Hello and welcome back to Equity, the Tech Runch Podcast, where we unpacked the numbers and the nuance behind the headlines. This is Alex, good morning, happy Monday, I hope that you're doing well.

Today is November 20th, 2023 and look guys we did not have a normal

weekend so we are not going to have a normal show. Today first some very short updates on the state of markets because I can't let you not know what's going on there and then a catch-up on all things open AI

This will include a quick timeline to catch you up on the latest, the current state of play,

winners and losers, and then finally, the political divide in tech that is

showing up brightly in the realm of artificial intelligence.

Let's go.

We start as we always do with a look at the world of money and that means the stock market.

Shares are mixed today in Asia,

with Japanese equities as the outlier to the negative.

Shares are mostly lower in Europe

and are all but flat in pre-market trading

here in the US. Now one company in particular we have

our eye on that's Microsoft lost value on Friday but is up today in pre-market

trading which matters as you'll see later in the show.

Earnings this week it is pretty light on Monday we will hear from Zoom.

Tuesday brings us in video by do HBQ IYI, and then Thursday brings us Neo, and that's it.

Turning to crypto, not that much to report thankfully, we are seeing muted price movement in the last seven days and trading volume has peaked

and is once again falling. In short, the recent reflation of crypto spot trading volumes

that did not reach highesting prior in this year is now behind us.

Of course we had tracked a rise in trading volumes and even in FT activity.

Of course that was never going to go up forever.

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