing AI skepticism
• The challenge of earning a social license to operate
Timestamps
00:00 Headlines and Setup
01:44 SpaceX Stock Reality Check
03:57 Claude Joins Slack
04:28 AI Coworkers Become Agents
06:38 Right Wing Data Center Revolt
08:22 Polling Shows AI Backlash
09:15 Social License to Operate
10:43 Sign Off
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Jim Love reports on the top technology stories for June 23, 2026.
A severed optical fibre cable triggered a major internet outage that started with Reddit and spread across a wide range of online services. At nearly the same time, Anthropic's Claude AI suffered a significant outage, highlighting how dependent businesses have become on cloud infrastructure and AI platforms. The episode examines why reliability matters and how the difference between 99.999% uptime and 98% uptime can translate into seconds versus hours of downtime.
Also in this episode:
• Perplexity introduces a new memory system for its AI agents, designed to learn from previous mistakes, improve accuracy, and reduce token costs. Jim explains why this isn't true model learning but could still be a major advance for agentic AI.
• Chinese memory manufacturers including CXMT and YMTC are gaining traction despite U.S. semiconductor restrictions. The story explores China's growing DRAM and NAND industry, future memory shortages, and whether sanctions are creating competitors instead of customers.
• General Motors faces criticism after deploying additional robots on its production lines. The discussion looks beyond humanoid robots to the broader trend of versatile automation, cobots, dark factories, and what reshoring manufacturing may look like in an increasingly automated world.
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00:00 Top Headlines Today
00:29 Internet and Claude Outages
01:46 Why Reliability Matters
03:14 Perplexity Agents With Memory
04:57 Memory Is Not Learning
06:52 China Challenges Memory Giants
10:26 Robots Threaten Factory Jobs
12:52 Dark Factories and Reshoring
14:10 Closing and Book Request

AI Hitting a Wall? LeCun Slams xAI, YouTube 'AI Slop' Surge, Microsoft Sued, and Korea's AI Bonus Inflation
In this June 22, 2026 episode of #Trending, host Jim Love covers Yann LeCun's claim that xAI is "kind of a failure" after losing much of its founding team and his warning that large language models may soon hit diminishing returns, arguing instead for "world models" and predicting a potential pricing and funding reckoning for AI labs. A Kapwing study finds about 21% of recommendations to new YouTube accounts are low-quality "AI slop," with a broader "brain rot" category at 33%, highlighting platform quality challenges. Microsoft faces a shareholder lawsuit alleging it downplayed AI investment costs and their impact on Azure growth, which Microsoft denies. The Bank of Korea warns massive AI-related bonuses at Samsung and SK Hynix could contribute to inflationary pressures. Love also invites early discounted readers for his upcoming book, The Compassion Virus, via technewsday.com/.ca.
00:00 Today's AI Headlines
00:35 LeCun Slams xAI
01:37 LLMs Hitting Limits
02:03 World Models Next
05:11 YouTube AI Slop Surge
07:17 Platforms vs Spam
08:47 Microsoft AI Lawsuit
10:08 AI Bonuses Fuel Inflation
13:15 Book Launch Request
14:19 Sign Off

The hosts discuss a favorite scene from the 1981 film Caveman before introducing Project Synapse, their weekly show on AI and new technology. They cover a hectic week in AI news, including talk of SpaceX buying Cursor for $60B, Cursor's role as an AI-enabled IDE using multiple models, and concerns over token costs and profitability. They describe Anthropic taking Fable offline after a government order cutting off foreign nationals, raising fears about reliance on U.S.-based AI and digital sovereignty, and note Europe's renewed push toward open-source alternatives. They highlight open-source and lower-cost models such as Mistral, DeepSeek, and GLM 5.2, Google's strategy of free tools and local processing, and a DeepMind paper "From AGI to ASI." The episode ends with Midjourney's announced non-radiation full-body scanner concept and spa rollout plans for 2027.
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00:00 Caveman Music Discovery
01:57 Show Intro and Hosts
03:03 SpaceX Buys Cursor
07:23 Is Cursor Still Best
09:18 Fable AI Vanishes
11:20 Government Shutdown Fallout
13:57 Digital Sovereignty Wakeup
18:09 Open Source Reality Check
20:23 Economics Detour Debate
22:30 Governments Back Open Source
27:00 Mistral DeepSeek Shift
29:51 Google Gives AI Away
31:35 Avatars Tokens and X
32:54 Local Models Slow Iteration
33:58 Local AI Smart Speakers
34:40 Chrome Model Backlash
35:20 BitTorrent Style Inference
37:43 Distrust And Data Centers
38:19 Small Models And Transformers
39:45 Google AI Tool Rundown
41:17 DeepMind From AGI To ASI
45:40 Beyond Transformers Next Minds
48:19 AI Splintering And Niches
49:20 Diffusion And SubQ Attention
54:39 Forking And Competition
57:26 Monopolies And CEO Culture
01:02:30 Midjourney Medical Scanner
01:08:59 Innovation Hopeful Wrap