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New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Hype or True? Nvidia's $100 Billion Dollar Investment in OpenAI (Over Time) with @kantrowitz.bsky.social, @brianmc.bsky.social, @danshipper.bsky.social, @aripaparo.com

Behold, the magic of taking 49 words and turning it into 3,000 words.

Always great to chat with @kantrowitz.bsky.social , this month I think we really kick into gear after the bit about "SuperUltraMegaIntelligence" about half way through. All high heat from that point on...

I wrote about Dario www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making...

Enjoyed this conversation with Ed. Take a look!

The stuff I naturally read and write about I will now *talk* about on a monthly basis with @kantrowitz.bsky.social. 🗣️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

New rule: Reporters writing this type of story must flawlessly set up the beach chair before printing.

It’s kind of amazing that Elon’s lost control of Grok

Life moves fast in AI, huh @kantrowitz.bsky.social? This morning: Apple should buy Perplexity www.bigtechnology.com/p/why-apple-... This afternoon: Apple discussed buying Perplexity www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Questions for @edzitron.com?

Apple’s $20 Billion Ticking Time Bomb. Time to start thinking about what happens to the company if Google's annual payments go away. It's not pretty. www.bigtechnology.com/p/apples-20-...

If you want a quick hour of @kantrowitz.bsky.social and I breaking down WWDC 25, here you go. I think it's pretty good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... (and video form: youtu.be/e-jhzwOQBTw?...)

In a world where screens fade away and AI steps forward, where is Apple's place? www.bigtechnology.com/p/apple-desi...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social you were right!

The best podcast I've found to keep abreast of AI developments is the Big Technology podcast. I'm glad they had @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social on this week, and @garymarcus.bsky.social last week. AI skepticism is growing! open.spotify.com/episode/7uo3...

Thanks @kantrowitz.bsky.social for a refreshingly unbiased discussion of China’s AI efforts with Grace Shao. youtu.be/pksvCuoCOWs?...

As Zuckerberg testified that people spend less time with friend content than ever before, OpenAI released a new model that will be a friend that shares with you. Now that AIs have personalities, AI is the new social media. www.bigtechnology.com/p/why-ai-is-...

Social media succeeded by playing to outrage while AI is succeeding just by being useful. Both are discovery tools. Why the difference?

OpenAI is going to call GPT-5 AGI, lock it in

Really good talk with Grace Shao by @kantrowitz.bsky.social Recorded a month ago, so Grace added some notes on her substack aiproem.substack.com/p/podcast-th... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Upon further review, it turns out that social media is indeed biased

Plenty of under appreciated risks for Big Tech as the tariff imbroglio rolls on www.bigtechnology.com/p/big-techs-...

Whoops

The thing about the tariffs-as-a-negotiation-tactic play is it now takes more one bad thing to really send things off the rails

Liberated

New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Weak Perfection Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare with @leolaporte.me, @kantrowitz.bsky.social, @iainthomson.bsky.social, @byjacobward.bsky.social

“Biblical demand”

World History Encyclopedia, the second most visited history site, says its traffic fell 25% in Nov. 2024 after AI search tools began presenting its information (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The World History Encyclopedia lost 25% of its traffic since AI tools started surfacing its info. The web’s old deal (sites publish, search engines send traffic) is breaking. ChatGPT flipped the script, and now more sites will wall off content or die as ad revenue dries up. And the web gets worse

Thanks @kantrowitz.bsky.social for the fantastic discussion with Yann LeCun about LLMs. What they can and can’t do currently. What’s needed to actually achieve reasoning and new discoveries. youtu.be/qvNCVYkHKfg?...

World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. Then traffic dropped 25%. www.bigtechnology.com/p/as-ai-take...

Pretty amazing how Elon Musk's X is now the greatest marketing tool for OpenAI, his arch rival, with all these Ghibli images filling the feed. h/t @mgsiegler.com

Wise words

Maybe DOGEing Twitter's INFRA team wasn't the best idea, idk

Twitter down as NFL free agency begins. Good opportunity for Bluesky

Claude is getting crazy. I built this game in three prompts It's called Scoop Hunter. The character, a journalist, has to get close to a source and ask three times before they give him some info. Each scoop is a point. You can play it here: claude.site/artifacts/dd...

Today in Big Technology / Boston Globe Ideas: Okay, I’m Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All www.bigtechnology.com/p/okay-im-st...

We've seen the same contextually aware, AI assistant demo from all the tech giants. Maybe Amazon can actually make it work? Why I'm tentatively bullish on the new Alexa+ (free to read) www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-tech-g...

Check out our interview with @kantrowitz.bsky.social about the arrival of DeepSeek and why it created such a shockwave. Episode: Skeptic Check, Into the Deep Seek

Listen: @chrislhayes.bsky.social and I went deep into how social platforms hook your attention and the degree that's different from news publishers. Plus: A discussion on fame, ad-tech, and Elon. Check it out --> Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3llt...

I'm dropping notes/observations from today's Amazon Alexa event in the Big Technology Discord server + fielding questions for an upcoming podcast. Join here: www.bigtechnology.com/p/lets-talk-...

Shorter Bezos: Our opinion section will now have one opinion.

Jeff Bezos emails Washington Post about Opinion: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

New York is special

I got to do a guest post in Big Technology looking at how Meta not only survived Apple's ATT crackdown but came out stronger than ever www.bigtechnology.com/p/apple-trie...

Awesome piece by Mike here telling the inside story of Meta's somewhat miraculous ability to defeat Apple's advertising broadside:

Me: Writes anything Grok 3:

This is legit hilarious