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SK Hynix Lands Trillion-Dollar IPO

South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix made its NASDAQ debut with a $26.5 billion raise, the largest ever first-time US share sale by a foreign company. Demand exceeded available shares by sevenfold, though the stock popped just 14% from its $149 offer price to open at $170, giving SK Hynix a roughly $1.03 trillion market cap. The company joins the trillion-dollar club as a critical supplier of high bandwidth memory for AI accelerators, with its Korean-listed shares already up over 600% in the past year.

GPT-5.6 Demos Go Viral

Users are already pushing GPT-5.6 to creative extremes, including a full Interstellar recreation that would likely horrify Christopher Nolan. The hosts note that simply recreating existing films is just a tech demo, but combining tools like Blender puppetry with AI style transfer could yield genuinely novel content. One demo showed the model building a 3D cannon in Blender at roughly 750 tokens per second, showcasing the raw speed of the new Ultra model on fast mode.

Desktop App Sparks User Backlash

OpenAI unified ChatGPT and Codex into a single desktop app, but users are pushing back because the new version is built in Electron rather than native code. The old Mac app had beloved integrations and shortcuts that are now harder to access. OpenAI's Tibo acknowledged the feedback, admitting they made it too easy to burn through high-compute settings without clear usage limit warnings, and said limits would reset twice to let users keep experimenting.

Meta's AI Strategy Under the Microscope

A Semi Analysis piece argues Meta is the only hyperscaler on track to be world-class across data, talent, and compute, giving it the best shot at catching Anthropic and OpenAI. The report highlights Meta's move to assign 3,000 engineers, including 70% of new grads, to reinforcement learning tasks full-time. The hosts note that Zuck's AI spending is partly about escaping Apple's platform tax and building the next computing platform through smart glasses.

Phia Gate Erupts

Phoebe Gates's shopping app Phia is accused in a Bloomberg investigation of injecting its own referral codes during checkout without user interaction, potentially overriding legitimate affiliate attribution. The report claims Phia opened background tabs and inserted its codes silently, which could be more aggressive than the Honey scandal. The hosts estimate around $1 million in commissions may be affected across 6 months, with users on social media eager to see the startup struggle.

Horror Memes Become Hollywood Gold

Studios are racing to acquire internet-born horror IP, with Warner Brothers paying over $1 million for Siren Head movie rights. The creator, Trevor Henderson, had never profited from his 8-year-old monster illustration despite it spawning YouTube films, merchandise, and games. Amazon and Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment paid millions for The Mandela Catalog, letting its 22-year-old creator direct. Studios now scour YouTube, Reddit, and Roblox for the next Backrooms-style hit.