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Zuckerberg's yacht, Meta's layoffs, a robot pizza flameout, and a reality check on AI expenses

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.8127 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show: Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht arrives in Seattle the same day Meta discloses nearly 1,400 local layoffs, robot pizza startup Picnic flames out and sells to a mystery buyer, and corporate America confronts the rising cost of AI, including the leaderboard-gaming practice known as "tokenmaxxing." And we return to the theme of billionaire yachts for our trivia challenge.

With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. 

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0:00.0

All of this is being supported by artificial dollars that the customer at the end of the day

0:07.6

isn't really touching, either the business customer or Joe Schmo consumer.

0:11.9

Do you worry that you're using AI in an unrealistic way economically right now?

0:17.7

In other words, that your usage, when things come home to roost, in terms of the costs, will not be affordable. Yes. Like it might be more efficient economically for me just to do something versus using AI to do something. To just type that email. Hi, and welcome to Geekwire. I'm Geekwire co-founder

0:45.4

Todd Bishop. And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to

0:50.0

report each day on what's happening around us in business, technology, and innovation.

0:56.2

What happens here matters everywhere.

1:00.0

And every week on this show, we talk about some of the most interesting and important stories and trends in the news.

1:02.4

John, coming up this week, Picnic runs out a dough.

1:05.7

That was your...

1:06.7

I thought that was pretty clever.

1:08.3

The robot pizza company sells to a mystery buyer.

1:12.0

Corporate America's AI bill is coming due, and inside the big companies, workers are

1:16.8

burning real money gaming AI leaderboards, including right here up the street at Amazon.

1:22.4

But first, John, we've got to talk about the boat, right?

1:26.1

We've got to talk about the boat. Oh, We've got to talk about the boat. Oh my gosh. Sometimes

1:29.6

there are stories that just kind of define a week. And this week, that story was Mark Zuckerberg's

1:38.3

super yacht launch pad. And there are also these stories that happen locally sometimes as well. This is a great

1:47.4

example. It was the treasure truck back in the day. The treasure truck. I'm thinking of the space

1:51.7

needle craziness with angry birds when we thought they were going to launch an angry bird off

1:56.9

the top of the space needle. Yes. This was one of those stories. These are really fun stories to chase.

2:02.3

So it was a Tuesday evening that this happened?

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