AI Scandals Rock Newsrooms, Uber’s Road to Profitability, NVIDIA’s Underappreciated Weakness

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Alex’s meeting with Sam Altman 2) Publishers using AI to rip off other articles and getting caught 3) The impressive performance of Anthropic’s Claude 4) SI fires execs after AI scandal 5) Is Generative AI good for news? 6) Did Twitter destroy news? 7) Uber finds profitability by squeezing drivers 8) Uber drivers trying to circumvent the system 9) Why can’t Lyft capitalize on Uber’s practices 10) Tesla’s autopilot recall 11) Why we need a new word for recall 12) Epic’s win vs. Google 13) Apple’s increasing service fees 14) Timeshare presentation at Vegas 15) The Sphere! 16) NVIDIA’s rich employees don’t want to work as hard 17) NVIDIA’s competitive threats --- 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/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0	AI scandals are rocking newsrooms, Uber's intriguing road to profitability, millions of
0:06.3	Teslas are recalled, and Nvidia's surprising competitive challenge. All that and more coming
0:12.0	up right after this. Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species? What would it take
0:19.8	to abolish poverty?
0:21.9	Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:24.1	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea.
0:28.2	I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers
0:32.9	for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.
0:37.7	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:44.2	I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer.
0:47.5	If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built, then tune in to my podcast,
0:52.5	building one.
0:53.5	I speak with some of the best product
0:54.9	builders out there. I've always been inspired by frustration. It came back to my own
0:59.8	personal pinpoint. So we had to go out to farmers and convince them. Following that curiosity
1:05.1	is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition. Listen to Building One on Apple
1:10.6	Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.1	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
1:21.4	Ranjan Roy is here with us.
1:23.0	We've got a huge week of news to break down.
1:25.2	We're going to talk about all these big AI scandals in the news
1:28.4	everywhere, some stuff about Uber, the Tesla recall, and then a little bit more about chips.
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