Jensen Crashes Trump's China Trip, Elon's Baby Mama Takes the Stand - Week in Tech
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week has it all: geopolitical FOMO, major AI deals, more courtroom drama, and a hacker group that just won't quit. Reed Albergotti (Semafor) breaks down why AI tokens are the new oil, and why Anthropic is buying compute straight from SpaceX. Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) takes us inside the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial, where Shivon Zilis, aka the “Elon Whisperer” and the mother of four of Musk's children, finally took the stand. And Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dexter Thomas gives insight into how the hacking of education tech platform Canvas could still affect college students, even after Canvas’s parent company says a deal was reached to delete the stolen data.
Additional Reading:
- Nvidia CEO joins Trump in China despite ‘awkward’ politics | Semafor
- Anthropic-SpaceX compute deal shows how tokens are taking over the economy | Semafor
- Shivon Zilis was Elon Musk’s ‘bridge’ to OpenAI. Now she’s entangled in his lawsuit. | The Washington Post
- Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers | Inside Higher Education
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.5 | I wanted to start this week by talking about phomo and asking each of you about any recent experiences of |
| 0:21.6 | phomo and i have some phomo in fact it's existential phomo because read your longevity |
| 0:27.5 | conference today yes it's called the vitalist bay conference it's great it's going to shame me |
| 0:32.8 | into into being more longevityish i. I don't know. |
| 0:39.4 | Thanks, have you had any bad phoombo recently? |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, man. You know, I had some this morning, actually. So there is a graffiti artist who has been just absolutely tearing up downtown L.A. And I missed seeing one of his, his, I have an idea of who it is, but I missed seeing one of his latest works by probably a few hours. |
| 1:01.5 | It was being painted over. |
| 1:03.2 | As somebody told me about it, I went to the location and somebody was painting over it. |
| 1:07.2 | So I missed it. |
| 1:08.7 | I missed it. |
| 1:09.7 | Natasha, anything from you? Well, this week was maybe the first |
| 1:14.0 | time I ever thought, ooh, what if I got to be a White House reporter and, like, be in China |
| 1:19.2 | with Jensen Huang and Trump and see how those negotiations went, be the only woman in the room? |
| 1:27.2 | So, yeah, otherwise, |
| 1:29.5 | it doesn't really appeal to me. Well, you said that the two magic words for this week's episode |
| 1:34.6 | intro, which is Jensen Huang and FOMO, because he almost didn't make it, right, Reid. |
| 1:39.9 | That's right. He wasn't going to go. It was too politically touchy. |
| 1:45.3 | Now, wasn't he initially not invited and then he literally found a way to get to Alaska and jump on Air Force One mid-trip? |
| 1:52.1 | I mean, not plane to plane, not like top gun, but... |
| 1:54.6 | Yeah, no, it wasn't a mid-air transition. Although I feel like with that leather jacket, he probably could do that. |
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