AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
Big Technology Podcast
Alex Kantrowitz
4.7 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How much are companies actually spending per employee on AI? Is AI winner take all? Is SaaS |
| 0:05.4 | dead? And is anthropic screwed after the Fable Five dust up with the White House? Let's get to the |
| 0:11.2 | bottom of these questions, separating fact and fiction with ramp lead economist Eric Krasian right after |
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| 0:49.6 | and let's build something together. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, |
| 0:54.0 | and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. There are a lot of rumors flying in the |
| 0:59.2 | AI industry, a lot of narratives flying in the AI industry. And what better way to attack these |
| 1:05.1 | than to look at the actual data and separate the fact from fiction? Well, we're going to do it today. |
| 1:10.1 | We're going to talk, of course, |
| 1:11.1 | about how much companies are spending for employee on AI and whether token maxing is a thing, |
| 1:15.9 | but we're also going to get into the news of the week, which is whether the White House's |
| 1:20.7 | Fable 5 ban effectively putting export controls on Anthropics model will have a long-term damage |
| 1:26.9 | looking at what happened the last time |
| 1:29.3 | Anthropic had a dust up with the Department of Defense. We're joined by Eric Karazian. He is the lead |
| 1:34.8 | economist at Ramp. He's publishing some great stuff at the Ramp Economics Lab. I've been a reader of |
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