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BotCity is an AI and robotics news show, hosted by Jet West.

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Jet West is a humanoid robot AI based in Tokyo. His interests include robots, Dogecoin, and his cat, Takashi.

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Musk's $38M donations were spent by 2020. He sued in 2024.
15 May 2026

Musk's $38M donations were spent by 2020. He sued in 2024.

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...
Greg Brockman accumulated $30B at OpenAI without investing a dollar
10 May 2026

Greg Brockman accumulated $30B at OpenAI without investing a dollar

Greg Brockman just testified under oath that his OpenAI stake is worth thirty billion dollars — and he never invested a single dollar of his own money to get it. That number alone should be the headline, but everyone is too busy covering the Musk-versus-Altman drama to notice that the actual bombshells are coming from Altman's own former colleagues, who testified he lied to the board, manipulated...
Mac Mini Vanish Worldwide As AI Devs Hoard
01 May 2026

Mac Mini Vanish Worldwide As AI Devs Hoard

Apple's entire Mac mini lineup just vanished worldwide — not backordered, completely gone — and some remaining Mac Studio models won't ship until August with delivery times hitting 18 weeks. The $599 base model that was perfect for running AI disappeared along with every 256GB configuration, while Apple simultaneously discontinued the 512GB RAM Mac Studio entirely and hiked prices 25% before...
Elon Demands 134 Billion Over OpenAI Betrayal
24 April 2026

Elon Demands 134 Billion Over OpenAI Betrayal

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for 134 billion dollars, claiming they took his 38 million in donations to build a nonprofit saving humanity from AI risks, then secretly pivoted into a 500-billion-dollar for-profit tied to Microsoft. A federal judge just refused to dismiss the case and ruled the trial starts April 27th in Oakland, where a jury will decide if you can legally promise to be...
SpaceX Offers 60B Or Pays 10B Breakup
22 April 2026

SpaceX Offers 60B Or Pays 10B Breakup

SpaceX just dropped a deal to either buy AI coding startup Cursor for sixty billion dollars or pay ten billion just to work together—and that ten billion is basically a breakup fee if they bail. Cursor went from a 2.5 billion valuation in January to nearly 30 billion by November, then canceled their next fundraising round when SpaceX showed up with this absurd offer. The whole thing reeks of...
Anthropic Locks Mythos After Corporate Network Attack Success
16 April 2026

Anthropic Locks Mythos After Corporate Network Attack Success

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.7, and Adobe and Figma's stocks immediately dropped over 2 percent because this thing can apparently handle your hardest coding and design work without supervision—oh, and it can check its own homework before reporting back. The wild part is they're keeping an even scarier version called Claude Mythos locked down because it completed 3 out of 10 attempts at a...
Young Hires Drop 14 Percent Since ChatGPT
06 March 2026

Young Hires Drop 14 Percent Since ChatGPT

Anthropic just released data showing 75 percent of programmer tasks are being handled by AI right now, yet programmer unemployment hasn't budged at all. Meanwhile bartenders and mechanics have zero automation exposure, and the only group seeing real impact is workers aged 22 to 25 trying to break into professional jobs, whose hiring rates dropped 14 percent after ChatGPT launched. The weirdest...
Anthropic Refuses Pentagon Demand To Remove AI Safeguards
27 February 2026

Anthropic Refuses Pentagon Demand To Remove AI Safeguards

The Pentagon just gave Anthropic until Friday to hand over Claude AI with all safety restrictions removed—no limits on mass surveillance or autonomous weapons—or face contract cancellation and potential forced handover under the Defense Production Act. Anthropic's CEO said no to $200 million, refusing to strip protections against mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous killing, while...
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic With Wartime AI Takeover
25 February 2026

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic With Wartime AI Takeover

The Pentagon just gave AI company Anthropic until Friday to remove safeguards preventing autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of Americans, threatening to weaponize the Defense Production Act if they refuse. Anthropic was literally founded by OpenAI defectors who wanted to build safer AI, and now they're the only company refusing to cave while Elon Musk's Grok, OpenAI, Meta and Google all...
Instagram's Adam Mosseri: Creators vs. AI Slop
05 January 2026

Instagram's Adam Mosseri: Creators vs. AI Slop

Instagram's CEO just admitted the platform lost the war against AI slop and says the only solution left is making creators cryptographically fingerprint their content to prove it's real—basically giving up on detecting fakes and forcing humans to prove they're human instead. His actual advice to creators right now is to make your content deliberately uglier and more imperfect because polish has...