Open AI says it started training its next frontier model.

Saty Nodella calls Sam Altman to talk about his Apple partnership.

Apple's big announcements meanwhile look clearer ahead of W. W. D.C.

Elon Musk raised $6 billion for X-A-I,

and the remote work era is spiking loneliness.

All that and more is coming up right after this.

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast.

Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.

We have Brian McCullough with us here in the house, talking about everything from GPT-5 potentially coming in to the Musk fundraising and of course what's

going on with Apple and Open AI and how Microsoft feels all about it.

Brian is the host of the Tech Neum Ride Home show.'s a great show. You can find it in your

podcast app of choice. He's also a partner at the Ride Home Fund. Ryan,

welcome back to the show. Great to see you. Great to see you again. I think, you

know, this is what the fourth or fifth time we've done this

But it since Alex has been telling you about tech meme recently I believe

You know FYI if you don't want to go to tech meme every 30 seconds like most of us do to read the articles. You can just have me regurgitate the articles to you every day for about 15 minutes, a really quick podcast. It goes well as we always say with big technology.

That's right, definitely go to tech meme right home to well as we always say with big technology.

That's right, definitely go to Tech Mem right home

to check out your daily tech news.

Come to us for, you know, on the weekends or on Wednesdays

as we dive deep into the headlines and let's just do that right now.

So, Open A I had a very interesting release this week, Brian, and by release I mean press release, really.

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