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Lightwork

Lightspeed 1 Episodes Jun 29, 2026

There's more AI news than anyone can possibly consume. Lightwork is the filter. Every Monday, Lightspeed's Claire Zau and Josh Machiz break down the one development that mattered most that week — a model release, a funding round, a company structural shift — and work through what changes because of it. They also bring in a guest working at the front of AI to sharpen the picture. By the end of each episode, you'll have a clearer view of where things are going and why it matters to you.

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Midjourney Medical, ChatGPT Loses Its Lead & Google DeepMind's Big Exits | Lightwork Jun 29, 2026 00:53:38 Claire Zau and Josh Machiz dig into a week that put AI's biggest players under the microscope. Meta reshuffled thousands of engineers into new roles many described as soul-crushing, and the internal fallout went public fast. ChatGPT crossed a milestone nobody expected this soon, losing its majority share of the global AI assistant market for the first time ever. And in the same 48 hours, Googl

Snap Launches Specs, Bezos’s $41B AI Startup & The SpaceX Cursor Deal | Lightwork Jun 22, 2026 00:45:00 This week, Claire and Josh break down Snap's $2,195 bet on life after the smartphone, Jeff Bezos stepping back into an operator seat with Prometheus, a new AI company that raised $18B to build AI for the physical world, and SpaceX closing the largest IPO in history before turning around and acquiring Cursor for $60 billion.Lightspeed growth partner James Ephrati joins to walk through his obser

The SpaceX IPO, Apple Rebuilds Siri & Anthropic Releases Fable 5 Jun 15, 2026 01:00:16 Join us as Claire Zau and Josh Machiz discuss one of the most powerful AI model ever released to the public (now with brakes built in), Apple rebuilding Siri with help from Google's Gemini, and SpaceX opening for trading in the largest IPO in history. Plus a quiet milestone with loud implications, as AI agents now generate more web traffic than actual people.Lightspeed co-founder Ravi Mhatre j

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