Will Iran Target Tech?

March 31, 2026

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Iran's IRGC has threatened to target 18 US tech companies, including Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Tesla, Oracle, HP, Intel, and IBM, starting at 8 p.m. local time on April 1. The military arm accuses them of aiding US attacks by planning and tracking targets. It urged employees to leave workplaces immediately. This follows earlier Iranian drone strikes on Amazon data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, amid growing AI investments in the region by countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Iran's hacking capabilities, run by the IRGC, Ministry of Intelligence, proxies, and hacktivists, have targeted Israeli employees, Albanian politicians, a Polish nuclear center, and US firm Stryker, disrupting medical supplies.

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What you'll learn

1 (00:34) **Episode Welcome and Teaser** - Brian McCullough previews Iran tech threats, Meta glasses, Claude Code, SpaceX, and Whoop
2 (01:02) **Iran Announces Targeting of US Tech Firms** - IRGC lists Apple, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, and others for attacks starting April 1st in Middle East
3 (02:10) **Middle East AI Investments at Risk** - UAE/Saudi AI spending rises amid Trump partnerships, but Iran hacking escalates concerns
4 (02:29) **Iran's Battle-Hardened Cyber Forces** - Hackers sow chaos, steal intel; past attacks on defense contractors, Albania, Poland, Stryker
5 (04:32) **Meta Launches Ray-Ban Blazer and Scribe Optics** - $499 smart glasses with slimmer frames, swappable pads, prescription lens support
6 (06:46) **Claude Code Source Leak Exposes Architecture** - NPM misconfig reveals three-layer memory solving context entropy, self-healing index
7 (08:46) **Anthropic Model Roadmap and Challenges** - Codenames: Capibara (Claude 4.6), Fennec (Opus 6), Numbat; V8 has 20-30% false claims

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Show Notes

Is the Iran war coming for US tech companies specifically? Meta unveils new smartglasses. A leak gives us a look at how Claude Code works. SpaceX is losing contact with satellites for reasons we don’t know yet. And Whoop is the big wearable player I guess we don’t talk about enough.

Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East (The Hill)
Iran’s hackers go to war (FT)
The latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are more customizable and expensive (Engadget)
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know (VentureBeat)
Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite (9to5Google)
Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded (The Verge)
Whoop, a Wearable Health Device Maker, Raises $575 Million (NYTimes)

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