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They explore how companies sit on vast troves of unused video data and the challenge of turning it into searchable business intelligence. The founders' Google Japan roots and a move to the U.S. are highlighted. They discuss advances in vision-language models, no-code multimodal tools, and products that analyze TV and long-form video in real time.

Discussion of a proposed three-year pause on new data center permits in New York and how other states are reacting. Exploration of bipartisan and environmental concerns around data center impacts and costs. Coverage of a small pro-billionaire march in San Francisco and the organizers’ stated motives.

Reddit is betting on AI-driven search and generative answers as a major growth path. They discuss rising search usage and plans to merge traditional search with richer, media-forward AI responses. AWS posts record revenue growth as AI demand boosts cloud adoption and large new deals expand capacity.

A look at a new enterprise platform that lets companies build, manage and onboard AI agents like employees. Coverage of enterprise features, partnerships and how this fits into the wider agent-management market. News about a model release that introduces coordinated agent teams, huge context windows and productivity integrations for knowledge work.

Startups are using early secondary sales as a retention and recruiting tool, with examples like Clay, Linear, and ElevenLabs offering employee-wide tenders at rising valuations. The conversation contrasts founder cash-outs from 2021 with today’s broader liquidity moves and explores investor concerns about reduced IPO pressure. Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app for creating, remixing, and sharing short AI-generated videos with freemium and subscription options.

A startup is using autonomous agents to turn static websites into personalized, real-time experiences. The conversation covers why traditional agency and A/B testing approaches fail at enterprise scale. Listeners hear how the platform layers onto existing sites to run thousands of parallel micro-experiments. Investors doubled down after seeing cost and operating-model advantages in regulated industries.

Amazon has opened Alexa+ across the U.S., with free access on mobile and web and special Prime perks. The system mixes Amazon and third-party foundation models for smarter, follow-up conversations. New integrations let the assistant book tickets, hail rides, and make reservations. Listeners hear about rollout choices, privacy controls, and early usage gains.

A deep look at how Homeland Security uses administrative subpoenas to compel tech companies to turn over data. The reach and limits of those subpoenas are explored. Stories include demands for identities behind anonymous Instagram accounts documenting ICE and a subpoena tied to a critical email. The gap in companies' transparency reports and encryption limits are also discussed.

A new AI platform aims to gather and organize family health data and surface notable changes. The founders behind a popular wearable launch tools for logging via voice, text and photos and for flagging unusual vitals and sleep shifts. French police expand a criminal probe into X, including searches of its Paris office.

Firefox will add a setting to block all generative AI features and suppress AI pop-ups and reminders. The new controls let users disable individual AI enhancements like translations, alt text, PDFs, tab grouping, link previews, and chatbots. Ring’s Search Party AI for finding lost dogs now scans participating outdoor cameras nationwide and lets owners share clips or contact finders while protecting privacy.