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Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere? | Equity Podcast

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is…

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The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too powerful to demo to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what’s actually being built in AI infrastructure, who’s winning the enterprise battle between OpenAI and Anthropic, and more of the week’s headlines.

Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:25 Allbirds is now an AI company, apparently

04:48 Why chipmakers are betting on Wayve

12:01 Fluidstack wants $1B to build AI data centers

16:24 OpenAI buys a finance app and a talk show

21:27 Anthropic vs. OpenAI in enterprise

24:15 The Anthropic model they won’t release to the public

26:47 Why AI feels so distant to everyone else

30:47 What even is tokenmaxxing?

34:49 Parasail’s $32M bet on cheaper AI inference

36:39 Outro

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Inside the Despacio Tent at Portola 2026

The Despacio tent is a temple of music for audio geeks, and the brainchild of LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, Stephen and David Dewaele of 2manydjs aka Soulwax, and audio engineer John Klett. First created in 2013, Despacio makes its way from festival to festival, blasting dancers with vintage vinyl from seven McIntosh speaker stacks…

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The Despacio tent is a temple of music for audio geeks, and the brainchild of LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, Stephen and David Dewaele of 2manydjs aka Soulwax, and audio engineer John Klett. First created in 2013, Despacio makes its way from festival to festival, blasting dancers with vintage vinyl from seven McIntosh speaker stacks that make up the 50,000-watt sound system along with the lighting rig and iconic disco ball that complete the experience. CNET social producer Faith Chihil got a chance to catch it at Portola Music Festival in San Francisco and here’s what she found. #despacio #portolamusicfestival #festival #audiophile #vinyl

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It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House) | Equity Podcast

This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI…

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This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money in AI still appears to be coming from the enterprise.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into this week’s AI moves, the ugly economics of consumer AI, plus the shifting IPO market and a handful of startup deals.

If you enjoy our show, join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where Equity will kick things off with a live episode on the Builders Stage at 9 a.m.

Get 25% off your tickets with code Equity25 at TechCrunch.com/events.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

0:53 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

3:11 Trump, AI CEOs, and the era of “super intelligence”

11:09 Consumer AI gets a friendlier face with Muse and Dots

18:53 What Anthropic’s IPO plans say about the market

26:12 Quartermaster raises $140M to track what’s happening at sea

30:26 Ex-Tesla supply chain team builds Atomic

33:54 Charter Space brings insurance to the stars

36:02 Outro

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Apple’s Health Age Test Is Brutally Honest | One More Thing

In the public beta version of iOS 27.2, Apple’s Health app gets a redesign that includes a series of tests to measure your health against your actual age. Bridget Carey walks (and squats) through her Health Age test and offers tips on what to expect. You can find the products mentioned in this video linked…

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In the public beta version of iOS 27.2, Apple’s Health app gets a redesign that includes a series of tests to measure your health against your actual age. Bridget Carey walks (and squats) through her Health Age test and offers tips on what to expect.

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Timecode Chapters:
0:24 New Apple Health App for iOS 27
1:07 Apple Health Longevity Movement Assesment Demos
1:58 Core and strength tests
2:46 Flexibility tests
2:59 VO2 max tests
3:53 Adding your lab results to Apple Health
5:06 Adding nutrition and mental health data to Apple Health
5:53 Apple Health personal summaries powered by Apple Intelligence
6:14 Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Health Rediness Score
6:36 Look out for Apple Health Age in iOS 27.2

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Host: Bridget Carey
Scripted by: Bridget Carey
Producer: Carly Marsh
Camera: Carly Marsh, John Schwartz, Bridget Carey
Video Editor: Carly Marsh
Thumbnail Designer: Tharon Green

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