Welcome to globalGlob Presents: Log Level Debug a show about news, and stuff, and things, in the technology world. Recorded live, Monday July 20th, 2026. And I...might be Polish?....No, I'm not. Before we start, we want to remind you to visit globalGlob.dev for the latest news in software development, I.T., and technology in general. Now let's get into all the news we logged over the past week. With links in the show notes. And I want to apologize now, because it's ALL A.I. news. You have no idea how much I try each week to minimize the A.I. news. *sign* Just couldn't avoid it this week. The biggest news of the past week is that OpenAI has announced their first ever hardware product. An incredibly expensive, macro keyboard. The purpose of the device is to control A.I. Agents and provide feedback on their status with a colored light. Unlike most keyboards, this one has knobs. Which comes in handy when you would rather spin a knob than press a button. The device is already out of stock, and costs $230. Which, as you may NOT know, is very expensive for such a small keyboard. A spokesperson from OpenAI blames A.I. datacenter companies for the exorbitant price tag because they're the ones driving up component costs. Without them, the device would only cost $80. Plus the requisite $140 markup. This week Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, wrote a blog post saying companies pay for A.I. twice. Once with money, and again with something more valuable. No, not gold doubloons, or diamonds, or credits...but proprietary knowledge. And if they can figure out how, Microsoft would love to make you pay thrice. And god willing, quice...quartz?...4 times. They'd like it if you paid 4 times. The blog post says enterprises are supplying A.I. training material to models by supplying internal company information that's needed just to answer their prompt. Adding that, what you create, should belong to you. And what CoPilot creates, belongs to Microsoft....probably. *smiling, impressed* Also, can we take a minute to talk about Satya Nadella. Writing a blog post. He's just like us. Probably had the idea a year ago, didn't have the time. It kept bothering him that he hasn't done it yet. Finally sat down last week and knocked it out in 10 minutes....What a guy. A rural school in New York bought a robot to work as a teacher's assistant. The female robot, *sigh* because of course it's female, is named Sally and just loves it when you play Wonderwall at her on your guitar. The robot will cost the school nearly $60,000, but that's after a $35,000 discount because, come on, no one thinks it'll actually help any students. *points to image* Lastly, if you looked at that robot and thought, "Hmmmm, I've seen that before." *Image: robotix-sex-robot.png* Maybe clear your browser history every so often. *pause* SpaceX A.I.'s Grok...Or X's Grok? Wait, SpaceX A.I.? Okay, oh god, uhhh, we need to talk about this don't we? Okay, so, SpaceX is a somewhat-successful rocket company that makes a lot of its money from government handouts. And because it's so successful, Elon Musk keeps making his less successful companies subsidiaries of SpaceX. So now, SpaceX is the parent company SpaceXAI, the company that makes Grok. And SpaceXAI is the parent company of X Corp, which makes X formerly Twitter. And X Corp, aka Twitter, started the A.I. Agent Grok, before Grok was pulled out to be Twitter's own parent company...SpaceXAI. *breathes* Man, it's like it's confusing on purpose. Anyway, Grok Build, a CLI tool from that cluster F of a company we just talked about, has been uploading the entire codebase of its users to Grok's servers. Including files it was told not to read. PLUS, secrets deleted from history. It's off now--*smirk* I guess because people found out about it. The amount of data uploaded was called excessive by some. And quote: "totally necessary to steal everyone's data" by others...by Musk. IBM's stock price dropped 23% after warning its Q2 income will be below expectations. The company says many of their largest customers are spending more on physical infrastructure, like servers, which have seen huge price increases due to the amount of A.I. infrastructure being built by everyone. The increased costs are eating into budgets, stopping them from buying IBM consulting services. Which is exactly what I would say if I didn't want to buy IBM consulting services anymore. Hey, yeah, sorry. Ummm, nothing left in the budget. We totally want to renew, but-we-can't. Oh well. Maybe next year! And that's all the news that happened this week. If we didn't talk about it, it's not in the logs. Join Log Level Debug next week when we'll talk about everything that happened between now and then. If you enjoyed the show, tell your friends. And if you didn't, tell your enemies. 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