{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Chaos Lever Podcast","title":"Proton's AI Pivot & Gemma Space Haikus | Tech News of the Week","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6b46f037\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1734,"description":"Welcome to Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2026. This week we are covering: Proton's awkward AI pivot, Google's orbital data center satellite, GitHub's agentic infrastructure challenges, and much more.\n🔒 Privacy Focused Email and VPN Company Makes an Awkward as Fuck Pivot Into AI Development … And I Don’t Know How To Feeeeeeeelllllllll\nProton faced significant backlash and ultimately canceled planned employee re-interviews after leaked internal communications revealed an aggressive push by CEO Andy Yen to prioritize AI velocity over security practices.\nhttps://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job/\nhttps://aiweekly.co/alerts/proton-ceo-scraps-ai-re-interviews-after-memo-leak\n\n🛰️ POEMS IN SPACE!\nGoogle successfully launched its $3.5 million Suncatcher orbital AI data center satellite and tested its onboard Trillium TPU by having a Gemma 4 model generate a haiku about being in space.\nhttps://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/googles-ai-satellite-sends-a-very-expensive-haiku-to-earth/5306818\n\n🐙 I don’t think the world needs a new GitHub, says Github\nAs AI coding agents drive an massive surge in commit volumes and trigger new competition from platforms like Cursor's Origin and Entire, GitHub leadership insists the platform is evolving to handle the workload despite recent outages.\nhttps://thenewstack.io/github-agentic-infrastructure-rebuild/\nhttps://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents\n\n📼 Tape Is Dead: Long Live Tape\nDriven by AI archiving demands and the need for air-gapped ransomware protection, Fujifilm is investing $63 million to increase its LTO tape production capacity fivefold.\nhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/\n\n💻 Apple Announces The Most Powerful, Feature-Rich Macbook Pro in Their History, with Touch-enabled Display as Almost an Afterthought\nApple...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ecwKB0KfOAqThx8XJn3uyhrnsTE0w2H6WtKhFKuXWso/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ4ODQxLzE3MDU2/MTUyOTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}