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Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
- ▶ 40:51 Matthew Prince The answer is you go on something like a Instagram or a Facebook or even a Google AdWords search, and you start to buy the ability to get your product in front of consumers. 2 times in the scene
Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
- ▶ 22:31 Alex Kantrowitz For the future owner of Facebook and Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:33 Alex Kantrowitz Meta agrees to pay eighteen billion to settle U.S. lawsuits over children's social media addiction, and it's going to pay it over the next decade, and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:48 Alex Kantrowitz Some of those are brands, but more so, like, the whole experience, I think, is just to get you in that Reels feed.
- ▶ 50:59 Alex Kantrowitz She started her own Instagram to document her ride to riches. 2 times in the scene
How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
- ▶ 14:16 Campbell Brown You know, on Instagram, Snap, on podcasts, it's people like you.
- ▶ 34:16 Alex Kantrowitz Similar to like Mark Zuckerberg is not very popular, but like people who use Instagram like it.
How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- ▶ 45:59 unnamed speaker Well, you have Instagram.
- ▶ 58:58 David Cahn And then we, like, have resulted in, like, you know, Instagram and TikTok and whatever.
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 55:25 Alex Kantrowitz But if a company can figure out how to like build an AI companion, which I think is going to be even stickier than reels or tick tock, because come on, it's just like, you've, you've built a digital friend.
- ▶ 56:48 Reed Albergotti Facebook is an Instagram, like their, their core businesses and, and whatever WhatsApp, you know, fits into that.
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 27:42 Ranjan Roy That is a threat and like kneecapping the companies that are coming after you on that would be kind of like,
- ▶ 42:26 Ranjan Roy You could, he can forever argue you have four billion phones with like meta AI kind of jammed into Instagram and Facebook messenger and stuff. 6 times in the scene
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:20:46 Alex Kantrowitz And so today we are lucky to hear from the person running that lab, Mike Krieger, who is the co-founder of Instagram and now the lead of, um, of Anthropic Labs at Anthropic. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:31:41 Mike Krieger That's like the language I know all Instagram was all Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:41:19 Alex Kantrowitz So I sold Instagram for a billion, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55:00 Mike Krieger And I think part of it is, you know, I don't know how far back that that chart goes, but when we were releasing Instagram, it still felt a little bit Wild West in terms of the apps, like people were excited about apps and like two kind of… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55:17 Mike Krieger I think that is much harder now when you think about how consolidated the top 10 is and how much time spent is spent on like the tech talks and reels of the world.
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 0:27 Alex Kantrowitz And so today we are lucky to hear from the person running that lab, Mike Krieger, who is the co-founder of Instagram and now the lead of, um, of Anthropic Labs at Anthropic.
- ▶ 2:04 Mike Krieger Bring back Fable, which like in Instagram, we got rid of Gotham.
- ▶ 11:22 Mike Krieger That's like the language I know all Instagram was all Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:00 Alex Kantrowitz So sold Instagram for a billion, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:28 Mike Krieger And I think part of it is, you know, I don't know how far back that that chart goes, but when we were releasing Instagram, it still felt a little bit Wild West in terms of the apps, like people were excited about apps and like two kind of… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:45 Mike Krieger I think that is much harder now when you think about how consolidated the top 10 is and how much time spent is spent on like the tech talks and reels of the world.
- ▶ 37:32 Mike Krieger Like Instagram was if you ever watched my five year old play soccer now, by which I mean, like the ball is there and every single person runs the ball. 4 times in the scene
Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
- ▶ 16:52 Alex Himel We see a lot of content shared on Instagram that otherwise wouldn't have be captured, wouldn't not be captured.
- ▶ 56:32 Alex Himel Image quality is good enough to be sharing videos to Instagram or, you know, the app of your choosing that you're, that you feel good about and that people like to engage with.
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 47:05 Alex Kantrowitz This year's build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcee posting a thirst, a thirst trap on Instagram.
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 42:40 Alex Kantrowitz Or is it like reels and an AI project? 4 times in the scene
Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
- ▶ 14:47 Boris Cherny So this is like Facebook, Instagram, you know, WhatsApp.
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 10:18 Ranjan Roy But every time you scroll your Instagram feed, the recommendation engine that's powering the ad that is being served to you, this was Meta's, like, greatest, I mean, they broke out of the Apple iOS 14.5 prison and kind of showed that they… 3 times in the scene
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 45:09 Ranjan Roy That the, the agents just, like, they start, he starts to put him to work, and then they're just scrolling, and then they go to Instagram, and then they, like...
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 12:36 Ranjan Roy Every time you scroll Instagram and Facebook, you are just seeped in AI in terms of the recommendations, in terms of like the ads that are targeting you. 3 times in the scene
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 36:55 Olivia Moore Uh, right now, I think the products we've seen are, are pretty, like, straightforward as they should be at this stage in that, like, okay, you want to grow your business, let's spend on meta ads, but you can imagine a month from now, some…
- ▶ 48:43 Olivia Moore Um, but because the videos were exportable, what would happen is that the best Sora videos would get uploaded onto TikTok or Reels, and then they would compete against the best human-made videos, and so the overall feed experience was just…
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 51:59 Alex Kantrowitz So this is a video that he put, I think on Instagram, you see him say, I'm so excited to eat this big arch and he just kind of holds it and looks at it and then takes a tiny little nipple off of it.
Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- ▶ 13:15 Alex Kantrowitz I probably would have been working on spreadsheets in WhatsApp and on Instagram, communicating with a bunch of people that way, as opposed to centralizing it in workflow technology.
The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- ▶ 31:16 Stephen Morris And, and their counterparties love this, you know, whether it's on Instagram, WhatsApp threads, Facebook.
- ▶ 54:18 Stephen Morris We're all over Instagram, X, wherever.
Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
- ▶ 20:13 Bret Taylor Um, this is largely happening on, like, TikTok and Instagram, uh, and Facebook today.
OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin
- ▶ 32:15 Ranjan Roy And there was like, they, they could have been in a position where imagine Mark Zuckerberg acquires Instagram because, but they're not making any money and there's a massive investor backlash. 2 times in the scene
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing
- ▶ 23:01 Cristiano Amon So, uh, uh, Orkut wasn't the social media that won, ended up being Facebook, and then, and then later Instagram.