US-Cuba Tensions Escalate; OpenAI ChatGPT IPO; Massive Meta Layoffs; Diet Coke As Indian Status Symbol

Mo News

@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Headlines: – Welcome To Mo News (00:00) – U.S. Grand Jury Indicts Raul Castro, Ex-Cuban President (07:00) – Sec. Of State Marco Rubio, in Video, Urges Cubans to Align With Trump Administration (11:45) – Trump Says He's “In No Hurry” To Make A Deal With Iran (15:00) – OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO in the Coming Weeks (17:00) – Zuckerberg’s Meta Layoffs Memo: ‘Success Isn’t A Given’ In The AI Era (20:30) – Jeff Bezos Says Bottom Half Of Earners Should Pay Zero In Income Taxes (23:20) – ‘Summer Should Be Fine’ As Europe’s Jet Fuel Fears Ease (28:20) – India’s Diet Coke Shortage Is Turning Soda Into a Status Symbol (32:00) – On This Day In History (36:20) Thanks To Our Sponsor: Today’s episode of the podcast features limited commercial interruptions, brought to you exclusively by the American Petroleum Institute. 🐝 This podcast was recorded from the Mo News office at Industrious at Midtown on 50th St. Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. She's the Managing Editor of Mo News. Jill previously worked as a correspondent for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast.

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Mo News Podcast will have very limited commercial interruption brought to you exclusively by the American Petroleum Institute.
0:10.9	Hey, everybody, it is Thursday, May 21st, 26. You're listening to the Mo News podcast. I'm Moosh Wanunu.
0:18.5	And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts.
0:22.5	And where we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to.
0:26.0	You say it's your birthday.
0:29.6	Moshe, happy birthday.
0:31.7	Jill, I didn't know which birthday rendition you were going to go with the Stevie Wonder birthday, the traditional birthday.
0:37.0	It turns out the Beatles'
0:38.0	birthday song. I didn't know either, by the way. I just came out. You just felt it. It just came out.
0:44.7	Well, thank you very much. It is an honor to be here as I made my way around the sun one more time.
0:53.5	But thank you, especially to you and Michael for your
0:55.8	birthday gift. I am still recording this in the studio. I have not been home yet, but I have received a
1:00.3	photo for my wife that it appears you sent us ice cream. Well, there's one thing I have learned
1:05.7	after doing, I don't know, three years plus of this podcast with you, it is that you like your ice cream.
1:12.9	I do.
1:13.1	I'm trying to lose five pounds right now, Jill, but that's going to have to wait until after the birthday.
1:17.8	That is not a goal that you could have on your birthday.
1:20.4	That's for, do that for your next birthday.
1:22.6	You can work on it after.
1:24.0	I'll work on it for the half birthday.
1:25.5	Because you got cake.
1:26.5	You got all that stuff.
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