Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This week on the show: Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht arrives in Seattle (geekwire.com/2026/photos-mark-zuckerbergs-superyacht-arrives-in-seattle-the-same-day-meta-discloses-1400-local-job-cuts/) the same day Meta discloses nearly 1,400 local layoffs (geekwire.com/2026/meta-cuts-nearly-1400-jobs-in-washington-state-20-of-local-workforce-in-sweeping-ai-revamp/) , robot pizza startup Picnic flames out and sells to a mystery buyer (geekwire.com/2026/robot-pizza-startup-runs-out-of-dough-picnic-shuts-down-sells-assets-to-mystery-buyer/) , and corporate America confronts the rising cost of AI (wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-tokens-productivity-d35c6bd8) , including the leaderboard-gaming practice known as "tokenmaxxing." (ft.com/content/b1a62a7f-6df5-4c90-94ce-64ce9c9961b6) And we return to the theme of billionaire yachts for our trivia challenge.


With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook. 


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