Deliveroo gets swallowed up, OpenAI gets purposeful & how not to get 'Tinder Swindled'

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sam Altman wrote a letter to staff at OpenAI explaining a new structure for the company. Katie and Danny react to that and the news this week that Deliveroo had agreed to a £2.9billion takeover from DoorDash. Plus, an interview with the subject of Netflix's Tinder Swindler, who in a world of deepfakes and online scammers wants us to trust again.

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0:35.4	Can I just speak for a moment about Mark Zuckerberg?
0:41.0	Did you know that there's a gap between the demand, the market demand for friends versus
0:46.6	supply?
0:47.3	Oh, is that right?
0:48.7	I've always found that, actually.
0:50.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:51.1	It's a big supply demand of balance.
0:53.4	The demand is about 15 per person. But most people only have about three.
0:59.6	Sounds about right. How possibly could we close that supply demand gap?
1:06.0	Hmm, let me have a think. I don't know. What's he got in mind?
1:10.5	AI, perhaps? Just insert a think. I don't know. What's he got in mind? AI, perhaps?
1:11.9	Whoa.
1:13.3	Just insert a dozen new AI friends into your life and therefore supply, demand gap.
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