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How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
- ▶ 7:39 Alex Kantrowitz Um, when I was covering you, when I was a reporter at Buzzfeed and you were working at Meta,
- ▶ 14:32 Alex Kantrowitz There was, so, it's funny, I was at Buzzfeed, which was a publication that sort of based its existence on the idea that people would want to get their information through social media feeds, and you were at, you were at Facebook, that was…
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:15 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and a week after I was here, May 26, 20 20, I decided it was time for me to leave my reporter job at BuzzFeed and start a publication called Big Technology to hammer home on the ideas that I had pursued in the book.
Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- ▶ 54:21 Ranjan Roy Go get BuzzFeed. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 44:36 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I had an Oculus when I was, uh, it was a test device when I was at, uh, Buzzfeed back in the day.
AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
- ▶ 9:12 Alex Kantrowitz I actually broke the news of Tay that Microsoft was going, had this great bot, spoke with the people, wrote the first story about it when I was at BuzzFeed.
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- ▶ 54:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, when, when I got hired at Buzzfeed to be a reporter in San Francisco, I was a reporter at age at the time, but I'm pretty sure it was the stuff I was writing on medium that caught the attention of the editors there and got me that…
Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- ▶ 4:06 Alex Kantrowitz Um, just to give an example, there was, I, about 10 years ago, when I was at Buzzfeed writing about consumer tech, there was this nutrition app that I would use, and you would upload your meals and, um, your thoughts and stuff like that,…
Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- ▶ 40:41 Alex Kantrowitz By the way, that happened, I think, in the twenty-twenties, but I definitely missed the twenty-tenths when I was, uh, you know, doing social media reporting at BuzzFeed, and there would be a new app every, every week, and it was like, all…
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 26:57 Alex Kantrowitz So I remember it well, because I broke, I had the exclusive, so Microsoft came to me to break that news at BuzzFeed, and I wrote, Microsoft has this fun chatbot called Tay, it will, you know, be your friend.
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 57:19 Alex Kantrowitz When I was at BuzzFeed, I did a series where I would fight with robots.
Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- ▶ 7:42 Saagar Enjeti I have an age, I almost have an age bias on this, where I think everyone under 30 should have to go into work, and I, I'm, maybe you, did you ever go to the Buzzfeed offices? age,
Why The Costco Guys And Hawk Tuah Took Over The Internet
- ▶ 34:03 Alex Kantrowitz BuzzFeed has recently sold hot ones, and whether the future of media is eating, eating hot wings.
- ▶ 34:38 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but right before this Ron John told me, all right, Alex, if we're going to talk with Ryan about internet culture, we have to talk about effectively what's happened to Buzzfeed and what it's done with its assets. 11 times in the scene
What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
- ▶ 48:19 Alex Kantrowitz Um, where Stephanie Lee, one of my former BuzzFeed colleagues actually goes into what the book claims and the criticism.
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 19:07 Alex Kantrowitz Well, I was at BuzzFeed News during that time, and we exploded a watermelon.
- ▶ 45:04 Alex Kantrowitz I'd be like, write your way in, and then someone like a BuzzFeed or a Vice will hire you.
- ▶ 54:25 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, if you think about it, the last place I was at, BuzzFeed News, no longer in existence, so.
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business
- ▶ 4:33 Alex Kantrowitz Like Ben Smith wrote this whole book called traffic saying basically like his miscalculation with Buzzfeed was that traffic equals money.
Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- ▶ 13:11 Alex Kantrowitz I was working at Buzzfeed at the time and I said, okay, this is great.
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 25:04 Alex Kantrowitz I've been, uh, when I was at Buzzfeed, I flew the drones and captured, uh, some wild footage inside, uh, some of the wildfire impacted areas in California.
Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 58:37 Alex Kantrowitz I would also take the blame, you know, on that one, I wrote some stories about it for Buzzfeed that I wish I could go back and revise.