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Can NVIDIA Keep Its Lead? — With Anissa Gardizy, Max Cherney, and Lauren Goode
- ▶ 7:26 Lauren Goode It was in the back of my car and, um, downtown San Francisco.
The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen
- ▶ 14:38 Dallas Dolen Of all the, of all the places to be here in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 Alex Kantrowitz She she spent her life here in San Francisco, San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:02 Alex Kantrowitz San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 0:44 Alex Kantrowitz We were the last actually in San Francisco.
- ▶ 48:46 Lauren Goode My back, my backpack was in my, it was my gym bag.
- ▶ 1:16:20 Dallas Dolen Of all the, of all the places to be here in San Francisco. 6 times in the scene
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 54:02 Alex Kantrowitz All right, Ranjan, we'll see you next week in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI
- ▶ 1:29 Alex Kantrowitz I'm actually, so, so I'm about to fly out to San Francisco for, um, well, I thought it was gonna be WWDC.
- ▶ 54:35 Alex Kantrowitz Sunday, fly to San Francisco, only to not be let into WWDC. 3 times in the scene
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 39:38 Alex Kantrowitz All right, um, let's go to break, but before we go to break, uh, good news, Ranjan is going to be joining us in person for the Big Technology AI Summit in San Francisco on June 18th.
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 1:07 Alex Kantrowitz And in fact, uh, I showed up to San Francisco in May, 2015.
- ▶ 45:28 Alex Kantrowitz So I, I moved to San Francisco in May, 2015, um, and I think I had my first week on the job, second week on the job, you stepped down.
- ▶ 49:38 Alex Kantrowitz Um, the vibes in SF feel pretty frantic right now.
Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
- ▶ 28:36 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, we're hosting an event here in San Francisco on June 18th, and
Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
- ▶ 38:46 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, we conducted that interview this week in San Francisco.
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 16:11 Joanna Stern Like you're closing the door, and so when you start taking Waymo's, probably if we lived in San Francisco, or if I lived in San Francisco, or LA, or Phoenix, I may not have that, that, that habit. 2 times in the scene
The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- ▶ 16:10 Alex Kantrowitz In San Francisco, and Dario Amadei, the chief executive of Anthropik, was on stage, and here is what he said, according to the New York Times.
- ▶ 35:00 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but before we go to break, um, I want to talk a little bit about our AI summit that we have in San Francisco on June. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 37:05 Alex Kantrowitz Early this morning, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also made threats at our San Francisco headquarters.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 38:00 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, well we're, we gotta go to a break, but as long as we're on the way to the break, I want to let folks watching at home know that you and I are going to be talking again June 18th here in San Francisco at SFJAZZ.
Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin
- ▶ 31:11 Alex Kantrowitz I was still in San Francisco.
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 6:44 Alex Kantrowitz Being in SF is like being in Wuhan before the pandemic.
- ▶ 39:25 Olivia Moore Some of those founders do move to SF just because of the, the talent density.
Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 39:51 Sridhar Ramaswamy When he came to San Francisco, he moved from New York, and then he started his job on Tuesday.
- ▶ 51:51 Sridhar Ramaswamy There's actually a company that's based in, uh, in, in Brooklyn, uh, and San Francisco that is, um, uh, that, that, that we work with.
The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
- ▶ 39:03 Alex Kantrowitz On Friday, we had Stephen Morris, the, uh, San Francisco Bureau Chief of the Financial Times on, and we were talking about, like, when you think about these numbers, uh, the question is, where is the money going to come from?
The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- ▶ 0:51 Alex Kantrowitz And joining us today is San Francisco Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, Stephen Morris.
- ▶ 9:04 Stephen Morris But in San Francisco, I'm sure you hear it in the bubble chamber, you know, if you follow an account called Overheard San Francisco, there's a joke going around.
- ▶ 24:27 Alex Kantrowitz And we're back here on Big Technology Podcast with Stephen Morris, the San Francisco Bureau Chief at the Financial Times.
- ▶ 54:21 Stephen Morris Uh, we've got a great team here in San Francisco.
AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
- ▶ 16:54 Ranjan Roy On that, I saw, like, a bunch of posts around how, like, the wealth creation in San Francisco because of the upcoming string of IPOs from the Anthropics and then open AIs of the world will be, like, unlike anything ever seen, housing…
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- ▶ 26:33 Reed Albergotti I mean, it drives you from San Francisco to like other anywhere, basically in Northern California with barely ever having to touch the wheel.
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- ▶ 39:00 Jim Cramer I go out to San Francisco and I have my daughter join me.
Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
- ▶ 2:53 Ellen Huet So I'll start by sharing a little bit of like my own personal perspective on this, which is for many years, I lived in a, you know, communal, you would, I would call it either communal living or like a co-living house in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I, I know I've spent a lot of time in San Francisco, more than six years living there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:25 Ellen Huet Um, the book that I wrote empire of orgasm is the story of a company called one taste, which was started in San Francisco in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:55 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, it's, it sort of sounds like these people, the people, you know, I've lived in, I mean, I'm using Silicon Valley as a broader term for San Francisco and, and, um, the Valley itself.
- ▶ 37:50 Alex Kantrowitz In San Francisco who don't work in tech, believe it or not.
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…
Is the AI Boom About to Break Security? — With Grady Summers, CEO of Netwrix
- ▶ 21:25 Grady Summers And there's so much money in it now as someone who's been going to like the RSA conference out in San Francisco for decades.
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 0:13 Alex Kantrowitz And San Francisco goes nine, nine, six.
- ▶ 1:41 Alex Kantrowitz And a decade later, I mean, I was doing it, uh, last, last decade in San Francisco, uh, a decade later, it doesn't really register as much.
- ▶ 48:26 Alex Kantrowitz Before we get out of here, uh, this week, we should talk about nine, nine, six in San Francisco. 6 times in the scene
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 21:18 Alex Kantrowitz I watched, uh, you have a talk at the Semaphore tech event in San Francisco.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- ▶ 0:45 Alex Kantrowitz And he's here with us in studio at Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco.
- ▶ 40:35 Alex Kantrowitz So what was it like growing up in San Francisco? 2 times in the scene
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 0:30 Alex Kantrowitz Stephen Morris is the San Francisco Bureau Chief at the Financial Times and is here to speak with us about everything OpenAI, GPT-V, and we might even cover some Tesla earnings.
- ▶ 1:54 Stephen Morris If that was the right call, this very much has consumed, uh, Silicon Valley and San Francisco recently with speculation about, will we actually see it this time?
- ▶ 22:27 Alex Kantrowitz He's the San Francisco Bureau Chief at the Financial Times.
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat
- ▶ 9:43 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, there are people here in the valley, in San Francisco, OpenAI, Anthropic,
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 27:08 Alex Kantrowitz I pinned it to my Twitter profile, went to sleep in San Francisco,
- ▶ 34:33 Aaron Levie Um, one, one cool thing, actually maybe just a small anecdote, one cool thing is, um, Waymo just, uh, arrived in, uh, where I live in, in Silicon Valley in the peninsula, and, um, and you know, everybody in, in, in downtown SF has already…
$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
- ▶ 1:09 Ranjan Roy I'm in a San Francisco hotel room right now, but I regret to inform you.
- ▶ 47:08 Alex Kantrowitz So, uh, I'll just read the story from Cron Four, which is a local San Francisco news site.
The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- ▶ 20:04 Alex Kantrowitz You hosted a tech event or yeah, tech event in San Francisco last month.
- ▶ 22:19 Alex Kantrowitz A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropics use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under US copyright law.
- ▶ 59:10 Reed Albergotti So it's like, I mean, the Waymo's in San Francisco are, you know, they're just taking over.
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 0:59 Alex Kantrowitz So I do want to say, for those listening, watching, uh, I brought all the proper equipment to record normal podcasts, uh, this week from San Francisco, and this is the third I'm doing on the influencer mic, uh, but I forgot one cable, so.
Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
- ▶ 28:30 Alex Kantrowitz For, for reporting on this stuff, it's important to look outside of New York and, and San Francisco.
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 32:41 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, or one of Anthropik's co-founders was at a Semaphore event in San Francisco this week, and I'm probably going to write about this, so I don't want to give too much away, but he talked about how, uh, there's an engineer inside Anthropik…
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
- ▶ 37:49 Ranjan Roy Well, I mean, speaking of self-driving, uh, I was in San Francisco last week again and, uh, rode another Waymo, my second ride, and, and Waymo announced that they just surpassed a quarter million paid rides. 2 times in the scene
Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- ▶ 24:42 Saagar Enjeti I started interviewing him even, I think, before All In because he was starting to get involved in these elections in San Francisco and others.
- ▶ 43:54 unnamed speaker San Francisco and Austin. 2 times in the scene
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
- ▶ 5:25 Marc Benioff If you go and talk to any major hospital or medical institution, I don't, you know, I work with UCSF in San Francisco.
Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
- ▶ 45:03 Josh Brown It's, you, you have to be eating mushrooms in San Francisco, um, you know, in a dorm room conversation at two in the morning to think that this is where things should be going.
Sparking Net New Innovation At Massive Scale — With LG's Sokwoo Rhee
- ▶ 0:36 Alex Kantrowitz It's gonna be next week in San Francisco, September 25th and September 26th at, I think, the coolest venue in the entire city, the Palace of Fine Arts.
- ▶ 30:54 Alex Kantrowitz But, um, I'm so, I'm so excited to be part of the event, uh, next, next week in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 3:42 Parmy Olson I, there were, I, I just met people in San Francisco last week who were like, yeah, I, I still haven't been able to try that yet.
- ▶ 18:15 Parmy Olson Um, and I think, you know, coming for, so I'm based in London, and I hear a lot more, I'm not, not being based in San Francisco, I'm not in the Silicon Valley bubble, so being in London, I hear a lot more of kind of the rhetoric from…
How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari
- ▶ 28:53 Johann Hari I think a lot about a guy, an interview called Jeff Parker, lovely guy, 67 year old, retired lighting engineer in San Francisco, who was very severely obese.
NVIDIA's Auto Play and the Future of Autonomous Driving — With Danny Shapiro
- ▶ 2:03 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, and I had experience in San Francisco last summer where I spent a bunch of time riding in Waymo's and then riding in Cruises, and we had, ah, Cruz, the Cruz CEO at the time, Kyle Vogt, come on the show and talk about how his plan was…
Box CEO Aaron Levie — Audience Q&A: AI Agents, AI Talent, Evolution of Work
- ▶ 16:02 Aaron Levie And this is, this is why, this is also why I'm just like extremely optimistic is, is, um, uh, you know, uh, uh, as we, as we heard earlier, like if you're in SF or you're in New York, let's say like the,
- ▶ 17:56 Alex Kantrowitz It's so cool to see so many people here, many subscribers of big technology, and some people that we're meeting for the first time, and this is going to be a tradition that we're going to start here in New York and, and around the world,…
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 23:28 Suhail Doshi For like a jacket that I'm wearing, you know, I went to, I went this weekend to the, uh, the, uh, the de Young, and I had this, uh, like sort of fashion, uh, San Francisco fashion exhibit, and there's this, you know, powered by Snapchat,…
Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
- ▶ 45:15 Ryan Petersen Uh, he used to be San Francisco's DA, so we know him well. 3 times in the scene
How Generative AI Is Changing Travel — With Priceline's Marty Brodbeck
- ▶ 6:02 Marty Brodbeck So I'm planning to be in San Francisco tomorrow at 10 a.m. 2 times in the scene
The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
- ▶ 37:21 Rob Copeland One of the, the, you know, I, you know, I used to live in San Francisco for a few years.
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 21:09 Alex Kantrowitz Not only that operating in San Francisco, testing in L.A. and, and we have crews testing on the freeways. 2 times in the scene
SBF's Last Stand — With Molly White
- ▶ 34:42 Alex Kantrowitz Not only that, they named stadiums, uh, after FTX, down in crypto capital of the world, Miami, and, uh, you know, I recall walking around downtown San Francisco, and I still lived there, and you couldn't go five feet without seeing Sam's…
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year
- ▶ 0:19 Alex Kantrowitz I've been tooling around San Francisco in self-driving cars for the past couple of weeks, and I can't wait to talk to you about the experience and bringing on someone who can tell us just how quickly this stuff is going to make its way…
- ▶ 0:50 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I was a tech reporter in San Francisco, fit, 2015, 20 16, when everyone said this stuff is right around the corner
- ▶ 9:17 Alex Kantrowitz And if you drive in an Uber or Lyft in San Francisco, the, these are tough roads. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Kyle Vogt What's the expansion on public roads currently in, in Austin and actually also in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:16 Kyle Vogt And once we felt like we had line of sight to, to large scale operations in San Francisco, we had to totally reorient how the company worked to set it up to scale to multiple cities. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:17 Kyle Vogt And so what we did in San Francisco is we collected data, uh, from human drivers to start with.
Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
- ▶ 48:21 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I'm in San Francisco right now here for a visit and hopped in a Waymo a week ago.
Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
- ▶ 43:44 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I think I'm seeing more progress in self-driving cars now than in, like, maybe the past year than, because I was in San Francisco, 2015, 2016. 2 times in the scene
Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain
- ▶ 2:14 Simon Balmain I tend to be up quite late because I primarily had been working with people in the U S and working on products in San Francisco and on the West coast.
- ▶ 4:17 Alex Kantrowitz Smaller office than in, in New York, San Francisco, but I imagine you're all connected digitally.
- ▶ 10:11 Simon Balmain Um, he did, uh, he did say when he went into the San Francisco office that that number was not accurate and he didn't know where it came from.
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen On Product, Competition, And Transparency
- ▶ 57:35 Frances Haugen Um, ah, but I live in San Francisco, so like, I have lots of people who talk about crypto all the time. 4 times in the scene
Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
- ▶ 4:32 Erik Brynjolfsson We drove up Route one oh one up to San Francisco and turned around.
Andrew Callaghan of All Gas No Brakes Goes Independent
- ▶ 11:09 Alex Kantrowitz No, I mean, I'm, I'm a tech journalist, but I'm in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:02 Andrew Callaghan Like in San Francisco and Seattle.