Episode 385: OpenAI's Restricted GPT-5.6, Rocket Lab's Starlink Challenge, and Microsoft's Historic Collapse

In this episode, we recap major developments across AI, space, and tech: OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under strict government evaluation frameworks with three pricing tiers; Rocket Lab acquires Iridium Communications for $8 billion to challenge SpaceX's Starlink dominance; Meta unveils Brain2Qwerty version two, achieving 78% accuracy in decoding complete sentences from non-invasive brain scans; and Microsoft faces its worst month since the dot-com crash, losing $570 billion in market value amid investor concerns that AI could cannibalize core products. We also investigate FindClout's undisclosed advertising network operating through Discord, examine Venezuela's catastrophic earthquake response amid political instability, and cover Google's upgraded Veo video generation, the A24-DeepMind filmmaking partnership, and Cursor's new mobile AI coding agent platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.