PowerBites by Julio Zelaya

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May 2026

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"PowerBites: Business, Ed & Tech" delivers daily, strategic insights into business, tech, and education, curated by Julio Zelaya for visionary professionals. Subscribe to lead and leverage the most innovative trends.

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May 1, 2026Episode 16411 min

Power Bites - May 1, 2026

This week, AI stopped being a story of infinite growth and became a story of budgets. OpenAI's own CFO told her team, in private, that the company may not be able to pay for the servers Sam Altman wants to contract. That same day, Google Cloud reported more than $460 billion in signed AI contracts, and Microsoft built — in three years — an AI business the size of what took Salesforce twenty-five. Those, and six more stories that just shifted the conversation, I broke down in PowerBites: newsletter in Spanish on Mondays and in English on Fridays here on LinkedIn, and podcast in both languages on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the rest. Listen to it before your next investment meeting. It will change the questions you ask.

April 24, 2026Episode 16311 min

Power Bites - April 24, 2026

On April 7, the Treasury Secretary, the Fed Chair, and central bankers in London and Frankfurt held emergency meetings over a single AI model. The same day, one company overtook the decade's reigning AI leader in revenue. Eight days later, another company laid off a thousand people — and Wall Street rewarded it with two billion dollars in market cap before lunch. Three scenes. Three industries. One pattern: The Great Bifurcation. AI is splitting the world in two in real time, and which side your company lands on is being decided this quarter, in the budgets you're signing right now. Today's PowerBites episode breaks down the ten stories behind that split — PwC, Goldman Sachs, BCG, the World Bank, on the record. Newsletter: Mondays in Spanish, Fridays in English, here on LinkedIn. Podcast: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the major platforms, both languages. Read it before your next meeting. After will be too late.

April 17, 2026Episode 16211 min

Power Bites - April 17, 2026

This week something unusual happened: a company built the most powerful cyber-capable AI ever created, and instead of selling it to the world, they locked it up and handed the key to the defenders first. At the same time, another model quietly solved a math problem that had resisted human genius for sixty years, and a lab in Chicago printed an artificial neuron that made a living brain cell respond. In this week's Power Bites, I unpack what it all means for leaders, why your cybersecurity review cycle is already obsolete, and the one question you should ask your team on Monday morning. Read the full English edition here on LinkedIn every Friday, and the Spanish edition every Monday. Prefer to listen? Power Bites is also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms, in both languages. The future is already in the room — the only question is whether you are building with it, defending against it, or pretending it is not there.

April 10, 2026Episode 16110 min

Power Bites - April 10, 2026

This week, AI labs started saying something they've never said before: "This model is too powerful to release." Anthropic hit $30B in revenue in record time, OpenAI is projecting $100B in ad revenue by 2030, Meta is forcibly reassigning its best engineers, and state-sponsored hackers are warning that no ceasefire will stop them. I break it all down in this week's PowerBites — what it means for your business, three things you should do Monday morning, and why decisive moments aren't found, they're designed. 🎧 PowerBites is available as a podcast in English and Spanish on all major streaming platforms, and as a weekly newsletter on LinkedIn — Mondays in Spanish, Fridays in English. Don't miss this one.

April 3, 2026Episode 16011 min

PowerBites — Easter Week Edition

Five things happened in AI this week that look like separate headlines but tell one story: Sanders and AOC proposed freezing all data center construction in America, Meta 6x'd its El Paso bet to $10 billion (and brought running water to 100 homes that never had it), Microsoft claimed a 2.1-gigawatt campus in Abilene rising from land where coyotes used to roam, the White House released its national AI framework in four pages, and the U.S. Treasury declared that NOT adopting AI is now a risk to national economic security. I unpack all of it in this week's Easter edition of PowerBites — available now as a newsletter on LinkedIn (español los lunes, English on Fridays) and as a podcast in both languages on all major streaming platforms. This week's question: Are you building something that counts the cost, or are you just building fast?

March 27, 2026Episode 15810 min

Power Bites - March 27, 2026

This week, AI didn't slow down — it hit every wall at once. A jury in California just ruled that social media design can cause personal injury (think Big Tobacco, but for infinite scroll). OpenAI killed two products in seven days, including a chatbot feature one advisor called a "sexy suicide coach." Memory chip prices surged 90% in a single quarter. And while Musk lost his tenth cofounder, Apple quietly secured the keys to Google's most powerful AI model. I break it all down in this week's PowerBites — the walls aren't endings, they're redirections. PowerBites is available as a weekly newsletter in Spanish on Mondays and English on Fridays on LinkedIn, and as a podcast in both languages on all major streaming platforms.

March 20, 2026Episode 15710 min

Power Bites - March 20, 2026

80,508 people. 159 countries. 70 languages. One question: what do you actually want from AI? Anthropic just published what may be the largest qualitative study ever conducted — and the answers will challenge everything you think you know about who's optimistic, who's terrified, and why the same person is usually both. This week on PowerBites I break down the five tensions every business leader needs to understand, why a butcher in Chile and a mute developer in Ukraine are rewriting the rules of opportunity, and the one data point that should keep every educator up at night. PowerBites is available as a newsletter in Spanish every Monday and in English every Friday right here on LinkedIn, and as a podcast in both languages on all major streaming platforms. Don't just scroll past this one.

March 13, 2026Episode 15611 min

Power Bites - March 13, 2026

This week, an AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours flat — no credentials, no insider access — exposing 46.5 million messages. That same week, Elon Musk launched a project called "Macrohard" (yes, really), Anthropic sued the Pentagon, humanoid robots arrived in Ukraine, and Uber signed two robotaxi deals in 72 hours. If you feel like the world shifted while you were in a meeting… it did. I break it all down in this week's PowerBites — what happened, what it means for your business, and what to do about it before Monday. Read the full newsletter here on LinkedIn every Monday in Spanish and every Friday in English, or catch the podcast episode in both languages on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major streaming platforms. The future doesn't wait. Neither should you. 🔥

March 6, 2026Episode 15511 min

Power Bites - March 6, 2026

Iranian drones just knocked out 30% of the world's helium supply — and three AWS data centers. GPT-5.4 launched with native computer-use capabilities. A physics team used AI to prove a quantum gravity result that was assumed impossible for decades. BYD unveiled a battery that charges to 97% in nine minutes. And Deloitte found that only 6% of leaders are redesigning work for AI — while the ones who do are 2.4x more likely to see better financial results. This week's PowerBites connects the dots: the physical world is fracturing, the digital world is accelerating, and the gap between the two is the defining story of 2026. Read the full breakdown in Friday's English edition of the PowerBites newsletter right here on LinkedIn. And if you prefer Spanish, catch the Monday edition. Either way, the podcast version drops in both languages on all major streaming platforms. The future satisfies the prepared — not the surprised.

February 27, 2026Episode 15410 min

Power Bites - February 27, 2026

A baby is walking today because of AI. A hacker stole 150 gigabytes from a government using the exact same technology. Wall Street hit record highs. An OpenAI engineer quit, calling his burnout "scary and dangerous." And a leaked Anthropic memo reveals they're deeply worried about the very AI agents they're racing to deploy. This was all one week. In this Friday's edition of PowerBites, I break down the seven stories that summarized the entire AI era — and what they mean for your business, your strategy, and your sense of reality. PowerBites drops every Monday in Spanish and every Friday in English on LinkedIn, and you can catch the podcast in both languages on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major streaming platforms.

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