China’s EUV Machine?

China’s EUV Machine?

Author: Morning Brew December 18, 2025 Duration: 20:14
Has China cracked a major puzzle for chip parity? Trump Media merges with a… Fusion Energy startup? Coinbase continues its efforts to let you trade everything. OpenAI is turning on the fundraising afterburners. And how to catch a North Korean IT infiltrator. China may have reverse engineered EUV lithography tool in covert lab, report claims — employees given fake IDs to avoid secret project being detected, prototypes expected in 2028 (Tom's Hardware) Trump media group agrees $6bn merger with Google-backed fusion energy company (FT) Coinbase adds prediction markets and stock trading in push to be one-stop trading app (CNBC) OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion (The Information) Amazon Caught North Korean IT Worker By Tracing Keystroke Data (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How To AI With WSJ's Chris Mims [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:00
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Anthropic Makes Its Move [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:31
Anthropic raises the second largest financing round of all time. Other AI players are beginning to show hockey stick revenue growth. Meta wants to add facial recognition to its glasses. Ring pulls back from some recognit…
Pour Moi, C'est Le Déluge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:11
Aaannddd…. Right on time here come the Chinese AI models. Elon Musk kicks off a major reorg of xAI. Google is warning of AI distillation attacks. New Waymo cars hit the road. And another interesting AI essay to read to y…
The “Covid Moment” For AI? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:29
Forget the ChatGPT moment, is this the “Covid Moment” for AI, the moment when everything has changed its just that not everyone knows it yet? More weird musical chairs at the AI companies. TikTok but for around the block…
AI: Better, Faster, Stronger… Or Just Working Harder? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:13
So, have you hit the ads in ChatGPT yet, cause they’re there. Spotify comes out of nowhere with killer good earnings. The coming tidal wave of Chinese AI launches. The coming deluge of social media trials. And does AI us…
The AI Superbowl [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:39
Sam Altman assures staff that OpenAI has a good week, but is Anthropic definitively growing faster at this point? Is the CapEx spend about to eat ALL of Silicon Valley’s free cashflow while Apple sits out the party? And…
Piracy Is Back! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:15
Claude Opus 4.6 arrives to crown Anthropic’s very good week, at least, for them it was good. You thought tech was spending big to build out for AI, but this week we’ve seen how big. Crypto seems to have really hit a shar…
Is Software Eating The World Being Eaten By AI? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:43
Alphabet earnings. Claude goes to the Superbowl. Why AI brand loyalty isn’t even remotely a thing yet. And is the whole Marc Andreessen theory of software eating the world in the process of being eaten by AI? Wall Street…
(BNS) Ring Founder Jamie Siminoff [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:00
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SpaceX Acquires xAI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:23
As SpaceX acquires xAI, all of Elon’s companies under one umbrella is pretty much an inevitability isn’t it? What is with this weird game of chicken that Nvidia and OpenAI and now Oracle are all engaging in all of the su…