AI Agents’ Shaky Debut, Musk and Putin, Perplexity vs. The Media

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) AI agents are here 2) Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5 model 3) Why we're underwhelmed with AI agents so far 4) The long-term bull case for agents 5) OpenAI's Orion model 6) Sam Altman's fake news tweet, and his cryptic preview of that news 7) Elon Musk and Putin speak regularly 8) China, Russia, Iran, North Korea vs. U.S. and Europe about to get weird 9) Tesla's blowout earnings 10) Waymo raises $5.6 billion 11) Teen takes life after falling in love with Character.ai bot 12) Perplexity vs. The Media 13) Big Technology and ElevenLabs make a deal. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	AI agents are here and they aren't exactly living up to expectations.
0:04.0	Musk and Putin are in regular conversation,
0:07.0	and AI search engine perplexity tells the media to shove it.
0:11.0	All that and more is coming up right after this.
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0:56.6	welcome to big technology podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
1:01.9	cool-headed and nuanced format such a big show for you this week and honestly it's just ramping up
1:07.4	with the AI news national security news the news. The show is going to be
1:11.7	on a roll over the next few weeks. So thank you for being here with us and thank you for staying
1:15.4	with us. We'll talk about Claude's new agents. We'll talk about Musk's and Putin's relationship.
1:20.6	We'll talk about perplexity, fighting with the media and plenty more. And joining us as always to do it is Ron John Roy of margins. Ron John, welcome to the show.
1:28.4	This is going to be a good one. Have you used a Claude 3.5 Sonnet yet? I have not, but the big
1:36.2	news about it is that it's going to finally introduce, or it has finally introduced agents. And I
1:42.3	want to get your take on it. So let me introduce the story and then we'll go right to
1:45.4	you. So TechCrunch this week says Anthropics new AI model can control your PC. And here's the
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