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Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news LIVE from Big Technology AI Summit. We cover: 1) Do Snapchat Specs signal the end of AR glasses 2) What should an AI device do? 3) Audience questions from the Big Technology AI Summit! 4) How should companies plan for such fast moving technology? 5) What's the ideal AI device form factor? 6) Can AI models be more useful for biology? 7) Can the U.S. and China get along on AI? 8) What responsibility do AI companies have to society? 9) Ex-Meta CSO Alex Stamos joins us to talk Fable's cyber-risks 10) Is it marketing or is it material? --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Though for many of you, he needs no introduction. Let me introduce Ron John Roy. I first started reading
0:04.9	Ron John Roy's writing. In 2021, he had written this newsletter called Margins and I thought it was a
0:11.9	terrific newsletter. I saved it. I spent my winter break reading it. I DM'd him. By that January,
0:18.9	we had decided to do an emergency podcast about a crazy financial situation.
0:23.6	And then Ranjan and I kept talking more and more.
0:26.6	And then by January, 2023, I wrote to him and said, hey, don't you want to just come
0:31.6	and do this every week?
0:32.6	And lucky for me and lucky for us on with anyone involved with big technology podcast, Ron John said yes.
0:39.5	And so getting a chance to speak with Ron John every Friday is an absolute joy.
0:43.8	It's definitely one of the highlights of my week.
0:46.1	And today we're thrilled to be able to do our Friday show live here with you, with your audience questions.
0:52.6	And then we'll just run it tomorrow, like a normal podcast.
0:55.0	So I hope you're ready.
0:56.0	We definitely need your participation.
0:58.0	And please join me in welcoming Ron John Roy.
1:05.0	I got them on.
1:09.0	I'm going to take these off though.
1:11.6	We'll get into the Snap Spectacles.
1:13.6	This is a medium-risk maneuver because I have this microphone on, so...
1:19.6	Those are the Snapchat Spectacles, but not the new one.
1:22.6	They're the original developer beta edition, though, so they're not the new ones.
1:26.6	But I had them in 2021 now
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