The Sand Hill Hour https://sandhillhour.com/ Channel 940 News — a satirical tech-news broadcast from Sand Hill Road. Anchor, newsroom and network are fictional. en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Protesters march on Anthropic headquarters and demand to be taken seriously https://sandhillhour.com/articles/protesters-march-anthropic https://sandhillhour.com/articles/protesters-march-anthropic Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Hundreds march on OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind demanding a verifiable pause on frontier AI training. The demands on the table, and why no lab will put a pause in ink. Sam Mogman comes for King Dario with GPT-5.6 https://sandhillhour.com/articles/sam-mogman-gpt-5-6 https://sandhillhour.com/articles/sam-mogman-gpt-5-6 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT OpenAI drops GPT-5.6 and its flagship Sol beats Anthropic's Fable 5 on the independent coding leaderboard. What the benchmarks say, and where Fable 5 still wins. Elon Musk set to mog every billionaire for eternity with SpaceX IPO https://sandhillhour.com/articles/elon-spacex-ipo https://sandhillhour.com/articles/elon-spacex-ipo Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT SpaceX raises $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation in the biggest IPO ever, and Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire. The S-1 numbers tell a different story. Times Square gets a 40-foot Elon Musk balloon (somehow still less inflated than SpaceX's IPO) https://sandhillhour.com/articles/times-square-musk-balloon https://sandhillhour.com/articles/times-square-musk-balloon Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT A 40-foot inflatable Elon Musk lands in Times Square the day before SpaceX rings the Nasdaq bell. Who put it there? Start with the Grok receipts on its QR fliers. a16z launches TBPN — but with three letters, because three hours per day wasn't enough https://sandhillhour.com/articles/a16z-mts-launch https://sandhillhour.com/articles/a16z-mts-launch Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT a16z seeds MTS, a 24/7 live news network that runs entirely on X. The full lineup, plus why every big venture fund now builds its own media. OpenAI buys TBPN after internal study finds it cheaper to acquire a personality than to develop one https://sandhillhour.com/articles/openai-buys-tbpn https://sandhillhour.com/articles/openai-buys-tbpn Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT OpenAI buys TBPN for a reported low hundreds of millions — its first media acquisition. Deal terms, plus the reason the $30M-a-year ad business gets shut down entirely. OpenAI turns for-profit: a bold move for a company with no profits https://sandhillhour.com/articles/openai-for-profit https://sandhillhour.com/articles/openai-for-profit Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Sam Altman converts OpenAI into a for-profit. The nonprofit keeps control and 26%, Microsoft holds 27%, and the safety watchdog that polices OpenAI now gets paid in OpenAI stock. Sam Altman rizzes up Congress on the first date https://sandhillhour.com/articles/altman-congress-hearing https://sandhillhour.com/articles/altman-congress-hearing Tue, 16 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate AI and the senators love him for it. His licensing wishlist reads like a page from the regulatory-capture handbook. Jeff Bezos farms style points on Blue Origin's historic autonomous spaceflight https://sandhillhour.com/articles/bezos-blue-origin https://sandhillhour.com/articles/bezos-blue-origin Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:00:00 GMT Jeff Bezos rides Blue Origin's New Shepard to the edge of space on a fully autonomous flight with no pilot aboard. Why the flight software mattered more than the rocket.