Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, Friday Edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.

We are running this show as a crossover episode with the Tech Mem Ride Home

podcast so we're gonna run it on Big Technology Podcast feed. We are gonna run it on the

Tech Beam Ride Home Feed. I'm Alex Cantrott's we have a great series of story topics to cover with you today.

We're going to talk about the open AI business model, the fact that it lost a lot of money last year

and whether its business is sustainable, we're also going to talk about the proprietary versus open source battle

and whether big tech is going to have a chance to compete with the

open source community when it comes to artificial intelligence.

It's actually a more competitive fight than you might

imagine. We'll also cover some of the concerns about AI that came up this week, a lot of AI this

week, but hey, I guess that's the big story and also the White House and other

government initiatives to try to rein in some of the potential risks of that technology

and then stay with us the second half. We're going to cover the economy.

We're going to cover Apple earnings.

And we're going to cover, of course, Ed Sheeran.

And yes, Ed Sheeran has been exonerated.

He won his copyright trial.

I actually think this is a big deal not only for the entertainment and music

industry for the precedent that it sets for generative AI and all the different types of content

that's going to come out of this new technology.

Let me introduce our guests.

Ron John Roy is here with us as always on Fridays.

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