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Short Fuse

Short Fuse

By: Short Fuse
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Technology and socio-economic big bets

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Episodes
  • Cursor Bought, Social Media Ban, Google's Chips

    Cursor Bought, Social Media Ban, Google's Chips
    Jun 20 2026
    This week on Short Fuse News, Duncan and Ollie tackle SpaceX buying Cursor, the UK’s looming social media ban, and Google deciding it might quite like to sell chips after all. Expect AI wrappers, Jensen jail, tech bros building tents full of servers, and the usual disciplined attempt to stay on topic.

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    39 mins
  • IPOs, Fable 5

    IPOs, Fable 5
    Jun 15 2026

    The US government has told Anthropic that Fable is off-limits to anyone who isn't American. Is it genuinely too dangerous, or the best marketing stunt since a deodorant advert convinced a generation of boys they'd be chased down the street? Duncan and Ollie work through it via Occam's razor, Aesop, and what the name "Fable" might have been trying to tell us all along.

    Then SpaceX floats, goes up thirty percent, and starts selling the idea that your data centre belongs in orbit. We get into why cooling a computer in space is harder than anyone admits, why mining asteroids still doesn't add up, and why every tech IPO on earth is suddenly happening at once.

    Bubble or business? You decide.

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    41 mins
  • Backpeddling! Pope! Quantum!

    Backpeddling! Pope! Quantum!
    May 29 2026
    Sam Altman woke up, put on his red velour dressing gown, and decided your job is safe after all. Duncan and Ollie get into the great AI climbdown, the Pope's beef with the machines, and the growing public urge to take a hammer to a data centre.

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    31 mins
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