Power Bites - February 20, 2026

About this episode

This episode covers significant recent events in technology, including layoffs and ethical concerns in AI.

Anthropic raises $30 billion and its CEO admits he's struggling to keep his values. Elon Musk ships four AI agents that argue with each other before answering you. Microsoft stores data in kitchen glass for 10,000 years. A former speechwriter for Zuckerberg and Musk launches a nonprofit saying we're "sleepwalking into disaster." And 30,700 tech workers lost their jobs in six weeks. This week didn't just make headlines, it rewrote the rules. I break it all down in this week's PowerBites, where...

People in this episode

Host: Julio Zelaya

Topics covered

• AI development
• job market
• technology ethics
• nonprofit initiatives
• data storage

Keywords

• Anthropic
• Elon Musk
• Microsoft
• tech layoffs
• AI agents
• nonprofit
• data storage

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Microsoft

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