THIS WEEK IN AI: Google's New "Vibe Designer", The Rivian Uber Disaster, OpenAI's Shopping Spree

E143 - THIS WEEK IN AI: Google's New "Vibe Designer", The Rivian Uber Disaster, OpenAI's Shopping Spree

Published: March 20, 2026

Duration: 31:07


Google just dropped two products that sent shockwaves through the tech world. Stitch, their new AI design tool, wiped billions off Figma's market cap overnight. Their new coding stack in Google AI Studio is going straight at Anthropic's Claude Code. Meanwhile, Uber just bet $1.25 billion on Rivian robotaxis — but the math doesn't add up. OpenAI acquired Astral and PromptFu as they pivot hard toward enterprise and coding. Cursor launched their own in-house model with some very creative chart work. And MiniMax M2.7 might be the first AI model that meaningfully trained itself. We break down all of it pl...