Stephan's Daily Tech News

E124 - AI Companies Leak Code, Amazon Blames AI, McCartney Banned

Published: April 6, 2026

Duration: 20:50

Joe Progran kicks off the show with a whirlwind of AI mishaps, from Anthropic’s accidental GitHub takedown and code leak to Amazon’s AI‑linked outages and Salesforce’s AI‑enhanced Slackbot overhaul. He then surveys the surge in cloud spending, AI‑driven data‑center heat islands, Apple’s multi‑command Siri test, SpaceX’s confidential IPO filing, Russia’s state‑run Max super‑app, and quantum‑computing breakthroughs that could crack encryption. The episode wraps with a quirky tale of Paul McCartney’s Reddit ban, underscoring how even legends can’t escape tech turbulence.