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GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy Sep 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:56 Alex Kantrowitz But I definitely did get the paneling from Amazon, uh, and nail them to the wall, panel by panel.

Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick Aug 10, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 39:57 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, 82% from Google, um, thirty-something percent from AWS, uh, 43% from Azure. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:28 Alex Kantrowitz Like, for instance, Amazon's gonna invest fifty billion dollars, uh, in OpenAI, and so, like, are we shocked that they're having 36% growth in cloud? 9 times in the scene

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 4 mentions

Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day Aug 3, 2026 · 10 mentions

What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get? Jul 27, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:59 Alex Kantrowitz I want Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, to believe this is an incremental technology.
  • ▶ 31:23 Alex Kantrowitz Nikkei Asia reported this week that Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle have accrued around 1.65 trillion in outside outstanding debt over the last five years with the additional, with an additional hundreds of billions of dollars… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:48 Alex Kantrowitz Let's see what Amazon says on CapEx.

Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble Jul 20, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 33:44 Alex Kantrowitz So what happens is Amazon, Google, Microsoft, they buy all the data centers and they buy all the compute that these companies have. 4 times in the scene

Inside The Rise of Physical AI — With Amir Khoshniyati Jul 20, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:19 Alex Kantrowitz Um, at the late 20 tens, I wrote a book called Always Day One, and in it I wrote about a company called Amazon, you might have heard of it, that was making use of AI and machine learning within 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:10 Alex Kantrowitz So this is really interesting because, um, when I, giving that Amazon example, the way that the company, um, would try to do forecasting of demand and 3 times in the scene

Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases Jun 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast Jun 26, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 10:49 Alex Kantrowitz So what we know about the fable ban or the export controls on Anthropik is that Amazon found a vulnerability in the software, and Andy Jassy maybe made a call to Dario, definitely made a call to the White House. 4 times in the scene

Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel Jun 11, 2026 · 6 mentions

Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:32 Alex Kantrowitz Despite OpenAI trying to do it, despite Meta trying to do it, despite Google trying to do it, despite Amazon trying to do it, we don't have any revolutionary AI computing device yet.

Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading Jun 2, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 28:11 Alex Kantrowitz And we've seen these amazing cloud revenue, uh, numbers over the past few quarters, uh, with, with Google and Microsoft and Amazon, all booking insane profits from their clouds divisions. 6 times in the scene

Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier May 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 18:47 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores. 3 times in the scene

The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 · 3 mentions

The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope? May 11, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 44:36 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Microsoft CTO, uh, Kevin Scott said there could be some PR downside, uh, downsides associated with not funding them and having them storm off to Amazon in a huff and shiktok us and Azure on the way out.
  • ▶ 45:06 Alex Kantrowitz Another executive, my worst case scenario is that having them ditch Azure for AWS and bad mouth us on the way over. 2 times in the scene

Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate? May 5, 2026 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 14:13 Alex Kantrowitz Well, if you look at, if you think about it, uh, Amazon, obviously they have the infrastructure, but Amazon Nova has gone nowhere. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:13 Alex Kantrowitz Well, if you look at, if you think about it, uh, Amazon, obviously they have the infrastructure, but Amazon Nova has gone nowhere.
  • ▶ 35:58 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so it's now available on, on Amazon for Amazon cloud customers. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:58 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so it's now available on, on Amazon for Amazon cloud customers. 6 times in the scene

OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban May 4, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 11:40 Alex Kantrowitz And apparently Amazon, Amazon even has like these little AI power podcasts about their product. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:16 Alex Kantrowitz AWS, by the way, stuck in the 17, 18% growth rate range for the past few years grew 28%.
  • ▶ 42:19 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money than the Manhattan Project every single month, more than twin x the Manhattan, 12 x the Manhattan Project every year.

Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade Apr 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:05 Alex Kantrowitz Um, in the world, maybe out of outside of the Amazon Echo.
  • ▶ 22:06 Alex Kantrowitz And, uh, obviously NVIDIA is locked in this battle with Google and, uh, Amazon and Anthropic, which have, you know, together basically trained

Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot Apr 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:54 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, has been, has put out, uh, and Tranium, which is Amazon's version of it, um, you know, two of the top three models in the world, Claude and Gemini were trained on it, and what does that mean for NVIDIA going forward, right? 2 times in the scene

The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta Apr 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:59 Alex Kantrowitz The company is making a preview model of its new AI model called Mythos, available to about 50 companies and organizations that maintain critical infrastructure, including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, and the Linux Foundation.
  • ▶ 5:36 Alex Kantrowitz AWS is there.

OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure Apr 6, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Alex Kantrowitz SpaceX files for an IPO, and it's a big one, and Iran has hit Amazon targets in the Gulf, rendering at least a few inoperable. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:02 Alex Kantrowitz And we also have some news about, uh, Amazon data centers in the Gulf.
  • ▶ 35:57 Alex Kantrowitz Um, we have some reporting that Iran has hit, um, enough sites in Bahrain and Dubai that belong to Amazon that there are a couple of availability zones in those regions that are hard down, according to some internal communication that I…
  • ▶ 36:39 Alex Kantrowitz So not only have these sites been hit, um, but the company is asking employees within AWS to deprioritize them.

OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund Mar 23, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 49:22 Alex Kantrowitz No, I was, I was just saying, I, to myself, I think they are basically saying that, that version of what you just said, which is like, this was, it's almost like, you know, like the, uh, fire phone led to the echo or something.
  • ▶ 49:49 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, speaking of Amazon, 4 times in the scene

Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin Mar 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:18 Alex Kantrowitz And we, I mean, we have three Alexa pluses and or echoes in the house and we're talking to Alexa plus all the time. 2 times in the scene

AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay Mar 16, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:43 Alex Kantrowitz We're also going to talk about Amazon and others having trouble with their vibe coding and what the underlying story is there.
  • ▶ 39:10 Alex Kantrowitz Which Amazon and McKinsey are finding out.
  • ▶ 40:29 Alex Kantrowitz Well, I can guarantee you're not going to see an ad like that come out of Amazon anytime soon. 10 times in the scene

AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore Mar 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:46 Alex Kantrowitz The way that they're pitching companies like Amazon, which just invested fifty billion in open AI.

AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite Mar 9, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 12:26 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI scales back its agentic shopping ambitions just as Amazon puts fifty billion dollars into the company. 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:02 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google are in a spending arms race, plowing over one hundred billion per quarter into data centers, while Apple spending is down 19%.

Pentagon Insider: What's Next For Anthropic and The Department of War — With Michael Horowitz Mar 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:47 Alex Kantrowitz He said, effectively, effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with anthropic, uh, that includes Amazon, by the way, who, uh, is a U S…

Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD Mar 4, 2026 · 12 mentions

Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff Mar 2, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 26:20 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, OpenAI announces a hundred ten billion dollar funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:08 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI said it's expanding its existing thirty-eight billion dollar agreement with Amazon Web Services by one hundred billion over the next year, eight years.
  • ▶ 52:07 Alex Kantrowitz Like every company comes out and does a 20% layoff.

OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie Feb 23, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:27 Alex Kantrowitz One hundred billion dollar or thereabouts funding raise for OpenAI, where SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, and maybe Microsoft are expected to participate.
  • ▶ 1:22 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon might end up investing as much as fifty billion, which is wild given their connections, uh, to Anthropic, and then, I don't know, the numbers are even making it look like at least one 10 to me, because Nvidia, uh, might. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:41 Alex Kantrowitz That just happened to Amazon, by the way. 2 times in the scene

Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion Feb 16, 2026 · 3 mentions

Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles Feb 9, 2026 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 0:07 Alex Kantrowitz And Amazon spending freaks out investors. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:18 Alex Kantrowitz Every time there's like a number that's slightly off the market, like again, they're tanking Amazon stock today, which we can get to, even though the market, by the way, the market's rebounded nicely.
  • ▶ 55:33 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon, uh, stock is down six point about seven percent, uh, today. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 55:43 Alex Kantrowitz AWS went up 24% in the fourth quarter, which is kind of astounding. 3 times in the scene

AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau Feb 6, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 40:56 Alex Kantrowitz You know, the former Amazon CEO of Worldwide Consumers, uh, going out and vibe coding a CRM over the weekend. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:13 Alex Kantrowitz Microsoft and Amazon and Google have massive stakes. 2 times in the scene

The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum Feb 3, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 34:23 Alex Kantrowitz Money into Anthropik after being OpenAI's biggest backer, and Amazon maybe putting fifty billion into OpenAI after being Anthropik's biggest backer, and I think the way that you frame this is really interesting, that there is effectively… 4 times in the scene

The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO Feb 2, 2026 · 28 mentions

  • ▶ 7:02 Alex Kantrowitz That's not Amazon. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:15 Alex Kantrowitz Um, so here's this, here's the headline, uh, it is, Amazon is in talks to invest up to fifty billion in OpenAI. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:59 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, let's talk about Apple quickly, and then the Amazon layoffs if we have a moment, and then we'll get into Elon.
  • ▶ 40:53 Alex Kantrowitz Speaking of, of companies that try lots of different versions of products, um, with AI inside, we have Amazon and Amazon did not report earnings this week. 18 times in the scene

Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra Jan 28, 2026 · 5 mentions

OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin Jan 26, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:17 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, you know, there's Amazon
  • ▶ 18:59 Alex Kantrowitz And of course, like, AWS's lead is shrinking, but AWS is still, you know, far and away the leading cloud provider. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:07 Alex Kantrowitz They're underpinning Amazon's entire valuation.
  • ▶ 41:08 Alex Kantrowitz Man, like Apple, the company that once seemed to, like, ship, like, one product every bunch of years, starting to sound like Amazon now. 3 times in the scene

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:35 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I saw a post from an ex Amazon executive who said that he built a custom CRM in a weekend, or actually a day and a half.

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing Jan 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:51 Alex Kantrowitz Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta.
  • ▶ 24:59 Alex Kantrowitz We've heard presentations about Alexa plus and Apple intelligence and the meta, all the different buddies you can have in the meta properties, uh, Google obviously with Gemini, but even though they have all this data, uh, we still don't…

AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball Jan 13, 2026 · 14 mentions

2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft Dec 24, 2025 · 10 mentions

Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026? Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

Capital One's Prem Natarajan: Why We're Building Our AI From The Ground Up Dec 15, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:27 Alex Kantrowitz You were really there on the ground up when, uh, Amazon built Alexa, and we'll come back to that in a bit, but you've really seen how companies build AI strategies effectively, and you are running the AI effort at Capital One.
  • ▶ 0:27 Alex Kantrowitz You were really there on the ground up when, uh, Amazon built Alexa, and we'll come back to that in a bit, but you've really seen how companies build AI strategies effectively, and you are running the AI effort at Capital One.
  • ▶ 36:20 Alex Kantrowitz So you were on the ground, like I mentioned in the, in our opening, uh, with Amazon Alexa, uh, the very beginning there. 2 times in the scene

AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers Dec 8, 2025 · 22 mentions

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