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• Amazon Q3 earnings preview, 2026-10-30
  Breaks down Amazon's capex and cash outflow
  Walks through Amazon's third-quarter numbers: $77 billion of quarterly capex, 2% online sales growth, an 11% advertising gain and a $42.4 billion free cash outflow, with Jassy flagging higher 2027 outlays. Then pivots to the hosts' own question about what Amazon is actually building.
• Binance's $6.3B heist, 2026-10-30
  Reconstructs the EIP-7702 sweeper and the nonce
  Opens with the record $6.3 billion Binance breach and walks through the freeze, the SAFU shortfall and the EIP-7702 sweeper reconstruction, including the 50 signed authorizations and the single nonce that landed.
• Alphabet's Q3 miss, 2026-10-29
  Frames the miss as an innovator's dilemma
  Walks through Alphabet's Q3 print: negative free cash flow of $9.07 billion, a narrow revenue miss, search ad growth down to 12%, and capex up to $51.4 billion. Frames it as the innovator's dilemma, whether Google's AI build-out is strangling the search cash cow funding it.
• DoorDash buys Instacart, 2026-10-29
  Breaks down the $17 billion deal terms
  Walks through the $17 billion DoorDash-Instacart deal: the $65 per share price and 26% premium, board approvals, the plan to keep Instacart's brand and app, and the expected close in late 2027 or 2028. Frames it as market consolidation, noting it is DoorDash's largest deal, past Wolt and Deliveroo.
• The Alice Huang spy report, 2026-10-29
  Reports Trump was briefed and did not act
  Opens the show on the New York Times report: US officials concluded Megaspeed's Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset with a years-long relationship with Jensen Huang, Trump was briefed about a year ago and did not act, and Jensen Huang never got a defensive briefing. Nvidia's John Rizzo calls Megaspeed an ordinary customer.
• Amazon's Echo fall event, 2026-10-28
  Adds the Echo Studio and Dot specs
  Walks through two more devices from the same Amazon event: the $249.99 Echo Studio with Home Camera, its room monitoring and Fire TV video calls, and the $99.99 Echo Dot with the AZ3 chip, a fourth mic, a Zigbee/Matter/Thread hub and a Wi-Fi extender. Reads the camera as part of a broader push to put security hardware in home gadgets.
• Amazon's Echo fall event, 2026-10-28
  Details the Echo Time's sleep sensing
  Walks through the Echo Time from The Verge's hands-on: the 3.2-inch touchscreen, the sub-0.3-nit dimming, and the ultrasound sleep sensing that wakes users up to an hour early. The card had the price and the name; this fills in how the sleep feature actually works.
• Amazon's Echo fall event, 2026-10-28
  Reports the Photo Frame's exact pricing
  Reads out TechCrunch's hands-on with the Alexa Photo Frame: the 10-inch semi-matte anti-glare screen, Amazon Photos integration, and Alexa Plus picking smiling shots and skipping screenshots and receipts. Adds the exact pricing tiers the card only had as $200-plus.
• Amazon's Echo fall event, 2026-10-28
  Breaks down the Show 16 hardware
  Walks the Echo Show 16 hardware from The Verge's hands-on: 10% more viewing area than the Show 15, a 40% thinner frame, 10 drivers, a $570 NanoMatte option, a 13MP camera with Visual ID at 17 feet, and a MediaTek chip instead of the AZ-3. Frames it against the HomeView on price.
• Amazon's Echo fall event, 2026-10-28
  Recaps the fall devices event
  Covers Amazon's fall devices event: the $500 Echo Show 16, $200 Echo Time, Alexa Photo Frame and Echo Studio, Panos Panay's slower-rollout rationale, and a preview of the 3D Alexa home map.
• Touchscreen MacBook Pro pricing, 2026-10-28
  Walks the touchscreen MacBook specs
  Walks the touchscreen MacBook Pro announcement spec by spec - Pro-LED XDR display, Dynamic Island, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, $2,899 and $3,399 - and frames it as Apple reversing two decades of Jobs and Cook opposition, with new CEO John Ternus introducing it.
• Anthropic's $2T IPO slip, 2026-10-27
  Reads the reality check on the S-1
  Reads The Information's take that the S-1 is a reality check for AI skeptics, citing 85% gross margin on serving existing models and a swing from a $1.6 billion burn a year earlier to $3.5 billion in free cash flow.
• Anthropic's $2T IPO slip, 2026-10-27
  Reads Levine on the prospectus risks
  Reads Matt Levine's essay on the prospectus: the biggest risks listed are risks Anthropic poses to everyone else, and the five-class structure separates founder control from economic stake. Commentary and comparison, no new filing facts.
• Anthropic's $2T IPO slip, 2026-10-27
  Adds the founder succession mechanism
  Runs through the S-1's customer tiers, the targeted November 16 IPO week and the 94 pages of risk factors, then goes to the Forbes find: a founder succession mechanism in the attached Founders LLC agreement, with ranked lists of up to 10 successors each.
• Microsoft AI buyouts, 2026-10-27
  Retells the Microsoft buyout offer numbers
  Reads the Bloomberg reporting on the buyout offer in full: the 223,000 headcount, the participating divisions, the excluded data center and quantum roles, and Coleman's memo. A detailed retelling that stays inside the numbers already on the record.
• Apple's M6 MacBook Pro and iMac, 2026-10-27
  Reads the M6 specs and pricing off the blogs
  Reads the announcement straight off 9to5Mac and The Verge: the M6 MacBook Pro's ports, camera, charging and $1,999 price, and the M6 iMac at $1,499 that skips the M5 generation. Notes the M6 is Apple's first two-nanometer chip.
• OpenAI's ETH refutation, 2026-10-27
  Covers OpenAI's claimed refutation of ETH
  Covers OpenAI's October 27 release of three results, including a claimed refutation of the exponential time hypothesis via a sub-exponential 3SAT algorithm. Notes the external shepherds and that the AGMAI panel recommended the day before against designating first recipients of output.
• Black October, 2026-10-26
  Pulls the Black October cluster into a wider frame
  Pulls the Black October cluster into a wider frame: Microsoft says Artex, a Chinese open-source AI hacking tool, was used against hundreds of companies, and Sophos watched the Aurora ransomware group move from Anthropic's models to Moonshot's Kimi.
• Meta's $95B raise, 2026-10-26
  Lays out the structure of Meta's raise
  Lays out the structure of Meta's $95 billion raise: $35 billion in underwritten equity with NVIDIA, AMD and Broadcom as cornerstone investors for up to $5 billion, and $60 billion at-the-market from Q1 2027. Sets it against Alphabet's $90 billion June financing and the 7% drop after Meta's capex warning.
• Apple's OLED iPad mini, 2026-10-26
  Runs through the new iPad mini's spec sheet
  Runs through the new iPad mini's spec sheet from The Verge and 9to5Mac: the 8.5-inch OLED screen, A20 Pro chip, IP67 rating, acoustic display and the $100 nanotexture option, with pre-orders Wednesday and shipping November 6.