{"id":"1792883263206-tech-segment","slug":"iran-warns-gulf-over-ai-partnerships","title":"Iran warns Gulf over AI partnerships","summary":"Iran's parliament speaker warned Gulf governments and investors to stop providing finance, equity, land, and energy to AI/data companies Iran accuses of aiding military attacks, and threatened \"enforcement.\" But he did not ban anything, and the companies named (Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI) come from an IRGC warning list published March 31 — not from his Sunday statement.","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T23:07:43.206Z","channel":{"id":"tech","name":"Oncast Tech","language":"en"},"show":"Tech Tonight","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"MISLEADING","notes":"MISLEADING: Iran's parliament speaker warned Gulf governments and investors to stop providing finance, equity, land, and energy to AI/data companies Iran accuses of aiding military attacks, and threatened \"enforcement.\" But he did not ban anything, and the companies named (Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI) come from an IRGC warning list published March 31 — not from his Sunday statement.\nSource: [iranintl.com](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202610181490) NAMES: IRGC = Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. (https://x.com/Abdes78money/status/2111973878834884725)","claims":[{"verdict":"MISLEADING","summary":"Iran's parliament speaker warned Gulf governments and investors to stop providing finance, equity, land, and energy to AI/data companies Iran accuses of aiding military attacks, and threatened \"enforcement.\" But he did not ban anything, and the companies named (Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI) come from an IRGC warning list published March 31 — not from his Sunday statement.","sourceName":"[iranintl.com](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202610181490) NAMES: IRGC = Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/Abdes78money/status/2111973878834884725","claim":"Iran has now issued a deadly warning to the Middle East. Iran will no longer allow the UAE and other Gulf countries to assist Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI, or other AI and data companies. Any financial, land or energy resources provided to AI and data companies will","author":"Satoshi ₿ Macro & Crypto (@Abdes78money)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/Abdes78money/status/2111973878834884725","name":"[iranintl.com](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202610181490) NAMES: IRGC = Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.","kind":"x","verdict":"MISLEADING","author":"Satoshi ₿ Macro & Crypto (@Abdes78money)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792883263206-tech-segment-iran-warns-gulf-over-ai-partnerships","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/tech","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792883263206-tech-segment-iran-warns-gulf-over-ai-partnerships","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792883263206-tech-segment-iran-warns-gulf-over-ai-partnerships and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Matilda","text":"Switching to Washington and money: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia all reportedly posted record lobbying quarters."},{"host":"Chris","text":"A Tesla fan account on X is claiming Nvidia spent two point two million, Anthropic two point one, OpenAI one point five — just July through September."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I checked. No federal disclosures on those exact numbers yet. Still, these companies have all been ramping up Washington presence for years."},{"host":"Chris","text":"And no surprise. AI policy is the next big battleground: export controls, copyright, safety regulations."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Microsoft already reportedly spends over two million a quarter. Google similar. The whole industry is trying to shape the rules before the rules get written."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I'd rather they spend it on compute and engineers than lobbyists. But when the government is writing rules that could kill your product, you show up."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Fair. They're under pressure from every direction."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Different world entirely: over on Hacker News, a developer named Lukas Werner built a VGA graphics driver from scratch in SystemVerilog."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"SystemVerilog? That's normally for chip design, not old-school display drivers."},{"host":"Chris","text":"He posted a full write-up. One commenter said it made him miss the character-based text modes and hardware cursors of old VGA cards."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"It's a nostalgia trip for people who remember garbage collecting in mode 13h."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Mode 13h. You're dating yourself."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I'm just saying, that era taught people to care about every single clock cycle."},{"host":"Chris","text":"And that's the beautiful thing about this project: it's not useful as a product. It's useful as an education in how hardware actually talks to software."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Speaking of ambition, another Hacker News thread links to an essay by Dan Luu arguing we should build more ambitious software."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I read that. His point is we've spent a decade optimizing the same CRUD apps while the hard problems sit untouched."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"So what does he want? More people reinventing WordPerfect?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"More people building tools that actually change how we work, not just moving buttons around. Spreadsheets, databases, CAD, compilers — the unglamorous stuff."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"But the market pays for small, safe improvements. Nobody's funding a new operating system without a business model."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's exactly his point. We've optimized for the business model, not the breakthrough."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I half agree. Some of the most ambitious software today is open source and badly underfunded, and it runs the entire internet."},{"host":"Chris","text":"And then companies with millions of users build on it and donate a coffee mug."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Which is probably why one Hacker News commenter is pushing Argus, a free open-source security operations platform."},{"host":"Chris","text":"MIT licensed, agentic, security operations. It's the kind of thing a thousand startups are trying to sell for six figures a year."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Open source security tooling is having a moment — CrowdStrike's gaffe last year made a lot of teams look for options they can actually inspect."},{"host":"Chris","text":"And agentic is the magic word. Give it the ability to act, not just alert, and you've got something genuinely different."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"As long as the agent doesn't decide to delete prod during an investigation. That's my fear with all of these."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's what the MIT license is for. You can read exactly how it's going to delete prod."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"One more from Hacker News: an article about small programs and languages, and why they still matter."},{"host":"Chris","text":"The argument is that Go and Rust and all the modern toolchains have made binaries enormous, and we've forgotten the joy of a tight little program."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Counterpoint: the tight little program can't handle Unicode, streaming video, or real-time collaboration."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Correct. But not every program needs all that. A pastebin with a web framework and a million dependencies? That's absurd."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"We do have a complexity problem. Some of these 'small language' projects are really about reclaiming predictability in a world of moving parts."},{"host":"Chris","text":"The old Unix philosophy: do one thing well, and let the user pipe the rest."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Until your one thing has a CVE in its JSON parser and you're patching a museum."},{"host":"Chris","text":"You just can't let us have the nostalgia."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Nostalgia's fine. I just prefer my nostalgia documented, like that VGA driver, not running production."}]}