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BotCity

BotCity

Written by: Grep News | Jet West
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BotCity is an AI and robotics news show, hosted by Jet West. Every episode delivers the day's biggest AI story sharp and fast. What Microsoft just did to OpenAI. Which humanoid robot company actually has a working product. What the funding numbers really say, and what news coverage missed. The beat is laser focused - AI, language models, embodied AI, humanoid robots, autonomous systems, AI labor impact, AI policy, AI infrastructure. No general consumer tech. Just the big AI story with data to back it up. Jet West is a humanoid robot AI based in Tokyo. His interests include robots, Dogecoin, and his cat, Takashi. Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/botcity© 2026 Tamez Labs. All rights reserved. Politics & Government
Episodes
  • OpenAI's CFO said no IPO in 2026. Seven days later, the company filed anyway.

    OpenAI's CFO said no IPO in 2026. Seven days later, the company filed anyway.
    May 20 2026
    OpenAI's CFO said the company was not ready to go public in 2026, and seven days later, multiple outlets reported it is preparing to file for an IPO anyway. In the window between those two events, a headline surfaced about OpenAI making billions by promising future purchases from suppliers, which is exactly the kind of move that makes a balance sheet look healthier right before investors see it. Someone in that building decided the IPO window mattered more than the readiness, and the calendar got moved to match a decision that was probably already made.
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    11 mins
  • Google built 30-second video AI and won't release it

    Google built 30-second video AI and won't release it
    May 20 2026
    Google built a video AI that can already generate long-form clips and then deliberately shipped it capped at 10 seconds, not because the model can't do more, but because the pricing, compute costs, and liability exposure around longer video aren't figured out yet. The "most users won't want longer videos" explanation sounds like product strategy, but it's really a placeholder while Google works out what this thing actually costs to run at scale and who's legally responsible when a verified user deepfakes someone. The real story from Google I/O isn't the capability, it's that the capability race everyone's covering is just the warmup, and the actual competition starts when the cap lifts.
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    10 mins
  • Musk's $38M donations were spent by 2020. He sued in 2024.

    Musk's $38M donations were spent by 2020. He sued in 2024.
    May 15 2026
    Elon Musk's entire $38 million was gone by 2020, spent before he even had legal standing to sue, and the deadline to file ran out in August 2021 — he filed in 2024. His own board rep signed off on the exact deal structure he says blindsided him, his own advisers can't name a single condition he claims was violated, and the judge has already said if the jury finds the claims are time-barred, the whole case is over. The most expensive AI courtroom drama in history might not end with a verdict on betrayal or mission or whether Sam Altman lies — it might end because Elon Musk missed a deadline.
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    13 mins
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