Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We're also joined by Steven Adler, ex-OpenAI safety researcher and author of Clear-Eyed AI on Substack. We cover: 1) The Viral "Something Big Is Happening" essay 2) What the essay got wrong about recursive self-improving AI 3) Where the essay was right about the pace of change 4) Are we ready for the repercussions of fast moving AI? 5) Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model card's risks 6) Do AI models know when they're being test ...

How are companies finding value today from cuttingedge AI models. Let's talk about it with Promeo CEO Carik Kerpapuri who joins us today in a conversation brought to you by Promeo. Caric, great to see you.Welcome to the show. >> Thank you, Alex. Thanks for having me.>> So, a little bit about Promeo. You work extremely closely with Google's AI technology, which has been like a pretty good place, I would say, over the past few months to be. >> So, I'd love to hear just from your perspective because no one wat ...

Sridhar Ramaswamy is the CEO of Snowflake. Ramaswamy joins Big Technology Podcast to break down the competitive dynamics in the AI race today, drawing from his experience working at Google and competing with it. We also cover the future of software, looking at whether AI will turn established software companies into "dumb backends." In the second half, we discuss “shadow AI” driving enterprise adoption from the bottom up, the risk of becoming a feature in someone else's platform, and why Chinese open-source ...

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) AI worries crush software stocks 2) Why is software in the crosshairs? 3) Is it vibecoding or that software becomes an input into AI bots 4) Why software might make it through 5) Anthropic's legal plugin that set it off 6) Okay, so no AI bubble? 7) Anthropic's Super Bowl ad attacks OpenAI 8) OpenAI's response 9) OpenAI losing share to rival chatbots 10) What the hell is happening to Bitcoin? 11) Chapters 00:00 Th ...

We have a great crowd uh here today and I know that we're live streaming this and we're going to put it on YouTube. So, I want everybody at home to be able to hear how many people we have with us. So, you got to make some noise.Let's hear you. >> I'm Alex Can. I'm the host of Big Technology Podcast and I'm thrilled to be here with Dr.. Alan Barretts for a conversation about the cutting edge of quantum computing. Dr. . Dr.. Barretts, it's great to speak with you again. >> Great to speak with you. You're maki ...

My view is it's not binary when are we in a bubble not in a bubble. I think parts of the AI industry probably are >> and other parts I think it remains to be seen. So I think some of the things are you know when you see seed rounds of tens of billions of dollars with of companies that basically have no product or research.It's just some people coming together that seems a bit unsustainable to me in a normal market bit. Um on the other hand, you know, we're uh businesses like us, we have massive underlying b ...

M.G. Siegler of Spyglass is back for our monthly tech news discussion. M.G. joins us to discuss Moltbook, the new Reddit-style social network where 150,000 AI agents are chatting, upvoting, and even proposing their own private language to keep humans out. Tune in to hear whether this is a preview of the singularity or just elaborate role-play—and why the security vulnerabilities are genuinely concerning. We also cover NVIDIA quietly backing away from its $100 billion OpenAI deal, Apple's record quarter that ...

AGI should be sort of turned into a marketing term or for commercial gain. I think there is always been a scientific uh definition of that. My definition of that is a system that um can exhibit all the cognitive capabilities humans can and I mean all.So that means you know the the the the the kind of highest levels of human creativity that we always celebrate the scientists and the artists that we admire. So it means you know not just solving a maths equation or a conjecture but coming up with a breakthroug ...

Financial Times San Francisco Bureau Chief Stephen Morris joins for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic's $20 billion fundraising round 2) OpenAI is looking at $100 billion in funding 3) Amazon alone might put $50 billion in OpenAI 4) When does the money run out? 5) The rise of Clawdbot/Moltbot 6) Meta and Microsoft beat on earnings but go in separate directions 7) The market has no idea what to do with the AI trade 8) Apple's historic quarter 9) Amazon lays off 16,000 10) ...

We've brought up AGI a couple times. Um, so let me let me put this to you because I was speaking with Sam Alman towards the end of the year and I asked him, I was like, you know, you seem to be saying two things. We're not at AGI yet, >> but every time he talks about what GPT models can do, it seems like it fits his definition.And he said, uh, a that AGI is underdefined. And what he wishes everybody could agree to was that we've sort of whooshed by AGI and we move towards super intelligence. Do you agree wi ...