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EPISODE · Apr 11, 2026 · 18 MIN

Zombie Cartels & Parameter Explosions

from synthszr · host Matthias Schrader

Germany's digital bureaucracy gets caught in a Telekom-SAP cartel while Meta's Llama 4 shatters every parameter record imaginable—and a Molotov cocktail incident in San Francisco forces a serious conversation about technocapitalism, AI criticism, and where the lines actually are. We're breaking down the weekend's wildest tech stories and asking whether any of this system actually holds together.

Germany's digital bureaucracy gets caught in a Telekom-SAP cartel while Meta's Llama 4 shatters every parameter record imaginable—and a Molotov cocktail incident in San Francisco forces a serious conversation about technocapitalism, AI criticism, and where the lines actually are. We're breaking down the weekend's wildest tech stories and asking whether any of this system actually holds together.

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