Bourbon with Brad

AI & Crypto Headlines - May 18, 2026

It’s a packed news cycle. Trump and Xi met in Beijing with AI chips on the table and walked away empty-handed. Anthropic is closing in on a $30 billion raise at a near-trillion-dollar valuation, just days after announcing a $200 million deal with the Gates Foundation to bring AI to global health, farming, and education. OpenAI launched a whole new deployment company. Google I/O opens tomorrow with Gemini under pressure. The entire founding team at SpaceXAI has walked out the door. Bitcoin is taking a macro beating. And AI-powered hackers are coming for the crypto sector. Pour something good — there’s a lot to get into. Legal Disclaimer: The views & opinions shared on the Podcast are our own & those of our guests. Nothing we discuss should be taken as financial, legal, business, or gambling advice. Don’t make investment, business, or betting decisions based on our conversations as you should always talk to a qualified professional. Listeners must always drink responsibly, never drink & drive, & only consume alcohol if you are of legal drinking age. Disclosure: Some of the images in the Podcast were AI generated &/or edited with AI. The cover image was AI generated. The voice overs are original AI generated voices. The theme music is an original instrumental created using AI. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations [https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

Orbiting Data Centers, Penelope Pours, and the 5th Segment Chaos

Tonight’s pour is the classic Penelope Bourbon, and it sets the tone for an episode that swings from the stratosphere to the seafloor. Brad kicks things off by asking the week’s most unhinged infrastructure question: If we’re putting data centers in orbit and in the ocean… why not slap them on the poles too? The logic is questionable. The bourbon is not. From there, the conversation shifts as we wrap up our thoughts on Claude and dive headfirst into Microsoft Copilot—what it is, what it isn’t, and why it’s about to reshape how people work. And of course… it wouldn’t be Bourbon with Brad without The 5th Segment—the part of the show where structure goes to die and the best ideas somehow show up anyway. Legal Disclaimer: The views & opinions shared on the Podcast are our own & those of our guests. Nothing we discuss should be taken as financial, legal, business, or gambling advice. Don’t make investment, business, or betting decisions based on our conversations as you should always talk to a qualified professional. Listeners must always drink responsibly, never drink & drive, & only consume alcohol if you are of legal drinking age. Disclosure: Some of the images in the Podcast were AI generated &/or edited with AI. The cover image was AI generated. The voice overs are original AI generated voices. The theme music is an original instrumental created using AI. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations [https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

AI & Crypto Daily Headlines - May 14, 2026

The AI world surges ahead as CloakBrowser cracks every major bot‑detection suite, Google’s Addy Osmani pushes agents into real engineering workflows, and Anthropic locks in a $1.8B compute deal while Mistral races toward $1B ARR on sovereign‑AI demand. OpenAI drops a real‑time translation blueprint, Anthropic reveals how “evil AI” fiction can distort model behavior, Allen AI debuts a self‑organizing MoE breakthrough, and Google blocks the first AI‑discovered zero‑day. In Washington, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott testifies about the pivotal 2018 email at the center of Musk’s allegations. On the crypto side, Ether ETFs smash records with a $726M inflow while Bitcoin whipsaws below $79K after $304M in longs are liquidated on hot inflation data. Legal Disclaimer: The views & opinions shared on the Podcast are our own & those of our guests. Nothing we discuss should be taken as financial, legal, business, or gambling advice. Don’t make investment, business, or betting decisions based on our conversations as you should always talk to a qualified professional. Listeners must always drink responsibly, never drink & drive, & only consume alcohol if you are of legal drinking age. Disclosure: Some of the images in the Podcast were AI generated &/or edited with AI. The cover image was AI generated. The voice overs are original AI generated voices. The theme music is an original instrumental created using AI. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations [https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

AI & Crypto Headlines - May 13, 2026

AI surged again over the past 24 hours, with the Musk–OpenAI trial revealing new details about Elon’s push for control, Meta rolling out major upgrades including Live AI and cross‑platform Muse Spark tools, Nvidia warning that AI compute now costs more than human employees, and Meta introducing a first‑of‑its‑kind journalist compensation model for AI‑trained content. ByteDance launched a new multimodal agent stack, Datawhale debuted its Easy‑Vibe coding curriculum, and a new study showed ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude wildly disagree on which jobs are most at risk. Nvidia continued its $40B investment spree, Wispr Flow expanded across India, and DocketDaily.ai announced its launch next week to track AI, privacy, and cybersecurity legislation nationwide. On the crypto side, Bitcoin ETF inflows surged again, the Senate preps for the CLARITY Act showdown, and DeFi teams tightened security after last week’s exploit wave. Sponsor - https://docketdaily.ai Legal Disclaimer: The views & opinions shared on the Podcast are our own & those of our guests. Nothing we discuss should be taken as financial, legal, business, or gambling advice. Don’t make investment, business, or betting decisions based on our conversations as you should always talk to a qualified professional. Listeners must always drink responsibly, never drink & drive, & only consume alcohol if you are of legal drinking age. Disclosure: Some of the images in the Podcast were AI generated &/or edited with AI. The cover image was AI generated. The voice overs are original AI generated voices. The theme music is an original instrumental created using AI. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations [https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]

AI & Crypto Headlines - May 12, 2026

AI surged again in the last 24 hours, with Google rolling out Gemini 2.0 Flash across Workspace, Anthropic pushing a major Claude 3.7 Vision upgrade (and yes—Claude still analyzes images, it doesn’t create them), Apple locking in its new “Apple Intelligence” features for iOS 20 ahead of WWDC, Amazon launching Bedrock Agents for enterprise automation, Stability AI dropping a huge quality jump with Stable Diffusion 4.1, Hugging Face unveiling a $200M open‑source compute fund, and Nvidia beginning shipments of its next‑gen Blackwell GPUs. On the crypto side, Bitcoin ETF inflows surged again, the Senate gears up for the CLARITY Act showdown, and DeFi teams scramble to harden security after last week’s exploit wave. Legal Disclaimer: The views & opinions shared on the Podcast are our own & those of our guests. Nothing we discuss should be taken as financial, legal, business, or gambling advice. Don’t make investment, business, or betting decisions based on our conversations as you should always talk to a qualified professional. Listeners must always drink responsibly, never drink & drive, & only consume alcohol if you are of legal drinking age. Disclosure: Some of the images in the Podcast were AI generated &/or edited with AI. The cover image was AI generated. The voice overs are original AI generated voices. The theme music is an original instrumental created using AI. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations [https://redcircle.com/bourbon-with-brad/donations] Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands [https://redcircle.com/brands] Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy [https://redcircle.com/privacy]