Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
24 episodes in 2023
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22m Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger
In this interview with Alex Kantrowitz, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger outlines the company's comprehensive strategy to win the AI chip race through hybrid CPU-GPU architectures, dedicated Gaudi ac…
15 statements 5 featured 2 assessments
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15m OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
In an in-depth interview with TIME, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reflects on his organization's recent leadership crisis, addresses critical challenges surrounding governance and election disinform…
16 statements 5 featured
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28m How Generative AI Is Changing Travel — With Priceline's Marty Brodbeck
Priceline Chief Technology Officer Marty Brodbeck discusses the company's practical implementation of generative AI across conversational trip planning, checkout optimization, customer suppo…
12 statements 5 featured 1 assessments
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48m Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Alex Kantrowitz hosts journalists Molly White, Ryan Broderick, and Deepa Sitaraman to unpack the ideological conflict between Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism in Silicon Vall…
26 statements 6 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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24m AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
In this Web Summit keynote, tech journalist Alex Kantrowitz presents six bold predictions about the future of artificial intelligence, forecasting a shift from broad chatbots to narrow domai…
16 statements 5 featured 5 assessments
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25m Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
In an emergency podcast episode, tech journalist Alex Kantrowitz and VentureBeat's Sharon Goldman analyze the shocking firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, unpacking the boardroom turmoil, unusu…
7 statements 3 featured 3 assessments
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48m The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Journalist Rob Copeland joins host Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast to expose the reality behind hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Associates, revealing how their…
18 statements 6 featured 10 assessments 1 contradicted
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50m Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
In the inaugural episode of Big Tech War Stories, host Alex Kantrowitz interviews former Google product manager Gaurav Nemade to uncover why Google failed to publicly launch LaMDA, its power…
14 statements 5 featured 1 assessments
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53m Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
In this crossover episode, tech journalist Alex Kantrowitz and Techmeme Ride Home host Brian McCullough unpack the major tech developments of 2023, analyzing Big Tech's post-layoff financial…
13 statements 4 featured 6 assessments
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56m SBF's Last Stand — With Molly White
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz and crypto researcher Molly White analyze the criminal fraud trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, examining the mechani…
14 statements 6 featured 9 assessments
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28m Hamas vs. Israel Rewrites Social Media Norms
Tech journalists Alex Kantrowitz and Reed Albergotti analyze how the Israel-Hamas conflict has tested digital media norms, examining online misinformation, free speech boundaries, cancel cul…
4 statements 2 featured 2 assessments
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40m Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt joins Alex Kantrowitz to discuss the commercial inflection point of autonomous vehicles, detailing multi-ci…
17 statements 7 featured 5 assessments 2 contradicted
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56m A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, author and twelve-year Amazon veteran Kristi Coulter joins Alex Kantrowitz to examine the internal mechanisms, relentless work culture, executi…
16 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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51m Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer
Google DeepMind Chief Business Officer Colin Murdock discusses the quest for Artificial General Intelligence, technical milestones in multimodality and planning, and Google's strategy for tr…
10 statements 3 featured 4 assessments
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49m Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, former Google executive and Snowflake SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy examines Google's turbulent AI reset, the structural disruption of consumer search,…
29 statements 8 featured 6 assessments
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54m Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
In this in-depth interview, AWS executive Matt Wood outlines Amazon's strategic roadmap for generative AI, emphasizing enterprise data privacy, model optionality through Amazon Bedrock, cust…
22 statements 10 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted
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29m How Generative AI Is Already Changing The Communications Field — With EZ Newswire
Host Alex Kantrowitz interviews EZ Newswire co-founders Caitlin Kelly and Neil Shah to explore how purpose-built generative AI workflows and transparent distribution models are revolutionizi…
10 statements 6 featured 2 assessments
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40m ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on Entrepreneurship, AI, and Automation
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott reflects on his career journey from teenage deli owner to enterprise tech leader, discussing the mechanics of corporate reinvention, platform integration, and t…
5 statements 3 featured 1 assessments 1 contradicted
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59m Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
In a live interview with Big Technology podcast host Alex Kantrowitz, Alphabet X CEO Astro Teller demystifies artificial intelligence, unpacks the moonshot innovation methodology, and discus…
26 statements 10 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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43m My Experience Aboard The OceanGate Sub — With David Pogue of CBS
CBS correspondent David Pogue joins Alex Kantrowitz to reflect on his firsthand experience reporting aboard OceanGate's Titan submersible, analyzing Stockton Rush's controversial engineering…
17 statements 8 featured 9 assessments 3 contradicted
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1h 12m Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing
In this extensive interview with Alex Kantrowitz, Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey analyzes the engineering roadmaps and commercial realities of virtual and mixed reality while detai…
43 statements 13 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted
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58m Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus and former Google engineer Blake Lemoine debate the cognitive reality, psychological risks, and societal impact of conversational AI chatbots on the Big Techn…
29 statements 10 featured 6 assessments 3 contradicted
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51m David Friedberg — How Technology Solves Our Climate Crisis
Investor and entrepreneur David Friedberg explains how technological innovation and market-driven economic abundance—rather than moral persuasion or rationing—can resolve global climate chal…
14 statements 5 featured 9 assessments 3 contradicted
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1h 1m Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun, Meta Chief AI Scientist
Host Alex Kantrowitz interviews Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on why contemporary autoregressive language models like ChatGPT cannot achieve human-level intelligence. LeCun advocates fo…
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