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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: This solo-hosted daily news roundup delivers concise tech headlines with sharp analysis, tying global politics, market tremors, and industry pivots to the fast-evolving AI and infrastructure boom. Technical and skeptical.
- The Format: A host-led narrative news summary scanning daily tech developments.
- The Key Players:
- Just Hosts: Brad McCullough banters solo with wry insights from his film school background, centering banter on AI hype risks, trade tensions, and opportunistic business shifts in a volatile tech landscape.
🗝️ Key Themes & Topics
The episode unpacks geopolitical friction, AI investment jitters, infrastructure opportunism, and creative industry rifts amid the 2025 tech slowdown.
- Topic 1: US-UK Tech Trade Deal Pause. The US halts a September "tech prosperity deal" with the UK, citing unmet promises on lowering trade barriers, digital services taxes targeting US giants like Google and Amazon, online safety rules, and agricultural exports; this leverages Trump's tariffs to force concessions despite prior pomp like King Charles' invite.
- Topic 2: Second Tech Bear Market of 2025. Shares of AI infrastructure players like Broadcom, CoreWeave, and Oracle plunge—Oracle down 46% since September—amid doubts on massive capex ROI, with Oracle's debt ballooning to 500% debt-to-equity, Broadcom expec
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:00) **US Pauses Tech Trade Deal with UK**
- 2 (04:35) **Second Tech Bear Market of 2025: AI Infrastructure Declines**
- 3 (12:36) **Ford Pivots from EVs to Data Center Battery Storage**
- 4 (14:38) **Hollywood Civil War Over AI**
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Show Notes
Tech continues to be a major geopolitical stumbling block, this time with the UK. Are we currently in the midst of the second mini-tech recession of the year? If Ford can pivot from EV’s to servicing datacenters, maybe you can too. And the civil war lining up in Hollywood, over AI.
- U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block (NYTimes)
- AI infrastructure selloff continues on Wall Street as Broadcom, Oracle shares slide (CNBC)
- CoreWeave’s Staggering Fall From Market Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears (WSJ)
- Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid (TechCrunch)
- AI has the entertainment industry torn between keeping up and keeping talent happy. (BloombergBusinessweek)
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