Communist coffee hits NYC, RIP Hulu, GPT-5 arrives and more | E2161

Today’s show:

It’s a brand-new PACKED episode of TWiST. Jason and Alex welcome guest Zach Dive of Adam.new, to tell us why he made a deepfake AI ad starring Jason and the All-In besties.

PLUS a rundown of the biggest tech and startup news of the day, including Disney’s decision to sunset Hulu, OpenAI’s new open-weight models, the Cloudflare vs. Perplexity feud, Uber’s newly-announced stock buyback, China’s Luckin Coffee coming to Manhattan, and much much more!

Timestamps:

(0:00) Luckin Coffee hits NYC… along with COMMUNISM?!

(09:15) Is China taking on major American brands on PURPOSE?

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(11:29) Show Continues…

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(21:30) Show Continues…

(26:02) RIP HULU: Why Disney is sunsetting the iconic app.

(28:37) Nostracanis Returns: Jason’s 2017 Disney vs. Netflix predictions came true

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(31:28) Show Continues…

(35:39) Zach Dive of Adam.new joins to tell us about making a viral deepfake ad starring JCal and the Besties

(44:10) Zach shares thoughts on AI and copyright, and why it’s a problem for the “big dogs,” not him… yet

(48:12) Jason wants to wet his beak… but is there room in the Adam.new seed round?

(53:07)OpenAI’s new models are open-WEIGHT; how that’s different from open-source.

(58:36) Do Nvidia and Apple devices NEED kill switches and backdoors? Why it’s such a tough question.

(01:02:10) GPT-5 arrives TOMORROW?!

(01:03:31) Cloudflare vs. Perplexity… let them fight?

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