Episodes
Six years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
47 episodes in 2024
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56m What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Host Alex Kantrowitz joins clinical psychologist Dr. Rona Novick and parent entrepreneur Jinja Birkenbuehl to examine the impact of digital technology on adolescent mental health and develop…
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1h 10m Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh
In an in-depth interview on the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz speaks with Noland Arbaugh, the first human recipient of Elon Musk's Neuralink implant, exploring his journey fro…
23 statements 9 featured 5 assessments
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55m AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz interviews Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to examine his key AI predictions for 2025. Wang details the geopolitical race to ex…
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40m AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
Recorded live at AWS re:Invent, AWS CEO Matt Garman sits down with Alex Kantrowitz to detail Amazon's multi-layered enterprise AI strategy, spanning custom Trainium 2 silicon, Bedrock's mode…
17 statements 8 featured 4 assessments
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46m Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss how autonomous AI agents, grounded enterprise data architectures, and Agentforce are reshaping workplace productivity,…
17 statements 8 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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59m OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy analyze the shifting tech landscape, evaluating OpenAI's browser aspirations, DOJ antitrust pressure on Google's search monopoly, Apple and Microsoft's generat…
11 statements 3 featured 5 assessments
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51m Rivian's CEO on Elon Musk's Influence, Affordable EVs, and The Grid's Risky Future — W/ RJ Scaringe
In this in-depth interview on the Big Technology Podcast, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe discusses the strategic roadmap for affordable EV models, Rivian's multi-billion-dollar technology joint vent…
20 statements 6 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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56m Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy analyze reports of large language model performance plateaus, the rise of reasoning-focused AI architectures, and practical enterprise market disruptions. They…
19 statements 6 featured 5 assessments
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47m Spotify Co-President Gustav Söderström on their future with Generative AI
Alex Kantrowitz interviews Spotify Co-President Gustav Söderström about how generative artificial intelligence, multi-format media integration, and evolving recommendation architectures are …
22 statements 7 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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50m The Next Gen AI Models: Reliable, Consistent, Trustworthy — With Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Cohere CEO and transformer co-author Aidan Gomez joins Alex Kantrowitz to demystify generative AI hype, arguing that real-world value lies in building reliable, cost-effective models that au…
27 statements 7 featured 2 assessments
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51m The Apple Paradox, Trump’s Impact on Markets, NVIDIA Demand — With Dan Ives and Stephanie Link
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz and market strategists Stephanie Link and Dan Ives analyze mega-cap tech valuations, exploring Apple's AI-driven upgrade c…
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1h 10m Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz interviews financial advisor and author Josh Brown to analyze how societal anxiety over AI and automation fuels Big Tech e…
23 statements 8 featured 8 assessments 1 contradicted
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27m OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
Tech analysts Alex Kantrowitz, Corey, and Ranjan analyze OpenAI's leaked financial projections, examining the company's heavy reliance on consumer ChatGPT subscriptions, staggering compute e…
17 statements 5 featured 9 assessments
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42m Meta's Chief Technology Officer On Its Augmented Reality Dreams — With Andrew Bosworth
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth discusses the breakthrough engineering behind the Orion augmented reality glasses, the integration of ambient and agen…
27 statements 9 featured 1 assessments
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32m Sparking Net New Innovation At Massive Scale — With LG's Sokwoo Rhee
Alex Kantrowitz interviews Sokwoo Rhee, Executive Vice President of Innovation at LG Electronics, exploring how LG Nova's outside-in incubation model co-creates and scales high-margin health…
9 statements 4 featured 2 assessments
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56m Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
Host Alex Kantrowitz and tech columnist Parmy Olson analyze OpenAI's newly released o1 reasoning model, evaluating its benchmark breakthroughs, enterprise readiness, and operational limitati…
17 statements 5 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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40m iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz and guest Ranjan Roy analyze Apple's iPhone 16 launch, critiquing delayed Apple Intelligence features, minor hardware upda…
17 statements 7 featured 3 assessments
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18m Russia Funds Tenet Media YouTubers
Hosts Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy dissect the Department of Justice's indictment exposing covert Russian funding of Tenet Media, examining the operational mechanics, financial absurdities…
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29m How AI Will Improve Business Efficiency and Productivity In the Workplace – With Ben Plummer
Alex Kantrowitz interviews Invisible Technologies CEO Ben Plummer on how enterprises can unlock tangible AI return on investment by moving beyond chatbots to hybrid human-AI workflows, auton…
10 statements 4 featured 1 assessments
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49m How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari
Author Johann Hari joins Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast to explore how GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are transforming human biology, mental health, and the global economy. They eva…
24 statements 5 featured 20 assessments 2 contradicted
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20m OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
Alex Kantrowitz and his co-host analyze OpenAI's $100 billion funding round, examining its complex web of Big Tech alliances, severe compute-driven financial deficits, and escalating market …
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43m A Longterm Investor Looks Sudden Death In The Face — With Eric Markowitz
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, investor Eric Markowitz shares his harrowing experience surviving a sudden, life-threatening brain abscess at age 35. He discusses how confront…
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35m The Path to SuperIntelligence & Escaping the Simulation — With Nick Bostrum
Philosopher Nick Bostrom joins Alex Kantrowitz to examine the likelihood and existential implications of artificial superintelligence, discussing how a post-work 'solved world' will challeng…
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34m NVIDIA's Auto Play and the Future of Autonomous Driving — With Danny Shapiro
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, NVIDIA VP of Automotive Danny Shapiro explores the transformation of vehicles into AI computing platforms, detailing NVIDIA's full-stack archit…
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57m Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
Futurist and XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis joins Alex Kantrowitz to explore how exponential advancements in artificial intelligence, biotech-driven longevity, and moonshot entrepreneurship …
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31m GitHub CEO Thomas Domke -- The One-Person, Billion-Dollar Startup
In this interview, GitHub CEO Thomas Domke discusses how generative AI is transforming software engineering, enterprise operations, and developer productivity. Domke explains why AI serves a…
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55m Did Klarna Really Automate 700 Jobs With AI? — With Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the fintech giant leveraged generative AI to automate customer service, overhaul enterprise workflows acros…
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51m Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz interviews AWS VP of AI Products Matt Wood to assess the real-world state of enterprise generative AI, exploring Amazon Be…
20 statements 8 featured 3 assessments
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53m What The Ex-OpenAI Safety Employees Are Worried About
Host Alex Kantrowitz interviews former OpenAI Superalignment researcher William Saunders and Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig to examine why departing employees are raising safety alarms. …
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27m Decoding the NVIDIA Trade - With Michael Batnick
Host Alex Kantrowitz and wealth manager Michael Batnick analyze Nvidia's meteoric ascent to a multi-trillion-dollar valuation, evaluating its historical growth metrics, valuation multiples, …
17 statements 6 featured 10 assessments
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19m Box CEO Aaron Levie — Audience Q&A: AI Agents, AI Talent, Evolution of Work
Box CEO Aaron Levie joins Alex Kantrowitz for a live Q&A exploring how autonomous AI agents, next-generation model architectures, and productivity shifts are transforming enterprise workflow…
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35m Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us
In a live recording of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz interviews Box CEO Aaron Levie about the accelerating pace of generative AI, declining compute costs, the transition t…
11 statements 3 featured 2 assessments
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30m Inside the Tech Powering Your Streaming Obsession — With Conviva CEO Keith Zubchevich
Host Alex Kantrowitz interviews Conviva CEO and co-founder Keith Zubchevich to explore the technological infrastructure, client-side telemetry, and explainable AI powering massive live strea…
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1h 3m AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, host Alex Kantrowitz and guest Dwarkesh Patel analyze the technical, corporate, and geopolitical trajectory of frontier artificial intelligence…
39 statements 11 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 22m Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark joins the Big Technology Podcast to explore the evolution toward autonomous AI agents, the compute and semiconductor bottlenecks shaping the industry, Anthrop…
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41m AWS VP of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian — GenAI's Growth Potential
AWS Vice President of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian joins Alex Kantrowitz to examine whether generative AI is approaching practical limits in compute, data, and power. Sivasubramanian ou…
15 statements 5 featured 4 assessments
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28m Yubo Wants To Replace Performative Social Media With Real Time Social Discovery
Yubo CEO and co-founder Sasha Lazimi speaks with Alex Kantrowitz about reimagining social networking for Gen Z by replacing passive, ad-driven feeds and influencer broadcasts with safe, real…
12 statements 4 featured 2 assessments 1 contradicted
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30m Meta's Generative AI Head: How We Trained Llama 3
Meta's Generative AI Head sits down with Alex Kantrowitz to break down the engineering, training infrastructure, and synthetic data innovations behind Llama 3, as well as Meta's strategy for…
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54m Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, veteran technology journalist Kara Swisher joins Alex Kantrowitz to candidly critique Silicon Valley leadership, dissect the strategic race for…
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49m Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, former Google executive and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer joins Alex Kantrowitz to discuss her startup Sunshine, the untapped potential of consumer t…
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55m Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss Yahoo's major private equity turnaround, detailing the company's shift from a legacy portal to decentralized vertical busine…
19 statements 7 featured 9 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 3m Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
Playground founder and CEO Suhail Doshi joins Alex Kantrowitz to examine the rapid pace of AI breakthroughs, analyzing advancements in visual generative models, the realities of machine reas…
27 statements 9 featured 3 assessments 2 contradicted
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57m Is it Flexport + Shopify vs. Amazon? — With Ryan Petersen
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss why Flexport operates as an open supply chain partner rather than an Amazon rival, sharing operational lessons from his…
22 statements 6 featured 9 assessments 1 contradicted
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56m NVIDIA's Artifical Intelligence Moat & Origins — With Bryan Catanzaro
NVIDIA Vice President Bryan Catanzaro joins Alex Kantrowitz to detail NVIDIA's full-stack accelerated computing moat, the historical evolution of deep learning and transformers, and the phil…
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43m Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas: How AI Challenges Google
In this episode of the Big Technology Podcast, Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas discusses how generative answer engines are disrupting traditional web search and Google's core business mod…
18 statements 5 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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54m Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on Dumb Money, Day Trading, and Retirement
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev joins Alex Kantrowitz to discuss the maturation of retail investors, Robinhood's evolution from meme-stock trading into long-term wealth management, and how modern c…
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45m Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
Joelle Pineau, head of Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), explores the company's strategic pivot toward Artificial General Intelligence, detailing the architectural breakthroughs, open-s…
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