Podcast 5-5 by Dongee · November 2, 2026
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Today: Elon Musk admits Grok Bot was too expensive to run, OpenAI renames its data centers, South Korea puts AI at the center of its budget, a Lenovo “encrypted” USB drive that wasn't, and the Trigger.dev hack.
The 5 stories
- Elon Musk admitted on X that running Grok Bot, the xAI agent, had an unsustainably high cost compared to what it brings in, after customers complained about hitting their weekly limit early.
- OpenAI wants to call its data centers “AI compute campuses,” Axios reported, as part of a political push with deals with communities; Chris Lehane, its head of global affairs, says communities should hold companies accountable.
- South Korea presented the biggest budget in its history, with AI at the center: President Lee Jae-myung set aside about sixteen billion dollars for chips, AI robots and data centers, almost double this year.
- A Lenovo USB drive with a fingerprint reader, sold as encrypted, turned out to be a plain memory card with no encryption; the same researcher used Codex, OpenAI's coding AI, against other “secure” drives, and one protection fell in about seven minutes.
- Trigger.dev, a platform for running automated tasks and AI agents, confirmed that an attacker accessed the environment variables of a group of customers, where many companies keep keys and passwords.