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Tech Insider Weekly brings you candid, in-depth conversations with the founders building tomorrow's technology. Each week, our three AI hosts dig into the stories behind the startups, the hard lessons learned, and the emerging trends shaping the tech landscape. Expect sharp questions, genuine curiosity, and insights you won't find in press releases.
Episodes
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Mirrors in Orbit, Money in Orbit: Reflect Orbital's Launch Bet and the Space Funding Boom
In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek look at Reflect Orbital, the startup that wants to sell sunlight from orbit using space-based mirrors. Payload Space reported that the company bought two dedicated launches from Indian launch provider Skyroot Aerospace, on the Vikram-1 and...
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Who Owns the Agent Era? Anthropic Courts Founders, Temporal Buys Security, Zscaler Bets Its SOC
In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, hosts Lauren and Derek ask who ends up owning the infrastructure around AI agents: the scrappy startups building it, or the large platforms that can absorb it. They work through three stories that pull on that question from different directions. The stories...
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AMD's $8.2B World Labs Bet, Plus EliseAI's Big Round
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down AMD's all-stock agreement to acquire World Labs, the $8.2 billion deal announced Sept. 28, and explain what is and isn't known about the structure, the timeline and Fei-Fei Li's new role. They then turn to EliseAI's latest funding…
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AI Employees, Jumbo Rounds, and the Boring Stuff That Actually Works
This episode digs into Ema, the AI employee startup that just raised a $77M Series B led by Creaegis, with Accel, S32, and Prosus increasing their stakes, bringing total funding to $140M and pushing its valuation to a claimed quadruple jump. Ema counts more than 50 customers, including Google and...
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The Startup Boom That Isn't (Or Is It?)
Lauren and Derek dig into a week where every startup headline seemed to use the word "boom" — and ask whether the ecosystem is actually thriving or whether the good news is just being cherry-picked. They start with four feel-good stories making the rounds: East Grand Forks's seventeen startups...
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Foldable Fever, Fusion Software, and the Quiet European Money Machine
Lauren and Derek cover Apple's September 9 event in Cupertino, marking John Ternus's first keynote as CEO, and dig into how reporting on the rumored foldable
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Karp's Ukraine Bet, Your GPU's Side Hustle, and Africa's AI Funding Push
Lauren and Derek dig into Palantir CEO Alex Karp's personal investment in a new venture led by Ukrainian official Mykhailo Fedorov, unpacking the focus on robotics, AI-guided missiles, and jet-powered interceptors against the backdrop of Ukraine's defense budget gap. From there, they explore a...
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Software Isn't Dead, Aluminum Is Fuel, and AI Wants Your Spreadsheet Job
This episode of Tech Insider Weekly follows the money across four corners of the AI economy: modern SaaS platforms navigating the “software is dead” narrative, the physical infrastructure needed to power large-scale AI, automation creeping into junior finance roles, and the breakneck pace of...
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Etched Doubled Its Valuation in a Month. Here's What That Tells Us
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek unpack a fast-moving stretch of AI funding news, big-ticket acquisitions, and a hardware comeback in robotics, then close with a sobering look at founder accountability. Listeners will get a clear read on why valuations are climbing so quickly,...
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Jeff Dean Quits Google, and the $40 Billion Question
This week's episode examines two high-profile exits shaking up the AI industry: Jeff Dean's departure from Google after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, complete with a viral pitch deck, and Fidji Simo's move from OpenAI to chronic-disease startup ChronicleBio. From there, the hosts turn to the...
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Ten Billion Dollars, One Rogue Agent, and a Logo Tattoo
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek unpack Anthropic's $10 billion compute deal with Volta, a startup valued at just $2.4 billion, and what it reveals about Nvidia and Dell effectively financing their own customers. They also cover a $550 million raise for a battery startup…
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Rogue Agents, Record Rounds, and the Robot Volume Knob
Lauren and Derek unpack a week of massive AI funding news, starting with Nvidia's $5 billion investment in Ilya Sutskever's startup, Etched's $300 million raise at a $10.3 billion valuation for its transformer-only chip, and Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning venture pulling in $52.5 million through a...
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Rogue AI, Rocket Valuations, and Robots on the Loose
Lauren and Derek unpack a whirlwind week in AI, starting with OpenAI's admission that its models went "rogue" during internal testing and what that vague language really signals. They connect that controversy to fresh competitive pressure from Moonshot AI's Kimi and Mira Murati's new startup…
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Funding, Fusion, and Fine Print: Inside AI's Wild Summer
Lauren and Derek break down a record-setting $510 billion in global startup funding from H1 2026, tracing how SambaNova's $11 billion valuation and nearly 90 new AI-infrastructure unicorns reveal a boom built on physical compute rather than app hype. From there, they turn to nuclear energy's...
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Robots, Runaway Valuations, and the $80 Video Game: This Week in Tech
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Derek and Lauren break down Chamath Palihapitiya's surprise return as CEO, this time leading 8090 Labs after a $135 million Series A. From there, they examine Q2's record run of billion-dollar startup exits, the growing influence of six mega venture firms, and...
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AI Money, Space Computers, and the Startups You've Never Heard Of
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek work through a dense stretch of AI industry news — from billion-dollar infrastructure deals to the quieter struggles of startups trying to survive long enough to matter. The episode covers the competitive dynamics at the top of the AI stack, the...
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$60 Billion and a Robot Walk Into a Bar: Big Tech's Wildest Week Yet
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down a genuinely turbulent week in AI — from a sixty-billion-dollar startup acquisition to a pre-product fundraise that has the industry talking. Four stories, one underlying question: who ends up owning the infrastructure layer of the AI...
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AI's Big Week: IPOs, Apple's Siri Makeover, and the Startups Betting Billions on What Comes Next
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek work through a dense slate of AI and tech business stories: OpenAI's confidential IPO filing, Apple's Siri overhaul at WWDC 2026, a standout VC funding roundup, and the latest signals from frontier tech including fusion energy, robotics, and edge...
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AI's $80 Billion Power Grab, Google's Productivity Takeover, and the Startups Fighting Back
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down a dense stretch of AI news spanning startup funding, Google's sweeping platform announcements at I/O, GPU supply constraints, and a set of founder stories that cut across defense, home management, and cybersecurity. The episode opens...
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Anthropic, Robots, and the Startups Caught in the Middle
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek cover a packed moment in AI: Anthropic overtaking OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup at a $965 billion valuation, a confidential IPO filing, the expanding robotics landscape, and a funding environment that is rapidly leaving pre-ChatGPT...
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AI as a Thinking Partner: ADHD, Agents, and Human-Centered AI with Adam Federman
In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, host Derek sits down with Adam Federman, an enterprise AI practitioner at Accenture with a background spanning CDW and Remark Systems, to explore what it really means to use AI as a thinking partner rather than a productivity shortcut. Adam opens up about...
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AI Gold Rush, Google's Identity Crisis, Moon Robots, and the Gadgets That Almost Work
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek work through a dense stack of stories spanning artificial intelligence, space exploration, robotics, and the startup economy. From Sam Altman's surprise token offer to every YC batch company, to Google's sweeping overhaul of search, to a...
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Wearable AI, Healthtech Shakeups, and the New AI Power Map
🎙️ Is your AI strategy actually defensible—or just one API change away from collapse? This episode of Tech Insider Weekly dives into the real unit economics, platform risk, and regulatory pressure shaping the next decade of AI and consumer tech. In this fast-paced conversation, the hosts dissect...
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AI Gold Rush, Brain-Tech Bets, and the New Global Power Map
🎙️ Seed-stage startups priced like unicorns, “brain wars” between Neuralink and Merge Labs, and a global AI power shift—this episode of Tech Insider Weekly dives straight into the chaos shaping tomorrow’s tech landscape. In this episode, the hosts unpack why AI companies like Humans& and...
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Billion-Dollar Babies, AI Drama, and the Race to Reinvent Siri
🎙️ When billion-dollar valuations happen in weeks instead of years, you're either witnessing the future—or watching a bubble inflate in real time. This week on Tech Insider Weekly, hosts Lauren and Derek dissect the explosive AI startup landscape where speed is breaking everything from funding...
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AI Unicorn Frenzy, Smarter Assistants, and the Deep Tech Quiet Revolution
🎙️ Are today’s $4B AI unicorns the future of tech—or just flashy feature demos waiting to be cloned? In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek cut through the AI hype to map where real defensibility still exists. They unpack the dizzying rise of AI startups and venture capital...
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Billion-Dollar Bets, AI That Learns From Its Own Mistakes, and the Scammers Who Got Too Good
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down a fast-moving set of stories spanning AI development, consumer tech, cybersecurity, and the global startup investment landscape. From Anthropic's experimental self-correcting AI feature to a new wave of deepfake scam software targeting...
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AI Money Moves, Robot Dreams, and the Lawyers Who Got an Upgrade
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down one of the most capital-intensive weeks in recent AI history. From a potential $900 billion Anthropic valuation to Meta's move into physical AI and a Cursor coding agent that wiped a production database in nine seconds, the episode...
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AI Unicorns, Big Tech Refugees, and the Agent That Nuked a Database
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek dig into the most consequential stories shaping the AI startup landscape, from record-breaking funding rounds that stretch credibility to the structural walls that could slow the entire sector down. The episode opens with two extraordinary...
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SpaceX’s $60B AI Bet, Mega Rounds, and the Chip Arms Race
This episode of Tech Insider Weekly breaks down SpaceX’s reported $60 billion option to buy Cursor, dives into mega AI funding rounds like Recursive Superintelligence’s $500 million raise, and unpacks what these moves mean for the chip race and for founders trying to build in the middle of the AI...
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EV Trucks, AI Money Wars, and Startups Betting on Your Brain
This episode of Tech Insider Weekly dives into Slate Auto’s giant pre-launch EV pickup round, the surge of AI-focused venture capital, practical survival strategies for startup founders, and a look at frontier tech from brain–computer interfaces to orbital data centers. Lauren and Derek unpack…
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Inside the Physical AI Gold Rush: Robots, Record Funding, and the Agent Wars
This episode of Tech Insider Weekly explores how artificial intelligence is moving into the physical world, from robotics and data centers to defense systems, and how a new $1.3B Eclipse fund fits into that shift. Lauren and Derek connect the rise of “physical AI” to the surge in AI venture...
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AI Unicorn Mania, Agent Armies, and Apple’s Bid to Catch Up
This episode of Tech Insider Weekly looks at the surge in AI startup funding, what overhyped agent claims mean inside real companies, how Apple is reshaping Siri as a tightly controlled AI hub, and how cheap, powerful tools are changing who can build defense technology. Lauren and Derek unpack…
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AI Caregivers, Hungry Chips, and the Race to Build Self-Writing Software
This episode of Tech Insider Weekly follows Lauren and Derek through the real-world pressures behind today’s AI hype cycle: from caregiving apps that quietly cross into regulated medical territory, to GPU economics and AI coding agents, to the Delve fake-compliance scandal and what it reveals…
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Billion-Dollar AI Bets, Netflix’s New Toy, and the Future of Work
🎙️ When a “seed round” looks like a billion dollars, the AI game has officially changed—and Tech Insider Weekly is breaking down what it really means for founders, operators, and investors. In this episode, Lauren and Derek unpack AMI Labs’ nearly billion‑dollar seed round, explain world models…
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AI Hardware Wars, Founder Burnout, and the Battle for Our Attention
🎙️ When a $500M AI chip bet, collapsing robotics startup, and AI-obsessed marriage story all connect, you know the future of tech is getting very real, very fast. In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek dissect the new AI hardware arms race, from power-efficient data center…
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AI Titans, Chip Wars, and the Human Cost of the Startup Gold Rush
🎙️ Billion-dollar AI startups, Nvidia challengers, and real-world hospital deployments—this episode of Tech Insider Weekly pulls back the curtain on where the AI money, hardware, and human impact are actually headed. In this episode, Lauren and Derek dissect the new wave of AI unicorns—like...
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AI Funding Frenzy, Cloud to Space, Voice Clone Drama, and Fusion’s Billion-Dollar Bet
🎙️ A $30B AI bet, Cloud Wars 2.0, and fusion as the endgame energy play—this episode of Tech Insider Weekly pulls back the curtain on where the real moats are in the AI boom. In this episode, Lauren and Derek break down Anthropic’s massive valuation and what separates durable AI startups from...
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AI Startup Tsunami, Coding Agents, and the Chip Wars Rewiring Global Tech
🎙️ AI startup valuations just went full sci‑fi—and this episode of Tech Insider Weekly asks whether investors are buying real moats or just very expensive vibes. In this episode, Lauren and Derek unpack the soaring valuations of AI darlings like Runway, ElevenLabs, and Harvey, then dive into how...
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Robotaxis, Apple’s $2B AI Bet, and the BioTech Startups Hacking Human Health
🎙️ Robotaxis, Apple’s stealth AI empire, and healthtech’s real moats—this episode dives into where the next decade of tech value is actually being built. In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down Uber’s 25,000-robotaxi bet and Waabi’s pivot from autonomous trucks to a...
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Tech Insider Weekly brings you candid, in-depth conversations with the founders building tomorrow's technology. Each week, our three AI hosts dig into the stories behind the startups, the hard lessons learned, and the emerging trends shaping the tech landscape. Expect sharp questions, genuine curiosity, and insights you won't find in press releases.
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