Down Round

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been outed as having had an affair with Alice Huang (no relation), a Chinese businesswoman suspected of being a spy. Not only is it juicy gossip, but it's got the markets and the establishment in a tizzy about what it means for his role in US AI supremacy.
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Reddit's CEO has stated that the forum site will move to “a logged-in-only experience”, and has pointed the finger at AI for forcing this change. When you ask google "Best Computer to buy 2026 Reddit" it now gives you the reddit consensus in it's summary, you're no longer browsing Reddit and giving them precious ad revenue. Is this the last domino to fall for the death of the 'free internet' as we once knew it? And moreover, does that even matter?

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Years in the future historians will cite this humble podcast episode as a first hand account of an irreversible shift. There is now only the before and the after.
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Friend of the pod Richard Cooke has published his new book - The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia. At his book launch in Sydney, James and Raph of Down Round podcast fame sat down for a discussion of the work, the human interest story behind it, and of course AI.
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Recorded live at Gleebooks Sydney on 15/10/26
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Elon Musk and his cronies over at Tesla had an event last week where they showed off the latest version of the Roadster. You may be thinking 'hey, didn't they announce that car like 8 years ago?' Yes, they did, yet it remains unreleased. Tesla have also kicked that can down the road another 2 years, announcing a 2028 release. Who better to detangle this web of theatrics than Henno and the Riph Raph.

Also, Raph gives his thoughts on the newly announced Apple Homeview, a device which should be right up his alley as an Apple Home user.
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