# AI NEWS | Episode 32

- Show: [Built 2 Scale](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale)
- Published: 2025-12-15
- Length: 14m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-15-ai-news-episode-32
- Listen: https://b2spod.captivate.fm

## Summary

Hosts Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox discuss OpenAI's strategic pivot to hardware, highlighted by hiring 40 Apple engineers and the vision of AI models running on network nodes without traditional operating systems. They analyze Meta's aggressive acquisition of Limitless AI wearables, noting the privacy policy changes and the company's pivot away from open source AI. The episode also covers Boom Supersonic's pivot to energy infrastructure for data centers, space-based data centers proposed by Gavin Baker, and the resulting 25-30% surge in construction wages due to AI infrastructure demand.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-15-ai-news-episode-32#t=0) Introduction: OpenAI's Hardware Play and Apple Engineers
- [3:10](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-15-ai-news-episode-32#t=190) Meta's Acquisition of Limitless and Privacy Policy Controversy
- [4:24](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-15-ai-news-episode-32#t=264) Gavin Baker's Case for Space-Based Data Centers
- [8:19](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-15-ai-news-episode-32#t=499) Kalshi Founder Becomes Youngest Female Billionaire
- [9:13](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-15-ai-news-episode-32#t=553) Boom Supersonic's Pivot to Energy Infrastructure
- [11:49](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/built-2-scale/2025-12-15-ai-news-episode-32#t=709) Construction Wage Surge and Labor Market Effects

## Topics

- [Mechanical engineering](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/mechanical-engineering)
- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)
- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Hiring & workforce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/hiring-and-workforce)
- [Starting a product company](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/starting-a-company)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- OpenAI (company)
- Apple (company)
- Meta (company)
- Limitless (product)
- Gavin Baker (other)
- Boom Supersonic (company)
- Kalshi (company)
- PolyMarket (company)
- SpaceX (company)
- Blue Origin (company)
- Y Combinator (company)
- Altium (other)

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- [Episode 72: Apple Intelligence and Closed Loop Private Computing](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-circuit/2024-06-17-episode-72-apple-intelligence-and-closed-loop-private-computing) (The Circuit)
- [EP 156: Evolving Dynamics of AI Infrastructure, Open Source Agents, Meta's ASIC Roadmap](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-circuit/2026-03-16-ep-156-evolving-dynamics-of-ai-infrastructure-open-source-agents-metas-asic-road) (The Circuit)
- [Episode 122: Apple's WWDC, AMD AI Event, Semiconductors 2.0](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-circuit/2025-06-16-episode-122-apples-wwdc-amd-ai-event-semiconductors-2-0) (The Circuit)
- [EP 136: WE DON'T HAVE THE POWER!](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-circuit/2025-10-06-ep-136-we-dont-have-the-power) (The Circuit)

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