WEF-Hater Elon Musk Makes Davos Debut & ‘Sinners’ Breaks All-Time Oscars Noms

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Episode 764: Neal and Toby recap the latest from the World Economic Forum as it heads into its last day, ending with Elon Musk making his debut after publicly criticizing the conference. Then, ‘Sinners’ shatters the record for most Oscar nominations. Plus, the hit show ‘Heated Rivalry’ has jolted interest from newcomers into hockey. Meanwhile, Japanese toilet maker Toto has its best performance thanks to an AI upgrade. Finally, a roundup of the biggest headlines from the day. Get your tickets for the Morning Brew Variety Show! https://tinyurl.com/MBvariety Explore Indeed’s full findings at https://www.indeed.com/2026hiringtrends Learn more about Lightspeed at https://www.lsvp.com Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ This special episode is produced in partnership with Lightspeed Venture Partners. Lightspeed holds the largest early-stage AI portfolio in the world both number of companies and capital deployed, investing in 165 AI companies and deploying over $5.5 billion in AI investments. Lightspeed's invested in some of the most valuable AI companies globally, including Anthropic, Mistral AI, Glean, Reflection AI and more. Learn more about Lightspeed's recent investments in Skild AI here, and stay tuned for more exciting AI coverage on the show this week: https://www.skild.ai/blogs/series-c Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.
0:07.0	But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.
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0:22.6	It's AI that knows your work as well as you do.
0:25.6	Visit Slack.com forward slash meet SlackBot to learn more.
0:31.6	Good morning Brew Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman.
0:34.6	And I'm Toby Howell.
0:35.6	Today, Sinners makes Academy Awards history.
0:39.1	And heated rivalry has done the impossible, getting people to care about hockey. It's Friday,
0:44.7	January 23rd. Let's ride. Good morning and happy Friday, though we are actually recording this Thursday afternoon since we have a flight out of Switzerland in the morning.
0:59.7	The Delta Wi-Fi isn't quite there yet to record a podcast from Extreme Basic Economy.
1:05.4	There's been a lot of huge news this week, but for probably the most exciting headline, we're going to hand it over to social
1:11.0	producer Annie Bennett. Annie, what's the good word? We got some breaking news that Morning Brew has a
1:16.7	variety show at caveat in New York City Thursday, February 5th at 7 p.m. If you and your friends want to
1:22.3	watch us bully Toby live on stage, this is the show for you. What about me? Well, Neil was frankly not invited,
1:28.9	but that's okay because he's going to show up anyway and we'll bully him then. So all good. It's going to be the best video, sketch, stand up. It's the best morning brew content that you can see online, but this time you can't scroll ahead when it's boring. Am I selling this well? Don't answer that. Annie, you could sell water to a fish, but please get out of our studio now.
1:47.5	The link to buy ticket to the show will be in our show description. I will be there. Neal will probably be there, and we hope to see you there as well.
1:56.6	And now a word from our sponsor, indeed. Toby, what are you doing to make better workforce decisions?
2:01.7	I ask our producer, Emily, what she thinks, then agree with her.
2:04.6	Smart man.
2:05.3	But for even more insights grounded in real-time data, there's the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
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