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Stage Zero Studio with Wil Waldon
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Stage Zero News is the flagship podcast from Stage Zero about SpaceX, Elon Musk, cutting-edge tech, and the future of everything. Every week, host Wil Waldon breaks down the biggest stories in space exploration, innovation, and emerging technology — and what they mean for the world ahead. From rockets and robots to AI and electric vehicles, Wil connects the dots and explores how today’s breakthroughs are shaping tomorrow.
Episodes
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Ukraine Reports Partial Starlink Restoration After Military Drone Disruptions
Ukrainian officials report disrupted drone missions after restrictions on satellite terminals in motion. An evening update points to partial restoration, while questions about the cause and the remaining Starshield limit continue.
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INSANE Starship Flight 14 Twist: HOURS IN ORBIT FOR FLIGHT 15?!
Starship Flight 14 may spend hours and multiple orbits around Earth before attempting to return to Starbase. Here is how SpaceX could use that time to test cryogenic boiloff, propellant settling, RF fuel gauges, delayed Raptor restart, power, navigation, and the systems Flight 15 may need for a...
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Texas Landowners Fight Starbase Annexation
The city of Starbase, a municipality closely tied to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is currently seeking to expand its borders by annexing over 7,000 acres of land in south Texas. This growth strategy aims to bolster the company's rocket manufacturing and launch capabilities for future missions to the moon...
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INSANE SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Update: ORBIT & FIRST-EVER SHIP CATCH?!
SpaceX wants Starship Flight 14 to carry viable payloads into orbit and then bring the upper stage back to the launch tower for its first catch attempt. The company is tentatively aiming for the end of August, although it still needs regulatory approval and a clean review of the previous flight....
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Disney’s $1.2 Billion Exit Signals the End of an Old Media Era
Disney has agreed to sell its stake in A+E Global Media to Hearst, giving Hearst full ownership of brands including A&E, History, and Lifetime. The move reflects Disney’s effort to reduce its exposure to traditional cable television as the media landscape continues to shift. In this episode, we...
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Disney and TikTok Are Rewriting the Streaming Playbook
Disney reported higher revenue, stronger streaming profits, and continued momentum from its parks and cruise business. Then it added an unexpected twist: a new partnership with TikTok designed to bring more short-form, creator-driven content into the Disney ecosystem. In this episode, we explore...
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SpaceX’s AI Spending Just Spooked Wall Street
SpaceX delivered a blockbuster first earnings report, with quarterly revenue up sharply and Starlink driving much of the growth. But investors focused on a much bigger number: the company’s enormous AI spending. In this episode, we unpack the collision between huge AI ambitions and short-term...
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Uber Eats Sued for Sham Priority Fees
A California resident has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Uber Eats, alleging that the company’s priority delivery fee is a deceptive trade practice. The legal complaint characterizes the "direct to you" surcharge as a sham, claiming that couriers often make additional stops despite...
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Anthropic $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement
$1.5 billion settlement in the copyright lawsuit between authors and the AI company Anthropic. The litigation centered on allegations that the developer utilized pirated datasets containing millions of books to train its Claude language model. While a judge previously suggested that AI training...
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Whole Foods replaces independent brands with data
Amazon has transformed Whole Foods into a more affordable grocery option by significantly expanding its 365 private-label brand. By controlling price hikes better than traditional competitors like Walmart, the retailer is successfully shedding its expensive reputation to attract a wider range of...
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SpaceX AI Spending Drains Starlink Profits
SpaceX prepares to release its inaugural earnings report as a public company, investors are intensely focused on the firm's massive capital expenditures. While the Starlink satellite division remains a profitable asset, the company is funneling billions into artificial intelligence and the...
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AI is the new heavy industry
A massive global surge in artificial intelligence infrastructure, noting that the production of specialized chips is expected to double every nine months. This rapid scaling, which could reach 200 million chips by 2028, is driving an unprecedented boom in data center construction and industrial...
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Lawsuits target xAI over explicit deepfakes
Lawsuits target xAI over explicit deepfakes
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Starships MASSIVE setback
SpaceX’s preparations for Starship Flight 13 hit an unexpected setback after the vehicle triggered an abort during testing on the launch pad.In this video, we break down what happened, what the abort could mean for the Flight 13 schedule, and why SpaceX may need additional testing before Starship...
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OpenAI alerts parents to violent teen threats
OpenAI is enhancing its safety features by informing parents when their teenagers are banned from ChatGPT for making violent threats. This update follows past criticisms regarding the company’s failure to report dangerous users to the proper authorities. Through linked accounts, guardians can now...
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Starship Has a Massive New Problem
SpaceX’s preparations for Starship Flight 13 hit an unexpected setback after the vehicle triggered an abort during testing on the launch pad.In this video, we break down what happened, what the abort could mean for the Flight 13 schedule, and why SpaceX may need additional testing before Starship...
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Apple sues OpenAI over hardware theft
Apple has initiated a major federal lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the artificial intelligence firm systematically stole trade secrets to accelerate its development of consumer hardware. The legal complaint details a coordinated effort involving former executives who allegedly encouraged…
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SpaceX Starship Flight 13 updates and news
Recent progress and upcoming milestones for SpaceX's Starship program, specifically focusing on the preparation for Flight 13 scheduled for mid-July 2026. Technical reports describe the testing of Booster 20 and Ship 40, alongside infrastructure upgrades like the construction of the massive…
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Why SpaceXAI Spent Sixty Billion on Cursor
SpaceXAI has officially launched Grok 4.5, a sophisticated artificial intelligence model developed in collaboration with the coding startup Cursor. This release follows a massive $60 billion acquisition of Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, marking a strategic shift to compete with industry...
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META says your Instagram handle is now a deepfake prompt
Major technology firms like Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and TikTok have shifted toward default-active AI training policies, automatically harvesting user data unless individuals manually intervene. Meta’s Muse Image model highlights this trend by allowing users to generate synthetic content from…
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Why banned Claude AI mostly manages spreadsheets
Anthropic has expanded its AI ecosystem with Claude Cowork and Claude Code, two agentic tools designed for autonomous task execution across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. While Claude Code serves as a specialized terminal-based assistant for developers managing complex codebases, Cowork...
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Latest SpaceX Starship Updates
The Starship system is a fully reusable, two-stage-to-orbit super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by SpaceX. The system is composed of a booster stage named Super Heavy and a second stage, also called Starship.Track everything happening ahead of SpaceX Starship Flight 13 in one place. This…
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Best AI for Work 2026: Claude vs ChatGPT, Tested
Both models are good enough that the right question is which one does the specific thing you need better. This episode breaks down where each one wins for actual work. The short version. Claude wins on writing quality, instruction-following, long-document analysis, and agentic work. ChatGPT wins…
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Building a Million Dollar social media app, live. No ads, no algorithm, no rage bait. - Ideation
I'm building a paid community platform in the open, and this stream is where the work happens.The idea is simple. Social media broke when it started optimizing for clicks and outrage. The feeds got loud, the news got dumped, and connecting with people got buried under engagement bait. This is an...
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Building a Million Dollar AI App - Day 1: AI Coaching with OpenAI Vision
Day 1 of building a million dollar AI app. I'm 20 years into software development and I use AI agents and tools like Lovable to ship faster than I ever could by hand. In this video I walk through the AI coaching feature I just implemented in Stable Manager Pro, an app that helps riding…
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Automate the boring parts of your business with Claude
Today I want to walk through the difference between an AI tool and an AI system, because the gap between those two things is where most of the money is. We're working with Claude and Claude Cowork today, nothing else. By the end of this you'll understand why one-off prompts don't compound no…
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How to Sell Software Built in Free Claude for $200 a Pop
Most people think selling software means building an app. It doesn't. A static HTML, CSS, and JS file solves real problems for local businesses, costs nothing to build with Claude's free tier, and sells for $200 a pop with the right framing. This episode walks through the whole process — what…
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How to choose what systems to automate with Anthropic's Claude
Most service businesses either automate the wrong things or try to automate everything at once. This episode walks through a simple process using Claude to figure out what's actually worth automating, what order to do it in, and what to leave alone.What You'll Walk Away With 1. A method for...
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The Podcaster's Claude Workflow That Turns One Episode Into Ten Pieces of Content
Wil walks through how he repurposes each Frontier AI Labs episode into a newsletter draft, five or more social posts, and a set of show notes using Claude. He covers how to set up a Claude Project with your own writing samples so the output matches your voice, how to prompt for each deliverable…
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Why Most AI Chatbots Make Your Business Look Worse
Today I want to talk about something I see constantly, which is small businesses putting AI chatbots on their websites and thinking they've solved a problem when they've actually created a new one. I'm going to walk through a better approach using three tools, Claude, Make, and Tally, and by the...
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ChatGPT vs Claude for Business Owners
Today I want to walk through the differences between ChatGPT and Claude and a third tool called NotebookLM that most people haven't heard of yet. By the end of this you'll know which tool to reach for in which situation, how to stop paying for two subscriptions that overlap, and how to pick the...
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How a Roofing Company Can Book More Jobs with AI
Today I want to walk through how a roofing company can use AI to book more jobs without hiring more office staff. The tools are Claude, Make, and Cal.com. By the end of this you'll know how to respond to inspection requests within a minute, generate quote ranges from photos and a zip code, and…
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The AI System Every Real Estate Agent Should Be Running
Today I want to walk through how to set up an AI system specifically for real estate agents using three tools. Claude, Make, and Tally. By the end of this you'll know how to qualify buyer leads before you waste time on a call, draft personalized follow-ups for cold prospects, and generate…
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Automating Customer Support Without Sounding Like a Chatbot
Today I want to walk through how to automate the customer support side of a small business using three tools. Claude, Make, and Gmail. By the end of this you'll know how to set things up so incoming emails get triaged by urgency automatically, the common questions get personalized replies drafted...
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The $500 AI System I'd Build for Any Small Business
Today I want to walk through how to put together a simple AI system for a small business using three tools. Claude, Make, and a form builder like Typeform or Tally. By the end of this you'll know how to set things up so new customer inquiries get answered automatically, leads who go quiet get...
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SpaceX pitches Starlink as a GPS alternative
The development of next-generation positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems to supplement or replace the aging Global Positioning System (GPS). SpaceX has formally proposed using its Starlink satellite constellation to provide low-Earth orbit (LEO) navigation services, highlighting its...
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OpenAI’s $14 Billion Problem and the New AI Cybersecurity War
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia are moving artificial intelligence beyond chatbots and into one of the most valuable markets in tech: cybersecurity and enterprise AI. OpenAI recently introduced Daybreak, a GPT-5.5-powered cybersecurity platform built to find software vulnerabilities before hackers...
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The OpenAI trial is exposing a brutal truth about Sam Altman
Mira Murati testimony, Sam Altman OpenAI ouster, Musk vs Altman trial, OpenAI lawsuit, Altman Murati texts, directionally very bad, OpenAI 2023 firing, Shivon Zilis testimony, ChatGPT launch board, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
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Anthropic Just Pulled a Terrible Move
Anthropic is testing a change that removes Claude Code from the Pro plan for some new users, and I think it is a mistake.In this video, I break down what changed, why people noticed so fast, and why this kind of pricing test sends a bad message to the exact users most likely to adopt Claude Code,...
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The Threat Musk Sent OpenAI Right Before Court
OpenAI's Sunday court filing exposed a private text exchange where Elon Musk pushed for settlement two days before trial, then threatened Greg Brockman and Sam Altman when Brockman pushed back. Inside the filing, the judge's ruling, the Kalshi market collapse, and what it all means for the rest…
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The Trial of OpenAI: Musk v. Altman Courtroom Showdown
A high-stakes legal confrontation has emerged in Oakland, California, as Elon Musk takes OpenAI and its leadership to court. The lawsuit centers on allegations that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman abandoned the organization's original nonprofit mission in favor of commercial interests and massive...
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Anthropic Mythos Automates 20 Hour Network Attacks
A significant escalation in digital risk following the emergence of Claude Mythos, an advanced AI model capable of autonomously breaching corporate networks. Reports from the UK’s AI Security Institute and various cybersecurity experts highlight that this technology can discover zero-day...
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Hydrogen Leaks and Filters Stall Artemis_II
NASA is currently addressing persistent hydrogen leaks and ground equipment failures hindering the Artemis 2 moon mission's preparation. Recent "confidence tests" intended to verify repairs to the Space Launch System rocket's fueling seals were only partially successful due to a faulty filter....
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Elon Musk's SpaceX acquires xAI in $1.25T tie-up
The deal values the combined company at roughly $1.2 trillion, stepping SpaceX up from about $800 billion and putting xAI north of $200 billion, per a source familiar with the transaction.
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SpaceX Starship Update
SpaceX is preparing to launch Starship Flight 12, the maiden flight of Block 3 vehicles. Booster 19 and Ship 39 will fly with Raptor 3 engines for the first time, generating 19 to 22 percent more thrust than Block 2. The launch window opens in late February or March 2026 from Pad 2 at Starbase....
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Space Debris, Nuclear Rockets, and Artemis II—This Week in Space
Space Debris, Nuclear Rockets, and Artemis II—This Week in Space
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NASA SLS Artemis 2 Moon Mission update
NASA SLS Artemis 2 Moon Mission update
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SpaceX Starship Flight 12 Update - Hardware Details, Flight Information, News from Starbase Texas
SpaceX is preparing to launch Starship Flight 12, the maiden flight of Block 3 vehicles. Booster 19 and Ship 39 will fly with Raptor 3 engines for the first time, generating 19 to 22 percent more thrust than Block 2. The launch window opens in late February or March 2026 from Pad 2 at Starbase....
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Launch Your Business Podcast in One Week
A step-by-step kickoff: define your goal and ideal customer (“avatar”), pick a simple format, write a clean intro/outro, brainstorm 8 starter episodes, and get your show live without overthinking. Join our free B2B Podcast Community >>> https://stagezeroindex.com
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How and Why to start a podcast for your business.
How and Why to start a podcast for your business.
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Stage Zero News is the flagship podcast from Stage Zero about SpaceX, Elon Musk, cutting-edge tech, and the future of everything. Every week, host Wil Waldon breaks down the biggest stories in space exploration, innovation, and emerging technology — and what they mean for the world ahead. From rockets and robots to AI and electric vehicles, Wil connects the dots and explores how today’s breakthroughs are shaping tomorrow.
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