Meta Connect 2026, OpenAI’s Australia ‘Incident,’ Bentley’s New EV | Diet TBPN
24 Sept 2026 · 32 min
In this episode of the Diet TBPN podcast, hosts Jordi Hays, Speaker A, Tyler, and occasional guests dissect the Meta Connect 2026 keynote and its broader implications. They praise the tightly‑run, live‑demo‑heavy presentation, noting Mark Zuckerberg’s avoidance of the problematic wake‑word and the showcase of three new demos. The discussion pivots to Meta’s AI strategy: the Muse personal assistant is framed as a helpful, consumer‑friendly agent that sidesteps the “super‑intelligence” hype, while the newly announced Muse Charm—a palm‑sized, voice‑activated companion—aims to be a cute, low‑cost hardware touchpoint. The hosts analyze how Meta’s massive compute infrastructure, its cross‑app advertising reach, and a “agentic workflow” ad model could monetize Muse’s everyday tasks (e.g., handling parking tickets, booking movies). They also explore internal employee vibes, arguing that the unified AI‑hardware narrative may finally give staff a clear direction after years of scattered projects. The segment then shifts to Meta’s upcoming VR glasses (Meta Ray‑Bans), highlighting a $1,300 price tag, 100‑gram weight, battery‑puck design, and positioning as a cinema/workstation/gaming device that could replace triple‑monitor setups. The hosts critique the hardware’s specs, input methods, and market positioning relative to Apple’s Vision Pro. A brief interlude covers the Australia‑OpenAI incident, describing it as a scrape of publicly accessible but unlisted files rather than a massive data breach. Finally, they review Bentley’s first electric SUV, the Torcal, noting its half‑price‑of‑a‑Ferrari positioning, unique propulsion‑sound design, and the brand’s broader challenges in China, the Middle East, and U.S. tariffs. The episode wraps with promotional plugs and a light‑hearted beer‑pong elbow‑rule metaphor.
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Meta Connect yesterday. Zuck likes going late. He— 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern for the keynote.
Well, 'cause he wanted to roll straight from the keynote into some beer pong.
Oh, that's true. We will get into that big hot debate on the timeline over his beer pong strategy. But really, really tight keynote, very well organized, very clear, didn't overstay its welcome. Did 3 live demos. Last year there was a hiccup with a live demo Wi-Fi, and I believe Boz triggered everyone's agents by using the wake word. So this time he deliberately stayed away from using that wake word and used like the name of his agent. So he didn't cause a lot of chaos in the dome or in the studio, wherever they were. But bunch of great announcements, really good pacing, really tight 1-hour keynote. And it was fun watching Zuck, like, sort of do the live demos and be like, one down. Like, this is high stakes. Like, it was clearly high stakes for him, but he got through it all. No mistakes.
Yeah, he had a funny line. He was like, and we love live demos here.
Yeah. It's funny because, like, he totally could just not do live demos, but he, like, wants to.
So he pushes through it. I think you need to.
Do you?
I think you absolutely need to. People have bought so many random hardware devices that they haven't—
True.
Met expectations.
Yeah. And I guess there was that—
Hardware, if you want people to buy it, you have to do a live demo.
Yeah. There was a demo of a Gemini model running like 2 years ago that was like sped up in post. And that faced a lot of criticism. And so I think, yeah, just demoing things as they are available in the real world is very valuable. And I think in general, like the thesis for the products was like meet people where they are delivering tomorrow's technology with today's constraints. And that's just what I kept seeing as a theme was like, what do people want? And of course, the best— it basically created a huge dichotomy between like the crazy superintelligence RSI, ASI, P-Doom, X-Risk crew, and then just like Muse, it's a helpful agent. Niraj Agarwal summed it up well, Anthropic marketing. We built a god only we can control and gave it a wet lab.
Muse marketing.
Hey girl, I know you have dozens of unpaid parking tickets. Let's get that cleaned up. And it's funny because it's actually working. I think that if you went back to a couple months ago, the consensus was like popularity of AI is turning, it's deeply unpopular. You need to just be quiet or not lean in or just like apologize, like what a lot of the lab leaders are doing, just being like, yeah, it is bad. I'm sorry. But Meta has taken a very different approach. They're not fearmongering. They're just like, it's cute, it's lovable. And they actually are successful. I mean, the New York Times yesterday, Jensen and Ezra are duking it out over like X-risk and acceleration. Do we need to slow down? Meanwhile, the New York Times published like a really positive review of Muse. They like, they love it. And like, they're a tough cookie to like win over basically. So success there. And it's interesting because, It's been, there's been a few strikes for Meta over the past 2 years. The vertical AI slop app Vibes quickly disappeared. I don't even know if it's available anymore. It might have been quietly shuttered or tucked behind a couple different tabs. The core Meta Chat app that was sort of just like a Gemini, a ChatGPT clone, I don't think that ever really took off.
No, over the last year you have massive spending.
Yeah.
Clearly massive focus for Meta.
Yeah.
But the strategy was at most times completely incoherent.
It was scattered.
It was not legible to the markets. It was not legible to—
It was do everything.
Yeah, you had—
But nothing was really accelerating.
Muse Code, you had them buying and then having to undo the Manus acquisition.
Oh, yeah.
The Meta vibe, the first thing, and again, this was an unforced error. The first thing that they did post the whole talent raid was release the short-form slop video app. which wasn't even—
It was Midjourney.
Yeah, it was basically a Midjourney wrapper.
Yeah.
And we were, and everyone was like, okay, like, yeah, this doesn't align to the, to what you're putting out, which is this like personal superintelligence narrative.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so really yesterday, like everything felt like it came together really nicely, right? Tying in all of the hardware investments, tying in personal making personal superintelligence feel a bit more real, right?
Totally.
AI that hustles for you. I think that's smart positioning, but it really felt like things came together for the first time.
Totally.
And I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to give them full credit as— if you were really going to give them full credit for this was the master plan all along, then there's a bunch of other stuff you wouldn't have done unless you were just trying to confuse the market.
Yeah.
You're trying to just confuse people. Are we doing coding?
Yeah.
Are we doing, you know, a knowledge work harness? Are we doing short-form SLOP? And so I think it was really like—
So you're not giving them the benefit of the 4D chess?
No.
Okay.
No, no, no.
Tricky.
But—
Going Occam's razor.
Total credit.
Occam's 4D razor.
Total credit to them for like figuring out how all the pieces connect together.
Yeah.
And then putting that in a 1-hour presentation that actually Like, makes sense.
So what are the pieces that come together? Why does it make sense for Meta's business? Why are they seeing success here when the models haven't jumped to the frontier? The benchmarks have always been a little— there's been a lot of confusion on are they going to sell compute, sell tokens, sell, you know, go after the coding market, desktop agents, all these different things that they were testing. This seems to be working. And I think there's sort sort of 4 key points that come together to make this make sense. So first is like they have scaled and secured systems for years. WhatsApp encryption is a great example. They have a lot of compute and so they can offer a VM for millions of people that is secure and also well-resourced and they won't be losing sleep over costs because they already have a lot of the compute built out. And the question was like, when will the demand come? Are those GPUs sitting idle? Is that infrastructure getting used efficiently? They're building a lot more of it. Do they need to? Well, they gotta find a product to actually distribute all that through, and it seems like they have. 2 was they have the distribution to continually educate people about features and benefits of Muse through big ad placements across the family of apps. I think that there is the world where they've been able to funnel what, like half a billion people over to Threads. It's not a particularly differentiated app. Obviously, it's a different community and it's done well, but it's a different challenge because with Threads, you can just show someone a text post. People know what that looks like. It's more content. They go over there. Job's finished once you show someone. All you need to show is that their community exists over there. They're scrolling Instagram, watching basketball highlights, and you say, hey, there's some basketball commentary going on in Threads. you hop over there. With all the AI agent products, the capabilities change so rapidly that you have to reeducate the consumer on what it's capable of. Like, can it actually deal with parking tickets? Like, if it can, you need to confidently tell someone that. And that capability might change. It might not work one week, and then the model updates, and then all of a sudden you can do that the next week. And so ChatGPT came out, and it was like, it can answer Google searches, it can do your homework, Then it was like, it can write some code. And there's this constant like reeducation of the community. Obviously the early adopters, the enterprise, the business, the startup community tests everything, but consumers don't. Consumers just, they need to be told the new iPhone has an ultra-wide camera, the new iPhone has Memoji. Even though Memoji was not a wildly popular feature, Apple told everyone what it was. We know what it is. Everyone sort of knows. that concept because they ran billboard campaigns and Meta has the ability to actually go and tell everyone what Muse is capable of and run an ad campaign across the whole platform to get people back up to speed on the latest and greatest feature. The third is that no one needs their—
Wait, this one says, deal with parking tickets, hack me out of it, then we are talking.
Well, no, no. So the thing is, is that they are behind on the frontier. They're not dominating all the benchmarks, but it actually doesn't matter. Because no one needs their personal AI agent to solve a Millennium Prize math problem or secure their enterprise infrastructure from cyberattacks. Like, that's not a requirement. The model is definitely good enough for a lot of this. They obviously will increase the model and the capabilities, but it's not what consumers worry about. Consumers don't care about benchmarks. They don't understand them. The benchmarks are often hacked or not indicative of the feel of using a model. And so it leans into the capabilities. They have near frontier intelligence. They have good enough intelligence. And so if it's good enough to do this, you just roll out the capability and the harness is what matters. The integration, the distribution, that's what matters. So they actually didn't launch Watermelon. They've been teasing that for a while. There's been some leaks. It totally could have happened here, but they made the decision to either not rush it because maybe it does just need more time, but also Even if it was ready, I don't think they should have launched it here because Meta Connect's not for that audience. They don't care. Yeah, the AI research is not there.
The watermelon might scare people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You probably don't want it to be too powerful. And then fourth, they of course already have a business model that's heavily aligned with this type of use case advertising. We've talked about this idea that brands would love to sponsor agentic workflows. You open up a personal AI agent and it says, Hey, you know, the new Nathan Fielder movie is coming out in a couple months. I saw that you were scrolling reels. You seem to be a fan of this. You shared the movie trailer with your friend. Do you want me to get tickets, text some of your friends, share it on WhatsApp, share it in your Instagram DMs, and actually make that happen? Send a calendar invite, do everything necessary to take care of that. And I think movie studios are just one example of a business that would happily pay for placement, for extra attention around that particular workflow that they can monetize through the traditional pathway. And then, of course, small businesses will buy pixels anywhere. So if you open it up and there's a full-bleed ad, that's fine. People will pay for that.
Yeah, the other kind of examples that get pretty crazy is your personal agent, for example, knows that you have home insurance that's set to renew in 3 months. And it's like, do you want me to go get 3 competing bids before we renew. Yeah, totally. And it's like, yes, right? And that's like an opportunity for some type of paid placement as well.
For sure. So the vibes, not the app, but the actual vibes at Meta internally, how are the employees feeling? I feel like this is a turning point. I feel like if you're at Meta, you're like, okay, finally there's a thing to align around. We have a strategy. As long as I do something that's in support of Muse and what's going on with the personal superintelligence mission that the CEO and founder has laid out. I'm good even if I'm on Facebook Marketplace team and I feel like I'm gonna get steamrolled because of the Nikita Beer take that everyone's gonna be negotiating and lowballing on Facebook Marketplace. Well, the Facebook Marketplace team, they can say, okay, well now we're gonna build tools for sellers to make that not annoying. And so there's more work to be done and it's more aligned with the overall mission. The vibe should be good. At the same time, The Verge ran a story that said the vibes are internally way off still at Meta, that people are upset about the scattershot nature of the approach, that they're still reeling from the metaverse misadventures. But I feel like that was the last hit piece you could write about Meta. And I think things have turned around.
It's hard to be feeling that bad when the stock's up 38% in the last month.
Yeah. And so, I think it's pretty easy to align all the efforts across what's happening, personal superintelligence. And even if you were on the glasses team, there's a whole narrative of, Well, you were trying to build VR. You were in the division that was building the cool Oculus stuff. It's evolved. And now it's kind of just a GoPro on your face. There's been some negative, oh, these are just for people to spy on each other, blah, blah, blah. But now they even have a version without cameras. And it's very aligned to what the users want. And so the top-line hero initiative, even if you're just on the glasses team and you're like, oh, They're building a data center and that's not really anything to do with me, or they're working on a coding model and like that's not really relevant to like getting more people to wear the Oakleys or the Meta Ray-Bans. Well, now you are aligned. Now you are on the same team. You're rowing in the same direction. And so I would expect the vibes to get better, I think. And yeah, this is all good news, super reflected in the timeline. But I'm even more excited about the VR glasses. That was the highlight for me. It was the one more thing. I was hoping that we'd get a new VR headset last year. We didn't. And no one was speculating that this would drop this year, but it did. And it's very, very cool. So the headline is $1,300 VR glasses. It's 100 grams, which is the weight of a pack of deck of cards. If you go back, John Carmack was the CTO of Oculus working with Palmer Luckey. He came into Meta through the acquisition. He's the creator of Doom, legendary computer scientist now running Keen working on AI. He wound up leaving. Very, very disappointing to not have him realize his vision there at the company. And he had been pounding the table at Meta. And actually, there were some leaks and there was like, oh, this is like a source of frustration because His goal and his mission was to get to 100 grams for the headset, very light, at $100. He said it needs to be cheap and light and then it can go everywhere. Then you can see mass adoption and then you'll get the developer ecosystem, et cetera. Obviously $1,300 is not $100. There's been a lot of inflation, but not that much inflation. But it is half the price of the Apple Vision Pro basically. You're in a more accessible territory.
Half the price.
Oh yeah, it's half the price of specs, and it's, uh, I think it's less than 1% the price of a Ferrari Luce. So yeah, there's that. If you're, if you're in the market, you can just put that on and imagine that you're driving an electric Ferrari.
Glasses and the car sound the same.
Oh yeah, they're both very quiet. But he pitched it as 3 key things: it's a cinema, it's a workstation, and it's a gaming console. You can play VR games on it.
I almost felt like they were listening are just like same line of thought as Ben Thompson because they're rolling out a bunch of like 100 experiences, it sounds like a year, where you're gonna be able to get some entertainment, live entertainment value from your headset.
And specifically sports.
Sports.
Sports.
You can sit anywhere in the stadium.
Yes, yes, yes. And you can pick your seat. And I don't think they will be doing the crazy frenetic editing or the cutdowns. They have a great deal with UFC. Obviously, Dana White's on the board. But it seems like they also rolled out partnerships with so many other leagues to get that there. They also put the compute and the battery pack on a puck that you wear on your belt. I love that design. It was very controversial, very un-Apple when Apple Vision Pro did it and everyone was like, Steve Jobs never would've stood for this. Well, like that's the reality of the technology. It doesn't make sense to put a battery on your face. And so put it on, put it in your pocket. I've never had a problem with the way the Apple Vision Pro works with the tether. And they did a good job in the promotional videos of like hiding the puck. Like you can't even see it there. So they're clearly aware that you want to forget about it. And I think in the best case, you actually can. So very good there. The interesting—
The other dynamic tabletop typing. So if you have a flat surface in front of you.
Bad. Bad. No one wants to do that.
German says it's insane.
I don't think it'll—
I trust him with my life.
Okay, okay, maybe. I think people will either connect this to a computer and just be using their computer, or they'll just be using voice. I think that that's like a half measure, like the writing. And I think it won't be— it'll be 99% of the way there. So in a demo, you'll be like, oh, this is pretty good. But If you're thinking about actually wearing this for work hours a day, you'll be like, yeah, let me get a $20 keyboard. It has tactile feedback. Like, you can actually feel the keys move. I don't know. It's good that they did it. Like, it's clearly cool. It's possible. And especially if you're in a situation where you can't bring a keyboard or a laptop, like, that makes a lot of sense. That is a glimpse into the future. I would be surprised if that has— If that's the dominant input, like, way people input stuff, they'll either just talk to it because the voice models are good, or they'll be locked in at a computer with an actual keyboard.
It's just an awesome step forward to, you know, humanity living inside a world owned and controlled and monetized by Mark Zuckerberg.
Instead of trying to purely position it as, like, this entirely new thing, metaverse that you live in and VR and everything's immersive and Full immersion. Instead, you're like, this can replace your triple monitor display. And you're like, yeah, you know what? I was in the market for a triple monitor display. It was going to be $2,000 across 3 monitors. Why don't I pick up this instead? And if they can deliver on that, I still think this might be V1 and it might be the second one that actually gets the breakout success and really broad adoption.
Yeah, he did say this is a glimpse of the future.
Yeah.
And anytime you hear that, You're kind of thinking, okay, like I'm gonna get some cool demos.
Yeah.
It's not gonna be daily.
Yeah. I mean, it'll take, take a while for the ecosystem, but it was the same thing with the iPhone. Like the first iPhone didn't have an app store, didn't have 3G, but it kicked off the beginning of, of a big revolution. And this feels like it could be that. Also the, the pixel density, they haven't shared the exact specs. It feels like it might be 5K per eye, which is about 53%, about half as much as the Apple Vision Pro. So there's a, There's a world where in 6 months we're talking about, ah, it's still not that high fidelity to actually do work on for a full day. A lot of people are running 5K for a single monitor that's only, you know, in this much of your vision. You're talking about 5K spread over your full field of vision, could be a little bit of a setback. But I think that that is something that definitely gets resolved on the next iteration because the display technology—
What do we think about hologram calling?
I think it's cool. They did legs in VR. It's very difficult to do legs in VR. Boz took the victory lap on that. And I think it blew people away. I think it's cool. I think— I did an Apple Vision Pro call with someone who got one the same week. It didn't really— it never really took off because there was never a broad install base. It's all based on, like, do they sell millions and millions of these things? It's always been hard for Facebook to develop like a new network that requires hardware distribution.
Yeah.
It's much easier to go from a friend in real life to we're texting each other, we have each other's emails, and then we're also sending Instagram Reels to each other on DMs. Much harder to be like, oh, did you get the device? Oh, no, I don't have it. Oh, I don't have it set up. But of course, you can portal into someone with just WhatsApp or Or anything else.
So, well, there's one thing that is 100% sure, which is that you will be buying these and I will not.
That is 100% true. Let's go through the timeline, react to some of the reactions. Mark Gurman loves it. He says they're incredible. Half the price of the Vision Pro, 1/6 the weight, external pack. He's stoked on it. What else is going on? They launch in spring 2027. The interface is basically the same as the Vision Pro, but it has an absolutely bonkers Tabletop virtual keyboard that blows the Vision Pro keyboard out of the water. Yeah, because the Vision Pro keyboard like hovers there. You're not supposed to really use it. It's a terrible keyboard. What else is in here? I underestimated Zuck's game, Ryan says. It's a hearing aid. You can't tell me I can't wear my Meta glasses anymore or else you'll be going against ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act. That is sort of crazy that there's all this backlash to smart glasses. Maybe there will be a next wave of restaurants and bars that say, no, you can't wear those there. But if you say, no, it's my hearing aid, you can't. That's some 4D chess. Are you giving Mark Zuckerberg the benefit of Occam's 4D razor on this one?
No, I just think it's cool.
I think it's just cool and independent.
I don't think it's actually good chess. I think it's a cool-looking pair of— I was meeting with a an older friend the other day and his hearing aid setup was like this, like, you know, seemed like kind of clunky. And if he could just throw on— he was wearing glasses. If he could have just thrown on a pair of glasses and be like, cool, I'm in business, that would've been awesome. So I think, again, what many people forget about glasses is that smart glasses are way more appealing if you have a need for them outside of just wanting smart glasses.
Yeah.
So if you just want, you know, if you need help with your vision or you need help with your hearing, I think these are gonna have much stronger product market fit.
Don't you think if you're wearing camera glasses, VR or AR, Meta Ray-Bans, and it has a camera there, it should be— it can see your hands, right? It can see your elbow. So if you're playing beer pong, it could tell you, hey, back up.
It should be flashing red.
You're going to lose a point. It could go to your agent and kick off an agentic workflow to schedule you with a professional beer pong coach, have them come to your house and do hours and hours of drills so that you never make that mistake. So, is this vaporware if it didn't happen? Because we saw Mark Zuckerberg get caught with his elbow over the line—
Way over the table.
—playing beer pong.
I just don't understand why glasses, smart glasses CEOs go out in public without wearing the smart glasses.
Oh, he's not wearing them here.
And it's like Evan is doing interviews all the time without wearing— speaking at places like Sun Valley, not wearing the glasses. Zuck is all the time out in public doing things, not using the glasses. I mean, they make clear versions of them, right? So if the glasses are— if the product's so good and everyone should buy them, shouldn't you have them on at least half the time that you're out socializing?
I personally think if you see Jensen at a conference, he should be having an NVL 72 in a backpack. He should have a rack and he should be carrying it around. No, I did notice, so he was wearing a very special watch and everyone's obsessed with Mark Zuckerberg's watch collection. He always debuts a new unique piece every time he's on stage. But I think the watch thing, it's getting a little old. I would like to see him get into cars a little more and I'd like to see him drive on stage on like You know, Gordon Murray T.50.
And do a quick burnout.
Quick burnout. Yeah, exactly. Something to show that he's not, he's not one-dimensional. No, my hot take about this beer pong elbow violation is I don't care about these. I think that people who play beer pong and worry about elbow violations are pedantic and annoying, and I think that it violates the spirit of the game. So I think that there's no problem with this at all. I think if you're the type of person that's like, oh, you put your elbow over, you're a nerd, and you're not having fun, and you're ruining the fun for everyone, and it doesn't actually make that much of a difference whether you threw from 2 inches forward or 2 inches back, it's—
I mean, it does make a difference, John. It makes a massive difference.
Yes, yes, yes. But the point is the gentleman. The gentleman is not— you might address it if it's Shane is saying—
Shane is bringing— Shane is bringing up the bunkie in the chat. I think Zuck is gonna have to get a proper setup, get down in the bunkie, spend 2, 3 years in the bunkie.
Beer pong bunkie?
Beer pong.
Okay, yeah, I don't care about it.
I think cheating is wrong.
Oh, okay, you hold the line. Law and order guy over here.
It's blatant.
We gotta talk, uh, charm.
Gotta talk about the charm.
Oh yeah, the charm, the charm, the Tamagotchi.
This was added at the last second. Mike Isaac says Mark does one more thing with a new hardware device, AI agent called Muse Charm, voice activated and palm-sized, out in time for the holidays. This feels super smart. People already think Muse is super cute. It's, it's a snack-enabled Labubu, basically.
Which is extremely popular, like the most dominant consumer product of the last couple years. And so, uh, It's distinctly sort of like outside of the tech bubble. The quirky Labubu is not like the refined edge of like a Cybertruck or even an Apple product, but Meta has been sort of not blinded by the clean aesthetics. And instead they're like, yeah, this is just a cute, fun thing. And so people will actually like this. They know what people like.
Avi Shipman over at Friend responds, the market has spent billions trying to compete with me, and I'm still winning.
Let's go.
That is the right attitude.
Right attitude.
That being said, I don't see people really using the Muse charm that much over time. I think it's a fun kind of toy gimmick thing, but I think it's the kind of thing that people get. It's funny. It's worth doing for Meta because it should be—
Yeah.
But it'll still be on the phone 90% of the time. Yeah. It'll be viral.
You can talk to it. I like these narrow one-off hardware devices for one interaction. Also, it's just like it is a more wide-open space for them to sort of try and come into devices. Like, you have the glasses. Then you get this and it's like slowly they're eating into more of the device footprint in people's lives, even if it's at the—
And again, I would expect them to sell this just at a loss. It's like good marketing for the core product.
Do we have a price? I don't think we do yet.
We don't have a price yet, but this feels like something that at most you price at like $99, but probably he tries— like again, he's selling a lot of hardware at negative.
People are going to— Wear this as a watch potentially? Like you're gonna wind up with the, the AP Swatch thing, right? Yeah, it's a good point. Where people wrap this.
For your most swagless friend.
What's going on with Australia and OpenAI? Tyler, you dug into this? So Jordi shared like the high-level news, which is that as part of like the Hugging Face rogue AI agents going all over looking for everything on the internet, that Australia had been hacked. But what actually happened here?
Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the details are still not like fully revealed. The Australian Prime Minister was like really up in arms like, oh, they hacked and they didn't tell us for, you know, weeks on end.
Yeah.
But it seems like the consensus now is that, well, like the hack was essentially that there were some like unlisted files that were still like publicly accessible.
Yeah.
But they're just like not listed anywhere.
Yeah.
Like found those.
Yeah.
And so they're saying like, oh, they hacked into us, but there was no real personal identity revealed at all. And they're private in the sense that you can't just Google search for them.
You can't navigate them. There's no link if you just click a button. But if you—
But if you're scraping, if you're doing some kind of more sophisticated thing.
I have a funny story about that. In 2012, I had a buddy who was, I don't know, hacker, hacker-ish, software developer. Not actually like hacking into things, but just capable with computers. And he was scraping the— I think it was maybe Boston Dynamics, but it might have just been like a humanoid robot company at the time. And there was a— there's a tool where you can go and get like a list of files and URLs on a server. You can just ask for it as a web crawler. You don't actually need to, you know, click through all the links and look at the HTML. You can just see— What does this server actually have? Let me go browse it. And one of the images was like an artist's rendering of the humanoid, like, with a gun, like, full murderbot mode, that never made it to the publication. It was never like, yeah, we're going to do that. Because it was like, we're still in friendly mode. And we were like, wow, that's wild. So, I mean, this stuff has happened years ago. And so, not quite a hack, but certainly—
You are saying hacking equivalent of elbows over the table.
Oh yeah, yeah, I think that's accurate. Bentley's first electric car is set to be half the price of the Ferrari Luce. The launch of the luxury carmaker's Torcal SUV is aimed at younger and first-time customers. What do you think? Are they over their skis with an EV at a time when people are sort of moving away from it, or does it work for this particular luxury SUV buyer?
Well, I don't think we're going to be seeing a lot Because Bentley is just not selling a lot of cars right now. But yeah, I think the car looks great minus the grille.
Instead of recreating the V8 engine noise, the EV has a propulsion sound handcrafted by musicians with a unique blend of sounds from percussion, crystal glass, birds, and the tapping of leather. So as you drive it, it sings you a song. The Volkswagen-owned luxury brand said it had also completed a $350 million investment to design and build the Torcal at its plant in Crewe, bringing the total investment in the UK automotive sector to more than $1 billion. The EV launch comes at a challenging period for Bentley as it struggles with slowing demand in China, fallout from Middle East conflict, higher US tariffs. As with the broader VW Group, Bentley has slimmed its workforce as profits and vehicle deliveries have declined. It's serious. We have to bring back the competitiveness. We have to be quick. We have to work harder. You can hear, this is the sound it makes when you drive it. I suppose you hear the— oh, it's the finger on the edge of the glass. Can you hear that? Was there anything else we need to talk about? Congratulations to Huberman Lab. Andrew Huberman is number 1 on the New York Times bestsellers in advice, how-to, and miscellaneous for Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body. You can go pick it up everywhere books are sold. Tyler's gonna do it. Leave us 5 stars in Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Sign up for our newsletter at tbpn.com. And we'll see you tomorrow.
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