Mon. 07/28 – Tea Has Been Spilt
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Samsung’s foundry business gets a shot in the arm from Tesla. Zuck’s hiring spree nabs a Chat GPT creator. Anthropic is raising and leveling up in a big way. And no sooner did the hot new dating app Tea get hot, then it got hacked. Tea was spilt, if you will.
Links:
- Samsung to Make Tesla AI Chips in Multiyear Texas Deal (Bloomberg)
- Donald Trump freezes export controls to secure trade deal with China (FT)
- Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit (TechCrunch)
- PayPal to Roll Out ‘Pay With Crypto’ Feature for Merchants (Bloomberg)
- AI start-up Anthropic open to Mideast funds in talks to double valuation to over $150bn (FT)
- Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app (NBCNews)
- Hackers leak 13,000 user photos and IDs from the Tea app, designed as a women's safe space (NBCNews)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Monday, July 28th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:09.0 | Samsung's Foundry business gets a shot in the arm from Tesla. |
| 0:13.0 | Zuck's hiring spree nabs a chat GPT creator. |
| 0:16.0 | Anthropic is raising and leveling up in a big way. |
| 0:20.0 | And no sooner did the hot new dating app T get hot, |
| 0:23.8 | then it got hacked. |
| 0:25.3 | Tea was spilt, if you will. |
| 0:27.6 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.9 | Samsung overnight unveiled a $16.5 billion chip deal with Tesla that runs through the end of |
| 0:39.0 | 23. Elon Musk says the deal is to make Tesla's next generation AI6 chips in Taylor, Texas. |
| 0:47.3 | Quoting Bloomberg, the strategic importance of this is hard to overstate, Musk wrote on X. |
| 0:53.4 | He described the value of the deal announced by |
| 0:55.6 | Samsung as, quote, just the bare minimum, actual output is likely to be several times higher. |
| 1:01.6 | The Tesla chief executive officer and ex-owner will walk the chip fabrication line himself |
| 1:06.9 | and has been authorized by Samsung to assist in optimizing production, he said. |
| 1:12.0 | The AI-6 component will form the foundation of Tesla's driving hardware suite for cars in |
| 1:17.3 | coming years. Samsung produces the current AI-4 system, according to Musk. |
| 1:22.6 | The contract win, the first after Samsung executive chairman, Jay W Y. Lee was cleared of all outstanding legal |
| 1:30.2 | charges comes as Samsung has been steadily losing ground in chip manufacturing. The company, |
| 1:35.8 | which makes its own memory chips and also fabricates semiconductors on behalf of clients, has had |
| 1:40.9 | difficulty bringing in enough orders to fully utilize its foundry capacity. It |
| 1:45.3 | has postponed completion of construction and operational ramp-up of its new Texas Fab to 2026. |
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