Tesla is secretly developing a compact electric SUV cheaper than the Model 3 to compete with Chinese brands.
The episode opens with news that Tesla is discussing a compact, budget electric SUV, aiming for a price below the base Model 3, potentially using smaller batteries and a single motor. It then shifts to NASA's Artemis 2 mission, detailing the Orion capsule's record-breaking reentry at 38,400 km/h and its planned splashdown in the Pacific. The show reports on Arkadiy Volozh's Nebius negotiating to acquire Israeli AI startup AI21, valued at $2-3 billion. Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, sharply criticizes WhatsApp, calling its encryption 'perhaps the largest fraud in history' and accusing it of reading user messages. Elon Musk announces that XAI is training a model with 10 trillion parameters on the Colossus 2 supercomputer, which houses 550,000 chips. A Speedtest report reveals Kazakhstan's median fixed internet speed is 88.1 Mbps, ranking 86th globally, below the world average and behind countries like Guyana and Venezuela, with Almaty and Astana dropping in city rankings. Kazakh blogger Dastan Muhammad Kharim wins a 'blogger Oscar' in Cannes for his nature videos, leading to contracts with airlines like Turkish Airlines and Rixos Hotels. Meta introduces its closed AI model MuseSpark, the first from its Superintelligence Labs, capable of processing voice, text, and images. Statistics show high informal employment in Kazakhstan, especially in agriculture, with 389,000 informal workers. The episode concludes with a trend among American youth adopting older hobbies like embroidery and board games to combat digital fatigue.
