Can AIs be conscious. Now that we have a better understanding of the mind, we might have some answers to that question. That's coming up with best-selling author Michael Pollen right after this.Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for coolheaded and nuance conversation of the tech world and beyond. Today we have a great show for you. We are going to drill into the depths of artificial intelligence's ability to achieve consciousness and we're going to do it with the perfect person.We have Michael Pollen ...

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Over the years, I think I pretty much heard every single excuse why not to buy XRP, why you should not even be looking at XRP, why you should not be supporting Ripple and XRP. And again, I feel like the arguments I feel like the same points are constantly being brought up. Oh, XRP is centralized. XRP is a scam. Ripple is using XRP for revenue. That's it. And I feel like people don't do any research beyond just like the face value of things. Um, over the last couple years, you know, I've been watching XRP an ...

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We've talked a lot about the big cycle and how the monetary order as we know it, the domestic political order as we know it and the geopolitical order as we know it along with technology and changes in um uh nature are having a huge effect in a ways that they have done before and that is the big cycle as I call it. It explains what we can learn about our environment and particularly investing. I want to now pass along to you the chapter of my book, The Changing World Order, which is um investing in light of ...

Asset prices are selling off aggressively and everyone is left scratching their head. What is happening here. Well, I believe that the perfect storm is upon us.We are seeing three things happen simultaneously and those three things are creating significant headwinds for stocks, Bitcoin and other assets. First, there are four deflationary forces that are swallowing the US economy. Tariffs, deportations, artificial intelligence, and robotics.Each of these is creating a deflationary pressure that is pushing co ...

This is what Nvidia's Grace Blackwell looks like on the inside. The 72-GPU system that's seen soaring sales from the likes of Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. But what we're really at Nvidia for is an exclusive first look at this: Vera Rubin, Nvidia's next rack scale system for AI data centers, has the AI world buzzing because Nvidia says it'll help solve the biggest bottleneck threatening AI buildouts today.Energy. It's actually going to be about ten times more performant in terms of performance per wat ...

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People are calling anthropic hypocrites, including Elon Musk. Here's the post, by the way. 26 million views. We've identified industrialcale distillation attacks on our models by Deepseek, Moonshot AI, and Mini Max. These labs have created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models. Foreign labs that illicitly distill American models can remove safeguards. feeding model capabilities into their own mil ...

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