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Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 49:53 Ranjan Roy This is one of the dumbest corporate espionage things I've ever seen, even though, even the, the Uber Waymo stuff back in the day had a little bit more, uh, like cloak and dagger elements to it.
The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen
- ▶ 2:07 Alex Kantrowitz And we also know that Uber, of course, spent their entire budget in less than half a year.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 2:35 Alex Kantrowitz Delivering one co-pilot is obviously the right approach and messaging, and yes, that puts Microsoft in the camp with Meta, X, Coinbase, Airbnb, Uber, Snap, Spotify, even Disney is going all in after the elusive super app concept, and…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- ▶ 7:40 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, and when you go back to some of the early attempts at this, there was this, like, move that OpenAI had to let you call an Uber within ChatGPT.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 38:29 Ranjan Roy Uber surprised that they blew through their entire year's AI budget in a quarter.
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:03:50 Alex Kantrowitz And we also know that Uber, of course, spent their entire budget in less than half a year.
- ▶ 3:10:03 Alex Kantrowitz And it followed a long line of companies that have tried to get you to take action within chat, but it never really took off.
Is Unstructured Data The Key To Successful AI Deployments?
- ▶ 1:25 Alex Kantrowitz You have the Uber COO 2 times in the scene
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 51:10 Ranjan Roy And it was like, based on your location and a typical wait for an Uber at this time.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 10:25 Alex Kantrowitz Let's say OpenAI was calling Codex a super app because they were bringing ChatGPT and coding and a browser together, and that's not your traditional super app, which is like what you would have in China, which is like one app that does…
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 2:36 Alex Kantrowitz That could include Uber, it could include Meta, it could include Microsoft, DoorDash, that have talked about, um, the fact that they are, you know, AI first, but that the spending of tokens has gotten way out of hand, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:18 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and it brings me to this, like, uh, story in Business Insider that Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI. 7 times in the scene
Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
- ▶ 6:20 Ranjan Roy I think they can't just turn, I guess the biggest difference is that theory kind of held where there was the Uber, which again, it took them like six years after IPO-ing to actually become truly profitable at like a unit economics level.
- ▶ 27:23 Alex Kantrowitz We've heard from Uber, for instance, talking about how they've like exhausted their cloud budget in four months.
How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe
- ▶ 19:46 David Plouffe Um, spent, you know, a few years, uh, in-house at Uber and, and still work with them. 2 times in the scene
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 7:56 Alex Kantrowitz Like Uber did, right?
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 16:02 Joanna Stern You get out of the car, and you know, we're on the east coast, we don't take a lot of Waymo's, so we're in Ubers a lot, and so you're natural, you're getting out of taxi, you say thanks so much, right? 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan
- ▶ 19:21 Mark Cuban I, on Shark Tank, it was like people would have the next Uber, the next this, the next that, right?
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 49:30 Ranjan Roy It was the Uber mentality as well.
The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 1:09 Emil Michael I think, um, one of the analogies I like to draw is having been at Uber, and you look at an autonomous vehicle, and people were scared of Uber from taxis, and then they were scared of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:21 Emil Michael And so, I mean, the whole tech industry, when I was there at Uber in 2016, 17. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 27:25 Alex Kantrowitz Super app was like, oh, you open an app, you can do the lottery, you can do Uber, you can do payments, you can read the news.
OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- ▶ 29:39 Liz Hoffman We've had, um, we had Dara from Uber on, kind of talking about what a driver, you know, the, the future of Uber is, as he tells it, essentially tucking the robo-taxis in at night. 2 times in the scene
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 19:46 Alex Kantrowitz Like, remember, like a couple years ago, there was all this hype, like, you'll be able to order an Uber right from ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 8:43 Ranjan Roy I didn't even realize this is Emil Michael of Uber fame, right?
OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 12:12 Aaron Levie Similar to how Uber, you know, had to buy their way into many markets unprofitably on a region basis, and then over time, you know, it's now a wildly profitable business because they now have obviously a very strong network effect and…
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 39:12 M.G. Siegler But Uber, Uber is a great example, right?
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft
- ▶ 25:30 Alex Kantrowitz I was just in, uh, in Dallas and, uh, I got picked up in a Uber Tesla and with a human driver, but I said, Hey, can you, can you flick that thing on?
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market
- ▶ 24:05 Jim Cramer I'm betting on a Waymo-like bartender, meaning that we like it much more than the, than a Uber, and he said it's gonna happen within the next two, three years.
Communal Living, Sex, And Silicon Valley's Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet
- ▶ 18:03 Ellen Huet Um, Market Street right across from Uber, right across from Twitter.
AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
How Enterprises Actually Get ROI From AI — With Globant CEO Martin Migoya
- ▶ 21:52 Martin Migoya And then someone invented social on that, you know, and then someone invented, you know, an application like Uber.
Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
- ▶ 13:32 Alex Kantrowitz Call an Uber, book a ticket.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 25:05 Ranjan Roy Um, and this kind of makes the like, 20 tens VC subsidized Uber rides look like, you know, uh, a quaint memory where we're just able to get all this benefit as computer as consumers, um, and generate our Sora videos.
- ▶ 47:40 Alex Kantrowitz You can call an Uber from, you know, your echo device.
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 5:55 Amjad Masad Uh, I was hearing a story today of an Uber driver that is starting to make an app with Replit.
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
- ▶ 24:00 Brad Lightcap Um, and we get a lot of feedback from companies like Uber and Amgen and Harvey and Cursor, um, uh, lovable, uh, you know, um, uh,
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 12:59 Ranjan Roy I mean, this is like the mid-twenty-tens when we're all getting free Uber rides.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 42:01 M.G. Siegler I'll give you one, um, just example of like, you know, an last generation of, of company that sort of this, this, uh, played out at that, you know, that I was a small part of, which was, you know, around an Uber investment where it's like,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:45 M.G. Siegler It ended up obviously working out that way, but there still were other elements that were key to what they were doing, including things like Uber eats, right?
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- ▶ 58:22 Reed Albergotti And an Uber with their thing and you, you screw up once and like that could just end the whole thing. 2 times in the scene
Amazon Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
- ▶ 19:16 Jamil Ghani To using, uh, the other prime benefits, shopping, video, music, et cetera, et cetera, to doing things out in the quote unquote real world, book you an Uber, uh, you know, uh, get you a, uh, uh, handy person to come to your house to fix…
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 33:42 Grace Shao And I think, um, the Uber founder said this on Alden podcast, even quite recently, like a couple months ago, he was like, 2 times in the scene
How Amazon Rebuilt Alexa From The Ground Up
- ▶ 1:56 Alex Kantrowitz It allows you to take action, like book a table, call an Uber.
- ▶ 33:20 Alex Kantrowitz Things that we're seeing in product, and it's kind of interesting because Alexa's had skills for a while, like call me an Uber, and now you can use Alexa to call you an Uber.
- ▶ 49:02 Panos Panay With Uber.
The Future of AI and Entrepreneurship, According Two Leading Innovators
- ▶ 17:25 Sokwoo Rhee You need, maybe, if all these vendors and companies work together for one single app, that can do everything, like that can do Uber, that can do Netflix, then you just use one app.
Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
- ▶ 3:00 Casey Newton I never thought Uber was going to turn a profit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:12 Casey Newton I've talked to so many people who, after they take a Waymo, they say, if I, if this was available in my town, I would never take another Uber. 3 times in the scene
Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
- ▶ 2:00 Alex Kantrowitz And this is manifesting itself in trillions of dollars being thrown at, of course, the companies that are doing all this automation and behind all this AI, Facebook, Google, Uber, Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Alibaba, the list goes on.
Russia Funds Tenet Media YouTubers
- ▶ 15:19 Ranjan Roy I actually, when I was in Taiwan, one of my Uber drivers had 10 phones on the dashboard and I asked him and he said he just scrolls and likes TikTok videos.
How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer
- ▶ 7:33 Ben Plummer Even if you just think about something relatively simple, like planning a trip or a holiday or something like that sort of starts with a very conceptual arc of where do you want to go, the type of experience you want to have, and then…
- ▶ 17:06 Ben Plummer Yeah, so we, um, we sort of manage the end-to-end life cycle of the, of finding those people, breaking down their skills and capabilities, think about them sort of like badges and certifications of all the different things that you could…
NVIDIA's Auto Play and the Future of Autonomous Driving — With Danny Shapiro
- ▶ 34:23 Danny Shapiro It's like, you can't, you can't get an Uber everywhere today.
Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- ▶ 32:01 Peter Diamandis He goes, no, no, I lost it in my Uber on the Y here.
Box CEO Aaron Levie — Audience Q&A: AI Agents, AI Talent, Evolution of Work
- ▶ 2:37 Aaron Levie Uber.
Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- ▶ 45:54 Alex Kantrowitz Like, I'm just thinking about even the App Store, like, you know, a lot of people's phones have an Uber and a DoorDash and all these other things.
Yubo Wants To Replace Performative Social Media With Real Time Social Discovery
- ▶ 15:55 Alex Kantrowitz You don't even have to go to the restaurant anymore cause you can order in and on the greets.
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 24:42 Kara Swisher It's not Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:27 Kara Swisher It's like saying when the iPhone came out in 2007, would you have predicted Uber?
The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
- ▶ 22:20 Alex Kantrowitz Is it like an Uber driver where you get a certain low rating and you're booted off the app? 4 times in the scene
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 22:01 Brian McCullough I mean, Waymo and Cruise could become big companies, but is that going to be, that's almost ancillary to tech in the same way that Uber, in a sense, is ancillary?
- ▶ 34:12 Brian McCullough So like what, what is the Airbnb or the Uber of this paradigm shift?
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year
- ▶ 9:17 Alex Kantrowitz And if you drive in an Uber or Lyft in San Francisco, the, these are tough roads.
- ▶ 12:22 Alex Kantrowitz Where, it doesn't seem like, like Uber or Lyft really have a future at all. 3 times in the scene
How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 9:33 Alex Kantrowitz We looked at Uber. 2 times in the scene
Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 0:21 Alex Kantrowitz He's one of the most influential voices in the AI field, the founder of Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber.
- ▶ 34:41 Alex Kantrowitz He's the author of Rebooting AI and founder of Geometric Intelligence, which was acquired by Uber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:10 Alex Kantrowitz Also the founder of Geometric Intelligence, AI company that Uber acquired.
Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
- ▶ 40:50 Alex Kantrowitz And, uh, you know, it's kind of like,
Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
- ▶ 11:22 Max Chafkin I think a lot of the kind of, um, some of this kind of cult of disruption stuff that we see in, in, in Silicon Valley, probably best epitomized by like Uber or something, I think kind of has its roots in right wing activist politics, the…