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AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
- ▶ 6:49 Ranjan Roy Controversy, backlash around people, and, and I think it's going to be, inform the whole world of AI devices that Sam and OpenAI and everyone else is talking about.
- ▶ 11:38 Alex Kantrowitz This is also going back to my conversation, uh, with Sam, uh, last week.
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- ▶ 2:18 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Sam Altman gets fired, reinstated, uh,
- ▶ 9:44 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, the moment where Facebook and, I mean, we've already seen some of it with the recruiting, but Facebook and OpenAI's battle just explodes out into the open, and maybe Zuck and Sam are at odds with each other, and, um, Meta might even…
- ▶ 14:00 Alex Kantrowitz And it was interesting how, uh, when Google released Gemini three, before the code red happened, the underappreciated comment within that company was, uh, Sam saying there are going to be some, you know, I guess like, what did he say?
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- ▶ 27:23 Jim Cramer Sam Altman is 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- ▶ 0:02 Alex Kantrowitz We'll go deep after my conversation with Sam Altman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:01 Alex Kantrowitz Um, to me, one of the most ambitious things that Sam mentioned was, uh, memory and how OpenAI plans to build real memory, uh, meaning that the bots will, will remember you and have this, um, real understanding of your life. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:07 Alex Kantrowitz Also, when Sam was saying the things that they will not do, he said, we're not going to have our AI try to convince people that they should be in an exclusive romantic relationship with them. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Alex Kantrowitz And here's how he, um, here's how Sam phrased it using, uh, using messaging apps as an example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:43 Alex Kantrowitz And this was also an interesting thing that I, I wanted to speak with Sam about because we're at this point where it seems like there's model parity in some ways, or at least the models are close enough that a lot of people can't tell the… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, one interesting point on enterprise, Sam says the same way that personalization to a user is very important, uh, to consumers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:02 Alex Kantrowitz Um, so this is, this is what Altman said about the, uh, the growth curve of revenue. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:27 Ranjan Roy Could it be Johnny Ive and Sam together?
- ▶ 30:29 Alex Kantrowitz And, and he basically said, like, we, we, I'm just gonna paraphrase Sam's response. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:54 Alex Kantrowitz And, um, and definitely encourage you to check out if you haven't the, uh, Sam Altman interview that was just published yesterday.
OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
- ▶ 0:29 Alex Kantrowitz We are going to go inside a meeting with open AI, Sam Altman and top editors and media CEOs in New York to tell you what open AI is planning for.
- ▶ 1:58 Alex Kantrowitz On Monday around noontime, and there at Rosemary's Midtown, a fine establishment near Grand Central Station in New York City, Sam Altman had lunch with editors and CEOs from places like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:08 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Altman had previously indicated users, uh, over 18 would be allowed to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT.
- ▶ 35:36 Alex Kantrowitz I have to tell you, my, I'm, I am taking the, uh, the Sam Altman approach to Bob Iger and, and not the Elon Musk.
- ▶ 42:31 Ranjan Roy I think that to me, that's like the biggest thing that I think everyone piled into, and actually if we are to believe Sam Altman earlier and
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 19:19 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, recently, as last month, Sam Altman and Johnny Ive, who've 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:57 Alex Kantrowitz Speaking of these lofty introduction videos reminds me of the salmon, Johnny Ive.
- ▶ 37:23 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a code red to marshal more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors. 4 times in the scene
Zendesk's Adrian McDermott: AI's Customer Service Potential, Adoption Cycle, Scale vs. Orchestration
- ▶ 32:36 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and so I think something that Sam Altman has talked about as one of his favorite releases, but then, uh, on an enterprise side, I think it's also quite valuable.
Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
- ▶ 17:10 Alex Kantrowitz We have, you know, Sam Altman and Johnny Ive working on a new device
Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable?
- ▶ 7:49 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman also joined. 2 times in the scene
Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
- ▶ 10:46 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, I think Sam Altman has said that.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 0:27 Alex Kantrowitz Because we are going to cover how Google has come and effectively equaled OpenAI's technology, causing Sam Altman to write a memo saying the vibes might be bad for a while.
- ▶ 2:25 Alex Kantrowitz It's currently at the top of the LM arena leaderboards, and even Sam Altman came out and said, Hey, good model. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:44 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI does leap back forward in some, I mean, Sam didn't say like we're behind on everything, but there are some areas that he says that Google has surpassed us in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:26 Ranjan Roy Sam Altman, again, going back to that Gerstner interview, started, you know, he says we're a cloud business, we're a consumer.
- ▶ 32:35 unnamed speaker This actually, like, again, in terms of rough vibes for Sam, the marketing launch for Gemini three was incredible.
How Generative AI Could Change Shopping Forever — With Rubail Birwadker
- ▶ 28:59 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, even Sam Altman talks about how some of the investment might be a little too frothy.
Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg
- ▶ 1:13 Alex Kantrowitz You are advising Sam Altman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:25 Sir Nick Clegg And you know, if you're, if you're Sal Maltman or Darryl Amodei or any of that, you're going, wow, I'm sitting on this, I'm sitting on this rocket, you know, this rocket ship 2 times in the scene
AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
- ▶ 7:13 Alex Kantrowitz On Sam Altman's ability to deliver revenue and affect maybe profitability growth for open AI.
- ▶ 15:58 Gil Luria So for them to say, oh, we're gonna have a hundred billion dollars of revenue by 2027, which Sam Altman just did, is completely disingenuous. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:02 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI just delivers what Sam Altman promises. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- ▶ 5:45 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I don't think that the US taxpayers should be backstopping the company's debt though, because, and Sam Altman in a follow-up made this clear, if they fail, you'll still have Google, you'll still have Anthropic, you'll have many others… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:04 Ranjan Roy But I think the reason this is so salient right now is I think because it comes on the heels of, I think it was last week, the Brad Gerstner altimeter interview where Sam Altman, where he asked him around, you know, you're only making… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:07 Ranjan Roy If it is, we are an AI cloud business, a consumer devices business, which Sam Altman said as part of that Gerstner interview, and now we're also a drug, a pharma business because we're going to be taking on some kind of risk around drug,…
- ▶ 25:59 Alex Kantrowitz So, um, Sam Altman says, what we do think might make sense is governments building and owning their own AI infrastructure. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:38 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, that had Ilya Sitskever, the former OpenAI chief scientist, um, his, uh, testimony about what happened inside OpenAI before Sam Altman was fired. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 5:32 Alex Kantrowitz There's talk that it's going to be sixty billion, although Brad Gerstner in a podcast with Sam Altman floated two hundred billion and Sam didn't seem to flinch. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, and that's the, that is one of the points that Sam made on this podcast that he would welcome the scrutiny from the public markets. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:06 Alex Kantrowitz and it is going to be very interesting to see whether opening, I can actually execute on this device that Sam Altman is building with Johnny Ive. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:32 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman has positioned his company to the point where it can only work if they achieve AGI. 3 times in the scene
Why Getting Data Right Could Be The Key To Effective AI Projects — With Charles Sansbury
- ▶ 1:23 Alex Kantrowitz Even Sam Altman, for instance.
OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman plots out OpenAI's next three years, big tech earnings come in, and there's a new humanoid robot in town. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:16 Ranjan Roy Because remember, Sam gave Satya a pretty sweetheart deal here, and all he had to ever do was just say AGI and everything would have gone his way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:26 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, again, and just some, so, so Altman, uh, did tweet out, he did this live stream this week. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:45 Alex Kantrowitz And so it is interesting to see on the ground how different this is, uh, compared to that memo that Sam Altman wrote. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:04 Ranjan Roy So, well, that's why Sam's doing it for the public good.
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 20:14 Ranjan Roy Like those first few days, I feel like Sam Altman was all over there.
- ▶ 27:57 Alex Kantrowitz I like what he said, that he's actually much more optimistic than most of the skeptics, but also some of his realism compared to, like, Sam Altman saying that this stuff is going to cure cancer in his most recent blog post, um, I think is,…
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 0:29 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman has relented and allowed ChatGPT to get spicy with adults. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Sam Altman puts a tweet out this week on Tuesday. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:52 Ranjan Roy The top of mind is Elon Musk or Sam Altman in erotica.
- ▶ 38:49 Ranjan Roy And well, Sam said they have new tools.
- ▶ 55:08 Alex Kantrowitz We cannot predict Sam's, uh, Sam Altman's tweets, so, uh, he will lead us on our merry way next week.
Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- ▶ 11:02 Alex Kantrowitz If you ask Sam Altman, he'll say yes.
- ▶ 28:43 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, this is from Sam Altman when he was talking about, uh, the Nvidia investment. 5 times in the scene
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 6:55 Alex Kantrowitz In June, Sam Altman said AGI will be more of a gentle singularity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:54 Ranjan Roy I think it's fair to say that, like, even though the Sams and the Dario still present themselves as kind of renegade, uh, you know, like us against the world taking on these kinds of challenges, these companies are becoming corporations.
- ▶ 50:53 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, OpenAI said it wasn't, uh, Sam Altman basically said he was surprised at the, uh, reaction or that OpenAI wasn't fully aware of what the reaction would be. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 0:07 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman and Johnny Ive run into some turbulence in their quest to build an AI god device.
- ▶ 0:40 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, at this point, we also have Sam Altman and Johnny Ive running into some bumps as they begin to build their AI device and meta and apple, and maybe Amazon and Google all are basically on a collision course to build the same thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32 Alex Kantrowitz So let's begin, of course, with, uh, with Sam Altman. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:03 M.G. Siegler The reason I wrote, you know, again, off of riffing off of Sam's comments, because the only thing that I could think about, you know, in my head of like what they were 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 M.G. Siegler And I've written a little bit about this, like the, even before, um, yeah, the riffing off of Sam's newest post, it was the, the main thing I've been sort of dancing around and finally was able to put this down, but it's like, it really… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:31 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman and Johnny Ives attempt to build an AI device, but why that is running into trouble because of a lack of, among other things, compute. 2 times in the scene
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- ▶ 3:03 Alex Kantrowitz I watched one of Sam Altman on the release day, uh, running around opening headquarters with a bullhorn telling them to get to the live stream in the first few seconds.
- ▶ 9:21 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman two weeks ago, we need seven trillion dollars and 10 gigawatts to cure cancer. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:50 Max Zeff I mean, when Sam Altman was fired a few years ago, that was, you know, kind of a key consideration, uh, there.
OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
- ▶ 4:03 Ranjan Roy And it is notable that, uh, Sam Altman and Jensen Huang apparently negotiated the deal with no banks involved. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:04 Alex Kantrowitz Of course, it's from Sam Altman. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Ranjan Roy Sam had something.
Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 40:04 Aaron Levie Well, I, I think it makes sense if, if you, uh, believe like I do, and certainly others, you know, Jensen, you know, clearly Sam, uh, even Elon, uh, I think would believe that this is the single biggest technology, uh, uh, that, that…
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 25:56 Alex Kantrowitz The GPT five launch was so botched that Sam Altman apologized for it with increasing attention as to whether the pace of business AI investment is actually sustainable.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
- ▶ 26:22 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman would say that large language models are just like the calculator, but there is, there has been research, including some research from Microsoft that shows that the, the reliance on LLMs can, uh, decrease the ability to think…
Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
- ▶ 16:38 Alex Kantrowitz Um, interestingly, uh, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and all of them basically like, you know, they, they took turns going around the table, praise, praising the president.
Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
- ▶ 41:57 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman very happy, very clearly is not happy with the New York Times.
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
- ▶ 2:46 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Sam in a press call said that GPT five is a pretty significant step over four.
- ▶ 8:49 Alex Kantrowitz And I have to say, I've lost a bet on this show because I was listening to Sam on the Theo Vaughn show. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I think Sam mentioned this on the media call, but GPT-III, he said, was high school level intelligence, GPT-IV, maybe the level of a college student, and GPT-V, an expert.
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 30:49 Alex Kantrowitz Well, last week on the show, I said, I think that once they release this, Sam Altman is going to call it AGI. 4 times in the scene
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 3:55 M.G. Siegler He's trying to differentiate, and again, the high level of the memo itself, it sort of is almost like a Sam Altman memo when I was ready first. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:27 M.G. Siegler And then that's sort of using some of the arguments that are out there from Sam Altman and others against them, right?
- ▶ 31:22 M.G. Siegler And I also think at an even higher level, part of the reason why I would imagine that you even saw Sam Altman sort of pivot his talking points from AGI to super intelligence at one point in various memos that he's written himself was… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:21 M.G. Siegler They, that Sam Altman didn't want to go down the path of advertising.
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 1:28 Alex Kantrowitz Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, says, uh, that they are going to be releasing GPT-V. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:12 Alex Kantrowitz I always, when I read this one person who said it was really great, I'm always like, that's Sam Altman.
- ▶ 13:38 Stephen Morris And now, you know, you have Musk and Altman out there saying that they can feel the AGI on almost a daily basis. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:52 Alex Kantrowitz With Sam Altman and President Trump to announce the Stargate project, the newly formed company charged with making it happen has yet to complete a single deal for a data center. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:06 Stephen Morris That's why you're seeing, um, companies like Microsoft and Google, uh, bring old nuclear power plants online and talk and strike deals with like these mini fusion reactor companies of which Sam Altman used to be a major owner of one as…
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- ▶ 11:09 Ed Zitron Sam Olman would love people to believe that.
- ▶ 33:05 Ed Zitron The idea that TechMeme had Sam Altman's gentle singularity 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:48 Ed Zitron Sam Altman is a genius for that, and he's also like a business idiot whisperer.
- ▶ 55:08 Ed Zitron You think that Sam Altman, if they had managed to make this profitable, would not go out there and tell everyone. 5 times in the scene
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