AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
Big Technology Podcast
Alex Kantrowitz
4.7 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The AI vibes are getting ugly. What exactly is going on? Will Jensen Wong give the AI story a boost at |
| 0:07.0 | NVIDIA's forthcoming flagship GTC event? And what in God's name is happening at Meta, where the company's latest model is delayed again? |
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| 0:59.6 | We have a wild. I think it'll be a fun show for you today. |
| 1:03.8 | We're going to talk about why AI is in the midst of a growing backlash. |
| 1:12.2 | We're going to talk about what we might expect at Nvidia's forthcoming GTC conference, which is going to be the big news of the next week. |
| 1:17.0 | We're also going to talk about Amazon and others having trouble with their vibe coding. |
| 1:22.7 | Then, of course, Meta has this big AI model that is simply not shipping despite all of the money and all the talent they're putting towards it. |
| 1:25.2 | Joining us, as always on Friday, is Ranjan Roy of Margins. Ron John, great to see you. Welcome back. The AI vibes are off. This is going to be an interesting with discussion this week. You know, back in the day, you seem like every day there was a new AI breakthrough that people were talking about. Now it seems like every day there's a new AI study that is pointing towards some ugliness around the way that |
| 1:46.5 | the public perceives AI. And for me, this really came to ahead this week. I don't know if you saw |
| 1:51.9 | Sam Altman speaking at an investor conference. And there was a quote that went around Twitter |
| 1:57.1 | where he said, we see the future where intelligence is a utility like electricity |
| 2:03.0 | or water and people buy it from us on a meter. Now, that was like one part of a quote taken out |
| 2:09.9 | a context where, you know, he was talking about why they're building AI infrastructure, |
| 2:15.5 | so much AI infrastructure and his desire to make it cheap, |
| 2:19.3 | somehow the internet just took hold of this statement |
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