Power Bites - March 13, 2026

About this episode

This episode covers significant recent events in technology, including an AI hack, new projects by Elon Musk, and developments in robotics and legal actions in the tech industry.

This week, an AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours flat — no credentials, no insider access — exposing 46.5 million messages. That same week, Elon Musk launched a project called "Macrohard" (yes, really), Anthropic sued the Pentagon, humanoid robots arrived in Ukraine, and Uber signed two robotaxi deals in 72 hours. If you feel like the world shifted while you were in a meeting… it did. I break it all down in this week's PowerBites — what happened, what it means for yo...

People in this episode

Host: Julio Zelaya

Topics covered

• AI hacking
• technology news
• robotaxi deals
• humanoid robots
• legal issues in tech
• Elon Musk projects

Keywords

• AI agent
• McKinsey hack
• Elon Musk
• robotaxi
• humanoid robots
• Anthropic lawsuit
• technology news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: McKinsey, Anthropic, Uber

Products: Macrohard

Places: Ukraine

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