OM DENNE EPISODE
Claire Zau and Josh Machiz open with news that almost sounds made up. Google sent a prompt to a satellite, a model running on chips in orbit answered it, and the answer came back as a haiku. Claire walks through Project Suncatcher, how the hardware got up there on a rideshare launch with SpaceX, what the test actually proved, and why Google’s longer term vision looks different from everyone else putting a computer in space. The next milestone is smaller than you’d think and more important than it sounds.Later, Binance was reached not through some new AI attack but through a hiring process that never existed, ending in a file somebody downloaded onto a work laptop. Across Europe, attackers went after supermarket freezer controllers, many of them past end of life and still running default passwords, and the targets have since moved beyond food. Finally, is the internet dying? Reddit’s latest numbers put a real figure on what happens when Google answers the question instead of sending you the link, and Josh and Claire get into AI slop, what Andrej Karpathy built to escape it, and whether the value is shifting from publishing information to curating it.Chapters:0:00 Welcome to Lightwork1:09 Google's AI Breakthrough in Space1:45 Project Star Catcher and Space Data Centers6:01 Google's Next Steps for Space Data Centers7:27 Binance's $6.3 Billion Crypto Theft10:56 Cyberattacks Target Supermarket Freezers14:27 Is the Internet Dying?15:57 Andrej Karpathy's Answer to AI Slop16:58 Reddit Loses Traffic to Google's AI Search20:02 AI Reviews vs. Human Commentary21:40 How Marketers Can Leverage Reddit in the AI Era23:31 Why Content Curation Matters in the AI EraStay in touch: www.lsvp.comX: https://twitter.com/lightspeedvpLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightspeed/The content here does not constitute tax, legal, business or investment advice or an offer to provide such advice, should not be construed as advocating the purchase or sale of any security or investment or a recommendation of any company, and is not an offer, or solicitation of an offer, for the purchase or sale of any security or investment product. The views expressed by our guests do not necessarily represent the views of Lightspeed. For more details please see lsvp.com/legal.
