2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions — With Reed Albergotti

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Reed Albergotti is the technology editor at Semafor. Albergotti joins Big Technology Podcast to break down which companies are best positioned in the coming year. We cover Meta’s superintelligence gamble, Google’s Gemini push, OpenAI’s model race, and the rise of AI companions. We also discuss Tesla’s self-driving moment of truth, Nvidia’s upside and risks, Microsoft’s Copilot dilemma, big media and streaming shake-ups, Anthropic’s IPO prospects, SPACs and private equity, quantum, and the strange new love stories people are forming with their bots. Hit play for a fast, prediction-packed tour through the year in tech—and a sharp, entertaining look at where the AI economy and Big Tech are headed next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's look back at 2025 and anticipate what's coming in 2026. We'll do it with Semaphore
0:05.7	technology editor, Reid Al-Brogati, right after this. Capital One's tech team isn't just talking
0:11.8	about multi-agentic AI. They already deployed one. It's called chat concierge, and it's simplifying
0:18.7	car shopping. Using self-reflection and layered reasoning with
0:22.7	live API checks, it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love. It helps schedule a test
0:29.1	drive, get pre-approved for financing, and estimate trade and value. Advanced, intuitive, and
0:36.1	deployed. That's how they stack. That's technology at Capital One.
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0:55.6	Welcome to Big Technology podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech
1:00.7	world and beyond. It's the holiday season, which means one thing. We take a look back at what
1:06.6	happened over the past year and say, what's next? And if we can be right, you know, maybe three or
1:12.5	four times out of like the 90,000 predictions we'll make, I'm sure we'll celebrate it next year.
1:17.4	So joining us as always is, or actually joining us in key moments in history, shall we say,
1:24.3	is 74 Technology editor Reid Albergotti?
1:28.2	Reid, great to see you.
1:30.1	It's always good to be here.
1:32.6	I kind of emailed you and said, let's do predictions.
1:35.5	But I'd love to hear just your recap of 2025.
1:41.4	I mean, it's been a crazier, so much funding, commitment, back and forth.
1:45.7	What would you say is like sort of the defining characteristic of the past year? Yeah, I think, excuse me, I think that is one of them. I think the infrastructure,
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