Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Apocalyptic Mushroom Cloud - Week in Tech
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Blue Origin's latest rocket test ended in what the company called "an anomaly" — and what everyone else would call an explosion. Reed Albergotti (Semafor) explains why blowing things up is just part of the process and why the US Space Program is probably going to be fine.
Then, Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker) pulls back the curtain on the shadow market for pre-IPO equity in OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX. It’s a mania where people are willing to take pre-IPO stock as payment for $2.9M houses. It's frothy out there.
Finally, Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) digs into the concept of a ‘permanent underclass’ — the fear that letting AI run rampant could freeze everyone in their current economic position forever. Do we laugh it off or get serious about regulation?
Additional Reading:
- Blue Origin and Amazon Had Momentum. Then Came the Fireball. | The New York Times
- A Booming Shadow Market of Sketchy A.I. Investments | The New Yorker
- You Are About to Become Economically Worthless | User Mag
- Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass | The New York Times
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| 1:17.0 | Today we're joined by Taylor Lorenz of UserMag, Kyle Cheker, who writes the Infinite Scroll column for the New Yorker, and Rehabilbriotti, tech editor at Semaphore. Welcome all. |
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