CoreWeave’s IPO tests money magic of AI
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🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The artificial intelligence cloud computing provider CoreWeave sold shares to the public today with so-so results. Because it’s the first major IPO of the current generative AI era, some argue that CoreWeave could be a barometer of the AI boom. We’ll get into it. And, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of President Donald Trump’s firings of independent agency heads. The case will likely make its way to the Supreme Court. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Appeals court clears way for Trump to fire leaders of ‘independent’ federal agencies” from Politico
- “CoreWeave stock seesaws after IPO in first big test of AI trade” from Yahoo Finance
- “CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb” from Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At
- “OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator for ChatGPT” from The New York Times
- “DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout” from Marketplace
- “Crocs hits record revenue as popularity with younger consumers soars” from Marketplace
- “When should we pay rent with a credit card? from Marketplace
- “Facebook’s New Friends Tab Brings App Back to Its Roots” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | these weeks too it is just a week well hello everyone i'm novasopo definitely not kai resdall |
| 0:10.4 | welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense kai and kimberley are both out today so |
| 0:16.6 | megan mccarty carino none other than megan mcmartarty Carino and I are taking over today's show. |
| 0:22.5 | Hi, Megan. |
| 0:23.8 | Hello, it's very good to be here. |
| 0:25.9 | And it's especially good to be here on Friday for economics on tap. |
| 0:31.3 | It's Friday, March 28th today. |
| 0:32.7 | Favorite time of the week? |
| 0:34.0 | We're going to do our weekly happy hour. |
| 0:36.2 | We've got some news. we're going to play a game |
| 0:39.4 | but first of course we got to check in as kai would say and then we're going to get you on your way |
| 0:45.4 | all right you know we got to keep the kair's spirit alive yeah uh first drinks right so megan |
| 0:51.1 | yeah first drinks so i'm feeling very in the spring spirit. And, |
| 0:57.5 | and I had this bottle of chanar from some sort of concoction that I was making. And so I just made |
| 1:05.2 | myself a chanar spritz that is a, you know, it's a spirit that is flavored with the artichoke plant, which seems |
| 1:14.7 | like a very spring thing. I have these thistles that are blooming in my neighborhood with those |
| 1:19.6 | beautiful purple blossoms. So I decided that I would be in the spring spirit with the Chinar Sprits. What have |
| 1:27.3 | you done? That is lovely. I will be joining you in the spring spirit with the Chinar Spritz. What have you done? |
| 1:27.7 | That is lovely. |
| 1:29.8 | I will be joining you in the spirits realm today. |
| 1:34.2 | I am imbibing on a cognac park borderie. |
| 1:40.0 | This is actually from the French cognac subregion, and the sub-region of the sub-region is bordery. |
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