Big Technology Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, Alex Kantrowitz interviews Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, and Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, about the frontiers of AI. They discuss the potential for improvement in frontier models, the importance of both scale and algorithmic advances, and the need for more data ce...

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

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

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

OpenAI’s New Structure, Apple Replacing Google With AI?, Cheating With ChatGPT

Is AI Scaling Dead? — With Gary Marcus

In this episode of Big Technology Podcast, Alex Kantrowitz interviews AI critic Gary Marcus about the diminishing returns of scaling generative AI models. Marcus argues that the AI industry is hitting the limits of scaling, as evidenced by the failure to produce a GPT-5 level model despite massive investments in data a...

The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic

Amazon's Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani

This episode explores the impact of trade wars and the future of AI-powered shopping, featuring an interview with Jamil Ghani, VP of Amazon Prime. Against the backdrop of conflicting news reports about Amazon's response to tariffs, Ghani clarifies that displaying tariff costs was only considered for Amazon's low-cost ...

Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious?, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck

Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With Dylan Patel

Generative AI operates by converting language into numerical tokens, which models process as vectors to predict subsequent patterns. Pre-training establishes a general understanding of world knowledge by minimizing prediction loss across vast datasets, while post-training—including reinforcement learning with human fee...

Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?, Is AI The New Social Media?, Zuck’s Revealing Testimony

Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao

A Week of Trade War Chaos & What's Next For Tech

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs

This episode explores the rise of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the significant role of artificial intelligence (AI) in its growth. Against the backdrop of a competitive cloud hosting market dominated by Microsoft and Amazon, GCP's rapid expansion, fueled by AI adoption, is analyzed. More significantly, the discuss...

Special Report: Tariffs and Turmoil — With Ryan Petersen and Adam Parker