Not Great, Bob!

Tech Brew Ride Home

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We might soon have the first big IPO of the AI era, and it doesn’t look like it will be OpenAI. Amazon takes another few swings at Nvidia’s dominance. Proof positive that self driving cars really are significantly safer. And the disastrous 4k upscaling of Mad Men. Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public (FT) Amazon’s Custom Chips Pose Another Threat to Nvidia (WSJ) Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own (Wired) AWS puts Kiro and other AI agents to work on truly autonomous software development (SiliconANGLE) The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course. (NYTimes) Microsoft Lowers AI Software Growth Targets as Customers Resist Newer Products (The Information) The ‘Mad Men’ 4K Stream on HBO Max Had So Many Problems (Not All of Which Involved a Barf Machine) (THR) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.1	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipopla sauce and amade cheese melt, and it's giving
0:08.9	the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.4	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments with the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11 a.m.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:24.2	Welcome to the TechBrew ride home for Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025.
0:27.5	I'm Brian McCullough.
0:28.2	Today, we might soon have the first big IPO of the AI era, and it doesn't look like it
0:32.8	will be Open AI.
0:34.5	Amazon takes another few swings at Nvidia's dominance, prove positive that self-driving
0:38.5	cars really are significantly safer, and the 4K upscaling of Mad Men on HBO, not great, Bob.
0:46.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:53.7	Conducting business online can feel a little scary these days, especially with AI, creating new opportunities for fraud.
1:00.6	In fact, Celent estimates that AI was behind roughly 20% of the fraud perpetrated in 2024.
1:07.0	Spotting bad agentic AI while allowing good agents to continue with their tasks isn't easy.
1:12.1	Thankfully, Momoto Continuous Captcha can spot malicious agents pretending to be people at the point of account creation or registration.
1:18.9	Unlike past Captcha solutions, it runs behind the scenes with no puzzles for users.
1:23.7	Momoto offers TechBrew Ride Home listeners early access with a special price for Momoto Continuous
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