Best Ade & Aaron Podcasts (2025)

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OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives? 59:02

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Nvidia invests $100 billion in OpenAI 2) Will the money ever get there? 3) Do AI companies have to make money eventually? 4) What has to happen for OpenAI to return NVIDIA's investment? 5) Is another financial crisis coming? 6) OpenAI's new Pulse feature…

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Is Generative AI a Cybersecurity Disaster Waiting to Happen? — With Yinon Costica 1:01:59

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Yinon Costica is the co-founder and VP of product at Wiz, which sold to Google for $32 billion in cash. Costica joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the extent of the cybersecurity threats that generative AI is creating, from vulnerabilities in AI software to the risks involved in “vibe coding.” Tune in to hear how attackers are using AI, why de…

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Cats (The One With Taylor Swift and Digital Fur) 50:17

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This week on The Worst Movie Podcast, Ade and Aaron curl up with one of the most infamous musicals-to-movie adaptations of all time: Cats (2019). With its star-studded cast—Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, James Corden, and more—it’s a film that aimed for spectacle and landed somewhere between surreal fever dream…

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How We Use ChatGPT, Meta’s New AI Glasses, Can Jimmy Kimmel Be Canceled? 55:22

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI tells us how people use ChatGPT 2) Practical guidance is the top use of ChatGPT 3) Is generative AI actually a threat to search given the use cases? 4) OpenAI has a very broad definition of 'doing' or agent work 5) The hidden impact of AI 'decisio…

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Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie 46:23

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Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box. Levie joins Big Technology to discuss the reports that a vast majority of businesses are not getting a return on their AI investments. Levie shares his takeaways from the reports, gives a rebuttal, and discusses the reality on the ground. Stay tuned for the second half where we separate hype from reality in the AI age…

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Madame Web (The One Where Dakota Johnson’s Mom Was in the Amazon Researching Spiders) 1:01:27

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This week, Ade and Aaron tangle themselves in Sony’s spidery mess of a movie: Madame Web (2024). With Dakota Johnson staring blankly through most of her lines, this movie is less a superhero flick and more a PSA about why you shouldn’t let IP law write your scripts. From jungle spider cults in Peru to clairvoyant CPR lessons in New York, the guys t…

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Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture 54:53

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Apple's impressive new iPhone Pro models 2) Who is the iPhone Air for? 3) Has the phone reached its ultimate form factor 4) Is generative AI threatening to upend the smartphone market 5) Meta's new smartglasses are coming 6) Nepal's Gen Z overthrows the …

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Booz Allen CTO: Can AI Fix The Government — With Bill Vass 1:07:42

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Bill Vass is the Chief Technology Officer of Booz Allen. Vass joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how governments can harness AI to cut redundancy and deliver better citizen services. Tune in to hear his inside view on LLM deployments from the VA to the International Space Station and the difficulty of modernizing mass bureaucracies. We also co…

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Morbius (The One Where Jared Leto Talks to Vampire Bats) 46:26

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This week Ade and Aaron sink their teeth into the modern cinematic disaster that is Morbius (2022). Jared Leto broods, Matt Smith struts in pinstripes, Tyrese Gibson pretends to be an FBI agent, and a colony of CGI bats work overtime. Along the way, Ade and Aaron learn important scientific lessons about human DNA, and discover that parts can double…

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Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest 56:25

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Google's Gemini may power Siri 2) Google gets to keep Chrome and Android 3) Google can keep paying Apple for distribution 4) Is generative AI enough rationale to allow the market to decide Google's fate? 5) Google's Nano Banana image creator goes viral 6…

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Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Movement, Coma, Depression, AI Merge 1:13:42

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Dr. Ben Rapoport and Michael Mager are the co-founders of Precision Neuroscience, a company building a minimally invasive, high-resolution brain-computer interface. The two join Big Technology to discuss the modern day applications of BCIs and frontiers of the technology, including computer control, stroke rehab, decoding consciousness in coma pati…

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War of the Worlds (The One With Ice Cube and Amazon Prime) 1:00:12

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In our first episode, Ade and Aaron take on War of the Worlds (2025) — the Ice Cube–starring, Amazon-Prime–streaming, alien-data-sucking spectacle no one asked for but everyone is hate-watching. Ice Cube stars as an NSA analyst who spends more time spying on his kids’ fridges than saving the world, while Eva Longoria watches the weather. The aliens…

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Did OpenAI Break ChatGPT?, Apple’s New iPhones, Saving Intel 59:27

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M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology podcast for the latest of our monthly discussions about Big Tech strategy and AI. Today we cover whether OpenAI broke ChatGPT with its GPT-5 rollout and whether new AI models are similar to typical technology rollouts. We also cover Apple's forthcoming new lineup of phones: the iPhone …

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The Hidden Science Behind Brain-Computer Interfaces — With Sally Adee 53:13

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Sally Adee is the author of We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds. Adee joins Big Technology Podcast to pull back the curtain on the body’s hidden wiring and brain-computer interfaces. We dig into how electricity drives every thought and twitch, why Neuralink’s first patient blew our mi…

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The Big GPT-5 Debate, Sam Altman’s AI Bubble, OnlyFans Chatbots 53:51

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Did AI take a step back with GPT-5? 2) Is AI hype going to cool off? 3) GPT-5's switching problem 4) Do we need AI agents? 5) Thinking Vs. Doing AI 6) Sam Altman says parts of AI are a bubble 7) Eric Schmidt says the U.S. should stop overindexing on AGI …

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Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid 1:04:30

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Nick Fox is the SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google. Liz Reid is the VP of Search at Google. The two join Big Technology Podcast to discuss the way Google plans and builds in the generative AI era, including how it chooses what to ship and when. We also cover publisher traffic, search monetization and ads, shopping and product research, and …

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Can The Web Survive Generative AI? — With Matthew Prince 54:44

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Matthew Prince is the CEO of Cloudflare. He joins Big Technology podcast to discuss whether the web can withstand a wave of generative AI companies scraping content, summarizing it, and not cutting the original creators into the revenue. Tune in to hear Prince masterfully dissect the problem and put forth a solution.…

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Is The AI Going To Escape? — With Anthony Aguirre 58:40

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Anthony Aguirre is the executive director of the Future of Life Institute. He joins Big Technology to discuss how AI could fail in the worst case and whether our push toward increasingly autonomous, general systems puts control out of reach. Tune in to hear how agentic systems operating at superhuman speed complicate oversight, and why “just unplug…

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Does GPT-5 Live Up To the Hype?, AGI Wait Continues, Self-Loathing Gemini 53:55

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI's launch of GPT-5 2) Whether GPT-5's tool calling ability is its hidden strength 3) GPT-5 is good at 'doing stuff' 4) But GPT-5 is not AGI 5) Do AI models need more than book smarts to thrive? 6) OpenAI's medicine play 7) GPT-5's coding use case 8…

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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next 30:38

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Brad Lightcap is the Chief Operating Officer of OpenAI. Lightcap joins Big Technology to discuss the launch of GPT-5, how it works, what sets it apart from previous models, and whether it's AGI. We also cover scaling laws, post-training breakthroughs, enterprise adoption, health care applications, pricing strategy, and the company’s profitability o…

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Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad 1:05:31

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Amjad Masad is the CEO of Replit. Masad joins Big Technology podcast for a frank discussion about vibe coding, or building software via prompt. We discuss all the use cases, whether anyone can do it or whether it's just a tool for already-technical builders, whether vibe coding replaces saas, and what the role of the engineer becomes in the future.…

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs and Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler 58:38

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M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology podcast for the latest of our first Monday of the month discussion about Big Tech strategy and AI. Today we cover Mark Zuckerberg's vision for personal superintelligence and whether it's more of a recruiting play or a real difference in the way the company builds AI. We also cover the …

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Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching? 51:20

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Alex's profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei + extra reporting 2) Are Anthropic's convictions earnest or marketing? 3) Where does Anthropic fit in the broader AI landscape 4) Will one AI company 'win it all' 5) Anthropic is raising at a new, $170 billion…

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism 1:08:49

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Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a raw, unfiltered conversation about AI's potential, its stakes, and the source of his outspokenness. The interview is part of a major Big Technology profile about Amodei, ft. interviews with more than two dozen of his colleagues, friends, and critics. You can read that story…

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Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars 1:04:21

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Financial Times San Francisco Bureau Chief Stephen Morris joins for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Is GPT-5 really on its way? 2) GPT-5's reported capabilities 3) Is Sam Altman going to call GPT-5 AGI? 4) If GPT-5 codes well, where does that leave Anthropic? 5) Stargate hasn't made a single data center deal yet 6) Scali…

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Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron 1:35:01

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Ed Zitron is the owner of EZPR, host of Better Offline, and author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Zitron joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the generative-AI boom is an unsustainable bubble ready to pop. Tune in to hear him debate OpenAI’s multi-billion-dollar burn rate, Microsoft’s leverage, and the economics behind ChatGPT. We…

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Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts 55:30

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Can Zuck and Elon buy their way into the AI race? 2) Will scaling laws turn AI progress over to the biggest tech 3) Grok's new AI avatars - Rudy and Ani 4) Grok's Ani AI bot gets steamy quickly 5) Why AI companies are counting on companion/love bots 6) T…

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Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat 45:41

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Condoleezza Rice is a former U.S. Secretary of State and current director of Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Rice joins Big Technology to discuss whether the United States can hold its technological edge as China races ahead in AI, batteries, and advanced manufacturing. Tune in to hear her candid take on the U.S.–China tech arms race, the ripple eff…

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Big Technology @ Five Years 8:16

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Big Technology Podcast is five years old. Today, we share a quick update with 1) Gratitude for our listeners 2) A change in ad network and what our ads will sound like next 3) Our editorial philosophy 4) How you can help. --- Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/s…

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OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie 48:02

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Box CEO Aaron Levie is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAi's Windsurf deal falls through 2) Is OpenAI okay? 3) What percentage of all AI spend goes to coding? 4) Google's AI code play 5) Grok 4 is out 6) Does Grok show the scaling laws are still in effect? 7) Would Box work with Grok? 8) NVIDIA hits $4 trilli…

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Trade War Scorecard: What's Changing, Who's Winning, What's Next — With Ryan Petersen 1:08:01

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Ryan Petersen is the CEO of Flexport. Petersen joins Big Technology to discuss how the latest round of tariffs and trade-war maneuvers are rewiring supply chains worldwide. Tune in to hear him unpack everything from 145 % “Liberation Day” duties and $5 K containers to the death of the de minimis loophole and what it means for Amazon, Temu, and Shei…

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Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler 58:25

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M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology podcast for the first installment of our new monthly discussion about Big Tech strategy and AI! Today, we cover why Apple may want to outsource Siri's brain to Anthropic or OpenAI, the rise of voice Ai, why Anthropic could be the right fit, and the complexity of what working with Apple…

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$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham 58:57

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Meta's reported $100 million offers to AI engineers 2) If those reports are false, who planted the rumor? 3) Why talent might be all that matters in AI right now 4) Will Meta's bet work? 5) Anthropic's project vend 6) If AI can't stock a fridge, will it …

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Is AI Really Taking Our Jobs? — With Noah Smith 55:43

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Noah Smith is a star economics writer behind the “Noahpinion” blog and co-host of the Econ 102 podcast. Smith joins Big Technology to discuss whether generative AI is actually boosting productivity or still waiting for its “electricity moment.” Tune in to hear his contrarian take on the so-called AI jobs apocalypse and how businesses will need to r…

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The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch 1:06:15

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Reed Albergotti is the technology editor at Semafor. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI is disappearing the web 2) Will there be new business models that replace the current web-based models? 3) Is the AI Agent thing really happening? 4) Vibecoding riches 5) Court rules Ant…

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Is AI Actually Saving The Stock Market? — With Tom Lee 1:01:02

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Tom Lee is the chief investment officer at Fundstrat Capital and head of research at FSInsight. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether generative AI wave is actually holding up the stock market and what would happen if it stalled or fell apart. We discuss what an AI 'Black Swan' event would look like, whether the bubble would pop, and w…

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OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree 47:17

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI and Microsoft's tension boils as business relationship grows complex 2) Is Microsoft being anticompetitive? 3) How much money OpenAI owes Microsoft 4) Who holds the power in the relationship? 5) OpenAI discounts ChatGPT enterprise 6) New study sho…

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Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition 1:10:30

3M ago1:10:30

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Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the frontiers of AI research, sharing why his timeline for AGI is a bit longer than the most enthusiastic researchers. Tune in for a candid discussion of the limitations of current methods, why continuous AI improvement might help the technology reach AGI…

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Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos 59:51

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Sam Altman's 'Gentle Singularity' essay 2) Is Altman overhyping the technology's current capabilities 3) Why the next few years may see crazy AI development 4) The case for and against humanoid robots 5) OpenAI's o3 pro model and the value of tool use 6)…

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What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler 55:44

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M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology to discuss Apple’s subdued WWDC and whether it signals deeper trouble with AI's capabilities. Tune in to hear a breakdown of Apple’s “UI over AI” approach, whether the company can pull off the Apple Intelligence vision at all, and if Liquid Glass is a redesign destined to fail. We also…

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WWDC Dispatch: Apple Refines in a Reinvention Era 13:14

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Alex Kantrowitz joins live from WWDC, where Apple just announced a number of new design changes including a completely updated operating system with 'Liquid Glass' styling. But in an era of reinvention, where AI is at the center of the technology's evolution, Apple introduced a number of refinements. This short, solo episode looks at Apple's strate…

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Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack 1:00:33

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) What's coming at Apple's WWDC developer conference 2) Apple may be taking an AI gap year 3) Apple's Upcoming AI bets 4) Airpods enhancements 5) Apple's new operating system 6) Why Apple should buy Perplexity 7) Is Perplexity positioning itself for a sale…

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Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem 1:04:06

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Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner at SkyBridge Capital, and host of The Rest Is Politics US. Scaramucci joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his brief experience as Trump's communication director, what derailed Elon Musk’s White House stint, the problems with Trump’s 'Big Beautiful Bill,' the state of the trade war, Tim C…

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Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed 50:53

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prophesy that 50% of entry level work will disappear 2) Hype or true: Is mass AI-driven unemployment just marketing? 3) How Amodei's prediction could come true 4) How work might shift even before job loss, as in the case of A…

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She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau 1:03:05

4M ago1:03:05

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Y-Lan Boureau is the founder & CEO of ThrivePal, an OpenAI-funded AI startup, and a former Meta AI researcher. Boureau joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss why the next frontier for AI should be science‑backed coaching that nudges us toward healthier habits and deeper real‑world relationships. Tune in to hear how large‑language models can push u…

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OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google Enters 'AI Mode' 50:58

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Alex's unexpected Sergey Brin interview 2) Jony Ive sells his IO device company to OpenAI 3) What this device could be 4) Is Jony + Sam bad for Apple? 5) Could this device work? 6) What the move to ambient assistants could signal for tech 7) Anthropic's …

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: Scaling AI, AGI Timeline, Simulation Theory 30:47

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Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google. The two leading tech executives join Alex Kantrowitz for a live interview at Google's IO developer conference to discuss the frontiers of AI research. Tune in to hear their perspective on whether scaling is tapped out, how reasoning techniques have performed, wha…

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Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential 29:51

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Koray Kavukcuoglu is the Chief Technology Officer of Google DeepMind. Kavukcuoglu joins Big Technology to discuss how his team is pushing the frontier of AI research inside Google as the company's Google IO developer event gets underway. Tune in to hear Kavukcuoglu break down the value of brute scale versus novel techniques and how the new inferenc…

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Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco 53:47

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) ChatGPT ranks No. 5 among all websites worldwide 2) ChatGPT is the only website among the top ranked by SimilarWeb that is growing 3) How do chatbots get information if they replace the web? 4) Grok's 'white genocide' messaging campaign 5) What's in a sy…

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AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna 1:01:55

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Emily  Bender is a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington. Alex Hanna is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. Bender and Hanna join Big Technology to discuss what their new book, “The AI‑Con," which they describe as the layered ways today’s language‑model boom obscures environmental costs, …