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A cloud messenger and channel platform created by Pavel Durov. In ToTheMoon: 48 episodes from 2024 to 2026, central in 4 of them; most often alongside AI models and assistants and Work, careers, and productivity.

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Telegram in ToTheMoon episodes

On ToTheMoon, Telegram travels from news item to working tool. In 2024 it is a company argued over because of its founder's arrest and its losses; in 2025 a platform someone is trying to plug an outside model into; by 2026 the channel through which the hosts run bots and alerts in their own AI systems. The underlying question stays the same: what in Telegram can be trusted — encryption, numbers, or promised integrations.

Pavel Durov's arrest in France turned the messenger into a matter of jurisdiction in episode 021: the state treats Telegram as a service accountable for what happens inside it, while users saw it as a space almost outside the state. Episode 022 moved to the economics: a loss of hundreds of millions a year and the question of who carries the risk. In 2025 the channel followed Grok, from its integration for premium subscribers (episode 052) to the exchange between Durov and Musk, which episode 060 called not a deal until data, money, moderation and jurisdiction were settled.

Encryption keeps coming back. Episode 086 reminded that ordinary Telegram chats are not encrypted by default, and episode 106, discussing Durov's attack on WhatsApp, asked why he was talking about backup encryption when only secret chats are end-to-end encrypted. In 2026 Telegram mostly appears inside Alexander Volchek's own builds: login through a bot (episode 110), lead scoring (episode 128), and financial monitoring with no dashboard, where a report is a sentence typed into Telegram (episode 155). Episode 100 kept the caveat that automation had turned Telegram into a swamp of comments.

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How to Use AI Without Losing Money: Build the Knowledge Base First, Then Score People and LeadsMarkets, investment, and business models AI Search, Grok in Telegram, and Stargate: The Market Is Forming Around a New IntermediaryAI models and assistants Telegram, OpenAI, and the Market for Trust: Why Polished Numbers Can No Longer Be Taken at Face ValueMarkets, investment, and business models Pavel Durov's Arrest Turned Telegram From an App Into a Political QuestionLaw, policy, and regulation

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128 · 2026-07-01How to Use AI Without Losing Money: Build the Knowledge Base First, Then Score People and Leadscentral 060 · 2025-06-01AI Search, Grok in Telegram, and Stargate: The Market Is Forming Around a New Intermediarycentral 022 · 2024-09-08Telegram, OpenAI, and the Market for Trust: Why Polished Numbers Can No Longer Be Taken at Face Valuecentral 021 · 2024-08-27Pavel Durov's Arrest Turned Telegram From an App Into a Political Questioncentral 110 · 2026-05-17AI Is Already Choosing for You: Price, Fear, and Previous Prompts Turn Advice Into Personalized Manipulationanalysis 106 · 2026-04-19Durov’s WhatsApp Dispute, a New ChatGPT Pro, and Layoffs Show That AI Has Become Part of Corporate Poweranalysis 100 · 2026-03-08OpenClaw Gains Access to Your Computer: An Agent’s Utility Grows in Exact Proportion to the Possible Leakanalysis 052 · 2025-04-06A “Think” Button Does Not Make a Model Conscious—It Shows the Cost of a Long Taskanalysis 155 · 2026-08-26Is the era of apps ending? How AI is already replacing everyday softwareanalysis 135 · 2026-07-17Which Software Will Become Unnecessary? ChatGPT and Claude Are Already Building Itcontext 136 · 2026-07-19ChatGPT or Claude: Which System Will Become the Main Interface for Work and Life?context 126 · 2026-06-2680% of Investment Went to OpenAI and Anthropic: The Market Looks Broad, but the Center of the New Economy Is Already Very Narrowcontext 120 · 2026-06-12AI Has Started Building Itself: Development Speeds Up, and the Main Human Skill Shifts to Choosing the Directioncontext 107 · 2026-04-26AI Agents Change Work Not by Replacing an Employee, but by Rewriting the Process Itselfcontext 089 · 2025-12-21GPT-5.2 Became One More Version in an Endless Stream: Users Need a Stable Product More Than a New Numbercontext 086 · 2025-11-30Mission Genesis Turns AI Into a Government Project Where Electricity Is the Main Resourcecontext 070 · 2025-08-10GPT-5 Became Easier to Use, but the Main Progress Is Not One Benchmark—It Is How the Model Handles a Taskcontext 064 · 2025-06-29The New York Times Lawsuit Shows How Much Data AI Retains—and How Little Control the User Hascontext 062 · 2025-06-15ChatGPT at $20 and $200: An Expensive Subscription Does Not Solve the Model-Choice Problemcontext 050 · 2025-03-23Chinese Models Are Advancing Through Freedom of Choice, Not the Quality of a Single Answercontext 042 · 2025-01-26The $500 Billion Stargate: AI Is Becoming a National Industrial Programcontext 040 · 2025-01-12Twelve AI Trends Reduce to One: The Technology Is Becoming Infrastructurecontext 038 · 2024-12-29AI Learned to Reason—and Learned to Hide What Happens Inside More Effectively at the Same Timecontext 036 · 2024-12-15$200 ChatGPT Is Not a Luxury if the Model Actually Replaces Expensive Workcontext 175 · 2026-10-04I Was at OpenAI DevDay 2026. Here's What OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Intobrief 174 · 2026-10-0210 Key AI Trends You Can't Afford to Miss: What to Learn and What Not to Waste Time on in the Age of AIbrief 173 · 2026-09-30How to Get the Most Out of AI in 2026: 10 Key Rules for Work and Lifebrief 170 · 2026-09-25Claude Opus 5.5 Is Out. Is It Even Worth Switching to New Models?brief 123 · 2026-06-17Should AI Have Rights? Anthropic's Secret Document Opened Pandora's Boxbrief 113 · 2026-05-27OpenAI Is Changing Work: Why Wait for IT When Codex Builds Your Software? A Breakdown of Codexbrief 118 · 2026-06-07What Will Happen to Our Access to ChatGPT and Claude After Their IPOs. The Main AI Newsbrief 114 · 2026-05-29AI Safety: What You Can Trust AI with and What You Can't. The 5 Levels of Your Data and Where the Line Runsbrief 162 · 2026-09-09GPT-6 Astra — A New Leap for AI? Where It Has Become 2–3 Times Strongerbrief 159 · 2026-09-02How Do You Earn More With AI When the Competition Only Grows?brief 147 · 2026-08-09Apple Sues OpenAI, Meta Challenges Codex: What Is Happening in the AI Race Right Nowbrief 142 · 2026-07-31AI Makes You More Efficient. Where Does Assistance End and a Violation Begin?brief 141 · 2026-07-29Censorship Inside AI? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Tested for Freedom of Speechbrief 152 · 2026-08-19Zuckerberg Promises an AI That Will Know Everything About You. Why Does Meta Want That?brief 133 · 2026-07-12The Problem With New AI Models Is No Longer Power, but the Person Who Has to Make Sense of Them Allbrief 132 · 2026-07-10AI Is Accelerating Its Own Development: AGI Will Come Not From One Breakthrough, but From a Loop in Which Each Model Helps Build the Nextbrief 121 · 2026-06-14Claude Fable 5 Showed a New Level of Work—and How Strategic a Model Has Becomebrief 104 · 2026-04-05Google Offers to Move Chats Out of ChatGPT: Memory Is Becoming the Main Way to Keep a Userbrief 097 · 2026-02-15AI Agents Are Becoming a Systemic Force: One Error Now Travels Through Code, Money, and the Physical Worldbrief 082 · 2025-11-02A Trillion-Dollar OpenAI, a Social-Media Ban for Children, and a Home Robot: One Market Is Selling the Promise Before the Productbrief 065 · 2025-07-06Waymo Already Looks Like Transportation, Tesla Like a Bet on Scale, and Meta Is Buying People at Company-Level Pricesbrief 061 · 2025-06-08There Is No Single Strongest Model: ChatGPT Has to Be Chosen Again for Every Taskbrief 027 · 2024-10-13Regulating AI Before We Understand AGI: Why California Backed Away From SB 1047brief 007 · 2024-05-26Why ChatGPT Is ‘Getting Dumber,’ Apple Is Moving Slowly on AI, and Our Data Is the Most Fragile Part of the Systembrief

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