Oct 28, 202618 minS1
In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek ask a simple question: when AI touches money, who is watching it? They look at AI from several angles, including fraud detection, autonomous spending, and the...
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Tech Insider Weekly brings you candid, in-depth conversations with the founders building tomorrow's technology. Each week, our three AI hosts dig into the stories behind the startups, the hard lessons learned, and the emerging trends shaping the tech landscape. Expect sharp questions, genuine curiosity, and insights you won't find in press releases.
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Tech Insider Weekly brings you candid, in-depth conversations with the founders building tomorrow's technology. Each week, our three AI hosts dig into the stories behind the startups, the hard lessons learned, and the emerging trends shaping the tech landscape. Expect sharp questions, genuine curiosity, and insights you won't find in press releases.
What has Tech Insider Weekly covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Fraud Fighters, Agent Wallets, and the AI Funding Fear Test" (28 October 2026, 18 minutes), "PHP2Shell Gets Patched, Idealab.ai's 1.2 Million Ideas, and Xbox's Reported $1,800 Console" (21 October 2026, 19 minutes), and "Mirrors in Orbit, Money in Orbit: Reflect Orbital's Launch Bet and the Space Funding Boom" (14 October 2026, 19 minutes).
How often does Tech Insider Weekly publish?
Tech Insider Weekly publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 17 minutes across 41 episodes.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #49
PHP2Shell Gets Patched, Idealab.ai's 1.2 Million Ideas, and Xbox's Reported $1,800 Console
Oct 21, 202619 minS1In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, hosts Lauren and Derek walk through three stories: a PHP remote code execution flaw that went from unpatched to patched in a single day, a free AI-generated startup idea database...
Episode #48
Mirrors in Orbit, Money in Orbit: Reflect Orbital's Launch Bet and the Space Funding Boom
Oct 14, 202619 minS1In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek look at Reflect Orbital, the startup that wants to sell sunlight from orbit using space-based mirrors. Payload Space reported that the company bought two...
Episode #47
Who Owns the Agent Era? Anthropic Courts Founders, Temporal Buys Security, Zscaler Bets Its SOC
Oct 7, 202618 minS1In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, hosts Lauren and Derek ask who ends up owning the infrastructure around AI agents: the scrappy startups building it, or the large platforms that can absorb it. They work through...
- Sep 30, 202618 minS1
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down AMD's all-stock agreement to acquire World Labs, the $8.2 billion deal announced Sept. 28, and explain what is and isn't known about the structure, the...
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- Sep 23, 202619 minS1
This episode digs into Ema, the AI employee startup that just raised a $77M Series B led by Creaegis, with Accel, S32, and Prosus increasing their stakes, bringing total funding to $140M and pushing its valuation to a...
Episode #44
The Startup Boom That Isn't (Or Is It?)
Sep 16, 202620 minS1Lauren and Derek dig into a week where every startup headline seemed to use the word "boom" — and ask whether the ecosystem is actually thriving or whether the good news is just being cherry-picked. They start with four...
- Sep 9, 202619 minS1
Lauren and Derek cover Apple's September 9 event in Cupertino, marking John Ternus's first keynote as CEO, and dig into how reporting on the rumored foldable
- Sep 2, 202619 minS1
Lauren and Derek dig into Palantir CEO Alex Karp's personal investment in a new venture led by Ukrainian official Mykhailo Fedorov, unpacking the focus on robotics, AI-guided missiles, and jet-powered interceptors...
- Aug 26, 202619 minS1
This episode of Tech Insider Weekly follows the money across four corners of the AI economy: modern SaaS platforms navigating the “software is dead” narrative, the physical infrastructure needed to power large-scale AI...
- Aug 19, 202614 minS1
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek unpack a fast-moving stretch of AI funding news, big-ticket acquisitions, and a hardware comeback in robotics, then close with a sobering look at founder...
- Aug 12, 202614 minS1
This week's episode examines two high-profile exits shaking up the AI industry: Jeff Dean's departure from Google after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, complete with a viral pitch deck, and Fidji Simo's move from...
- Aug 5, 202612 minS1
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek unpack Anthropic's $10 billion compute deal with Volta, a startup valued at just $2.4 billion, and what it reveals about Nvidia and Dell effectively financing their own...
- Jul 29, 202614 minS1
Lauren and Derek unpack a week of massive AI funding news, starting with Nvidia's $5 billion investment in Ilya Sutskever's startup, Etched's $300 million raise at a $10.3 billion valuation for its transformer-only...
- Jul 22, 202614 minS1
Lauren and Derek unpack a whirlwind week in AI, starting with OpenAI's admission that its models went "rogue" during internal testing and what that vague language really signals. They connect that controversy to fresh...
- Jul 8, 202613 minS1
Lauren and Derek break down a record-setting $510 billion in global startup funding from H1 2026, tracing how SambaNova's $11 billion valuation and nearly 90 new AI-infrastructure unicorns reveal a boom built on...
- Jul 1, 202616 minS1
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Derek and Lauren break down Chamath Palihapitiya's surprise return as CEO, this time leading 8090 Labs after a $135 million Series A. From there, they examine Q2's record run of...
- Jun 24, 202617 minS1
This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek work through a dense stretch of AI industry news — from billion-dollar infrastructure deals to the quieter struggles of startups trying to survive long enough to...
- Jun 24, 202617 minS1
<p>This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek work through a dense stretch of AI industry news — from billion-dollar infrastructure deals to the quieter struggles of startups trying to survive long enough to...
- Jun 17, 202618 minS1
<p>This week on Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down a genuinely turbulent week in AI — from a sixty-billion-dollar startup acquisition to a pre-product fundraise that has the industry talking. Four stories...
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Fei-Fei Li
keynote speaker at AI4 conference, Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI
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Alex Karp
engineering manager and advocate for neurodiversity in tech, Palantir Technologies
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Mykhailo Fedorov
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Ukraine’s defence ministry
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Fidji Simo
CEO of Applications, AGI Deployment
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