Aug 3, 2026 · 2 hr 8 min · 10 segments
The lads are back after a break for Iain’s summer holiday in Slovakia. After some opening tangents on the country, they get into a review of recent news coming from Nokia regarding AI RAN. The broader…
Ian MorrisHost
Scott BichenoHostPierrePanelist
So you've been away for a little while, but you've sort of, you know, it looks like you wrote some stuff in advance or maybe you were naughty and writing on holiday.
And I saw from just clicking on your byline that, as I would expect of you, you've...
You've gone large on Nokia's come up with another round of announcements to do with Iran, which to remind anyone to whom it's not obvious, their commitment to Iran was very much cemented by Nvidia chucking a billion bucks last year.
so they're all in on that and that's fine it doesn't mean that it's not a good idea but it does mean that it's the onus is on them to sort of cheerlead it
and and um and articulate the case for it and so you've looked into that quite a lot so i think we're gonna go we'll go big on that we might mention their quarterlies which were just about a week or so ago as
and then i i've been going big i'm almost tempted Perhaps just to antagonize you, Ian, to come up with a semi-regular segment on the pod called AI Dystopia Corner.
You know, some pods have more structure where they have little bits that they commit to every week.
Some of it has just been straight reporting on stuff where... where just the news itself does all the dystopian heavy lifting for me so i think and it's always fun to chat about that stuff anyway so i think we'll do that and then um
there is a bit yeah actually yeah and i think you recently wrote about um ai related job cuts in telecom so
So you've been away for a little while, but you've sort of, you know, it looks like you wrote some stuff in advance or maybe you were naughty and writing on holiday.
And I saw from just clicking on your byline that, as I would expect of you, you've...
You've gone large on Nokia's come up with another round of announcements to do with Iran, which to remind anyone to whom it's not obvious, their commitment to Iran was very much cemented by Nvidia chucking a billion bucks last year.
so they're all in on that and that's fine it doesn't mean that it's not a good idea but it does mean that it's the onus is on them to sort of cheerlead it
and and um and articulate the case for it and so you've looked into that quite a lot so i think we're gonna go we'll go big on that we might mention their quarterlies which were just about a week or so ago as
and then i i've been going big i'm almost tempted Perhaps just to antagonize you, Ian, to come up with a semi-regular segment on the pod called AI Dystopia Corner.
You know, some pods have more structure where they have little bits that they commit to every week.
Some of it has just been straight reporting on stuff where... where just the news itself does all the dystopian heavy lifting for me so i think and it's always fun to chat about that stuff anyway so i think we'll do that and then um
there is a bit yeah actually yeah and i think you recently wrote about um ai related job cuts in telecom so
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