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GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
- ▶ 27:39 Alex Kantrowitz So just to sort of give the, um, the, to, and the information had a good story about this, this week, just to sort of give the, uh, the lay of the land here. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 1:51 Alex Kantrowitz And its desktop super app, this is according to the information, OpenAI is part of its effort to attract more business customers, announced a new agent called ChatGPT Work, which taps into corporate data to automate the creation of…
- ▶ 29:24 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 2:16 Alex Kantrowitz That is according to the information.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 29:54 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information. 2 times in the scene
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 41:02 Alex Kantrowitz Anissa Gardizi from The Information, Max Cherney from Reuters, and Lauren Good of Wired.
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 32:58 Alex Kantrowitz Article in the information.
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 1:52 Alex Kantrowitz Alright, this is from the information.
- ▶ 21:57 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information article.
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 1:33 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, and this is again, the reporting from the information in recent months, Altman left Friar out of a conversation about service spending with leaders at one of OpenAI's top investors. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:17 Alex Kantrowitz One last thing about, about the revenue side, um, there's this chart in this, in the information story, and, um, for those of you in audio, I'll just kind of narrate it a little bit.
OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- ▶ 11:58 Alex Kantrowitz And even the reporting that you're seeing, uh, in, come out in the information in the Wall Street Journal, uh, tells us that this was, you know, part of the aim of bringing them on.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 23:06 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, the information said, uh, that you finished, uh, pre-training Spud and Sam Albin, the CEO at OpenAI has told the staff that, uh, they should expect to have a very strong model in a few weeks.
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 2:09 Alex Kantrowitz So here, this is from the information.
- ▶ 7:06 Alex Kantrowitz And the information 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:20 Ranjan Roy Like maybe all this comes true, but actually one thing I wanted to highlight about, and like being very close to the whole world of agentic commerce, they, the information had reporting this week that open AI is already looking to scale…
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 27:36 Ranjan Roy It is impossible to tell what the actual round is, because again, one of the, from the information, Amazon's decision to invest up to fifty billion dollars in OpenAI could hang on whether OpenAI goes public or reaches a loosely defined…
OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- ▶ 37:11 Alex Kantrowitz The information says Apple is developing an AI wearable pin. 2 times in the scene
Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential
- ▶ 22:21 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information.
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- ▶ 11:41 Reed Albergotti Well, I mean, there was an interesting story in the information today, um, that, that said, you know, AI, so opening eyes realize that there's less progress on the, the model front, um, and, and consumers don't, it doesn't necessarily…
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- ▶ 37:22 Alex Kantrowitz And, you know, it started with this information story about how maybe Microsoft salespeople's, um, photos had been reduced because of this.
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 37:22 Alex Kantrowitz Here's from the information.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 2:34 Alex Kantrowitz Um, information comes out with this very interesting story about it.
OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
- ▶ 12:01 Ranjan Roy So much of this still feels so open AI, like in the, from the information, open AI foundations board controls the open AI corporations board through its ability to name and remove its directors, which could upend the company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:33 Alex Kantrowitz So here's, uh, from the information, OpenAI readies itself for its Facebook era. 2 times in the scene
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 34:54 Alex Kantrowitz This is, uh, from the information.
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- ▶ 36:35 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information.
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 32:11 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information opening.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 29:03 M.G. Siegler The first time I heard him mention this was in an, uh, an interview with Jessica Lesson of the information where he just started like to casually mention personal super intelligence.
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 7:50 Alex Kantrowitz That's a perfect lead-in, because the information does have some news on that. 3 times in the scene
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- ▶ 1:29 Ed Zitron They claim, the information's reported a few times, like, twenty-twenty-nine, twenty-thirty, they're gonna magically become profitable due to Stargate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:23 Ed Zitron But even then, the information's reported recently that that's not going so good either. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:24 Ed Zitron The information reported a few months ago that Salesforce does not expect any growth from AI this year.
- ▶ 55:17 Ed Zitron They, one of the great reports of the information, I quote them a lot because they're doing some of the best tech journalism out there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:32 Ed Zitron And then the information had another story today where it went, so a couple weeks ago, where it was saying that OpenAI has been undercutting Microsoft in deals, selling their models, and undercutting their enterprise subscription deals.
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 23:16 unnamed speaker I believe is from the information.
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
- ▶ 4:08 Alex Kantrowitz This is coming from, uh, the information. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:08 Alex Kantrowitz This is according to the information.
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 27:26 Alex Kantrowitz So, uh, this is from the information Meta to pay nearly fifteen billion for scale AI stake in startups, 28 year old CEO.
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 44:53 Ranjan Roy Seemingly positive, exciting number, but then from the information is that Cohere, that basically they had shown investors they'd be making four hundred fifty million ARR by 2024, and now they're at a hundred in May 2025, and the…
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
- ▶ 18:48 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:29 Alex Kantrowitz There is a study out of Dartmouth, again, from the information, that says that a custom-built AI chatbot called TheraBot reduced patient symptoms at a level comparable to traditional therapy.
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- ▶ 34:26 Brian McCullough Um, I, I believe that, uh, you, you spoke to folks at the information that have a, a, a very specific analysis of this, like core weave has something like 2 times in the scene
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 47:45 Alex Kantrowitz The story, I think this is the information story, uh, they say that 2 times in the scene
How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 4:58 M.G. Siegler I think Sam Altman tweeted, you know, maybe on Friday, like, about how they were, like, bundling, rejiggering some of the bundles, right, that they have, like, what's in the free offering and stuff, and it sort of feels like we're gonna…
OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- ▶ 1:00 Alex Kantrowitz This is from the information the ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a web browser that would combine with its chatbot, and it has separately discussed or struck deals to PowerSearch features. 2 times in the scene
Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- ▶ 2:22 Alex Kantrowitz And that's really come on the back of this great information report that talks about how open AI has basically found that it has hit the limit of improvement when it trains with more data, more compute, and more power. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:36 Alex Kantrowitz And, uh, this is again from the information. 2 times in the scene
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 37:11 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but one report that came out of, I think the information this week is that, um,
OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- ▶ 4:23 Alex Kantrowitz And there's a, there's an item in the information that talks about how, this is from Corey Weinberg, um,
- ▶ 7:16 Alex Kantrowitz So first of all, the information has that opening. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:52 Alex Kantrowitz And this week they put out some numbers, uh, with the information. 2 times in the scene
AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
- ▶ 6:54 Alex Kantrowitz And there was a story in the information recently that Microsoft is working on a five hundred billion parameter model.
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 43:57 Kara Swisher You know, you're going to have individual creators who are very influential, of which there are many now, um, you know, uh, or small companies like an information or puck or something like that, or small and who's new, whose business,…
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business
- ▶ 7:10 Alex Kantrowitz So I just want to ask one more follow-up to that, and Ronjan will jump in afterwards, but there's this sort of dramatic scene in this information story about you guys that came out last year.
Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
- ▶ 4:48 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, told, according to the information, um, told staff that, uh, that Microsoft, uh, had the, wait, okay.