TWiT 1087: Evil is the Root of All Money - Could Local AI Laptops Compete With Data Center Giants?
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
An astronomical amount of money is being poured into AI and data centers as tech giants fight for dominance, but is this fueling the next big tech bubble or just the price of staying in the game? Get the panel's opinions on wild IPO valuations, global power grabs, Build 2026, NVIDIA GTC Taipei, and even successful YouTuber movies!
- SpaceX IPO to Be Largest Ever at $135 Share Price
- Utah residents sue officials over Kevin O'Leary data center plan
- When AI builds itself
- NVIDIA announces RTX Spark as 'the most efficient PC chip ever built'
- Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
- Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
- What to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2026: iOS 27, New Siri and AI
- Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
- Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
- Trump: U.S. stake in AI giants "could be a beautiful thing"
- Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers
- Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
- AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data
- YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar
- YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Joey de Villa, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week. |
| 0:01.2 | A tech father Roberts here. |
| 0:02.6 | Jeff Jarvis, Joey DeVilla. |
| 0:04.7 | We are going to talk about the IPO Palusa from Anthropics, SpaceX, and Open AI. |
| 0:12.1 | Nvidia's announcements at Computex, Microsoft's announcements at Build and what Apple might be talking about tomorrow. |
| 0:18.9 | This week in tech is next. |
| 0:23.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:27.9 | This is Twit. |
| 0:35.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:36.8 | This Week in Tech, episode 1887, recorded Sunday, June 7th, 2026. Evil is the root of all money. |
| 0:47.2 | It's time for Twit. This Week in Tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. So glad you're here and so glad to welcome our fabulous panel this week. |
| 0:56.7 | Father Robert Balliser is joining us from the Vatican City. Hello. Actually, you're not in |
| 1:01.3 | Vatican City, are you? No, no, no, Vatican City is behind me. We're in the Vatican, but Vatican City |
| 1:07.2 | is a very specific space. So confusing. Hi atop, looking down on St. Peter's Basilica or something. I don't know. Anyway, welcome, Robert. What time is it? Oh, it's 11 o'clock. But I mean, really, I'm back in California. That's where my heart is. Yeah, you're in California time. Good. Where it's just, you know, 2 p.m. |
| 1:29.5 | Also with us, Jeff Jarvis. He's on the East Coast in beautiful New Jersey. Normally, we see him every Wednesday on intelligent machines, but it's nice to have you on the, as you call it, the grownups table. |
| 1:41.0 | The grownups table. Jeff, Professoredis of journalistic innovation at the |
| 1:44.8 | kraig newmark graduate school of journalism at the city and university of new york oh i forgot we |
| 1:48.6 | don't have to do that anymore craig craig craig craig craig craig craig kirk newmah that's another one i know i don't even know that one that's that's his brand new book hot type |
| 2:04.4 | which is the history of the line of type and more emerges from seclusion just finished recording |
| 2:10.6 | the audiobook this last oh you don't sound hoarse at all it was i did in three days 300 days. 300 pages and three days. How about that. And that's Joey DeVilla. Good to see him. Yay. Hey, good to be here. Many of our shows. He has a new job as AI developer advocate at, well, just developer advocate. Developer advocate. Yeah, developer advocate. But my primary, yeah, I'm really pushing Net Foundry's new AI tools. |
| 2:37.6 | So little gateways for LLMs and MCPs and ways for agents to talk to other agents securely. |
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