Disney's Ten Year Low, Google's AI Attends Meetings For You, Metaverse Gets Legs

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Disney stock hitting a ten year low 2) The rise of white noise podcasts 3) Google's new Duet AI that attends meetings for you 4) Everyone returns to office 5) Commercial real estate bust looms? 6) Ranjan's report from San Francisco 7) An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk book 8) Fidelity marks up Twitter 9) Meta promotes Threads in Instagram 10) The Metaverse gets legs! --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Disney hits a 10-year low.
0:02.2	Google's new AI will go to meetings with you, and the social media wars hit up just a bit more.
0:09.2	All that coming up right after this.
0:12.4	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:17.2	What would it take to abolish poverty?
0:20.4	Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:22.6	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea.
0:26.7	I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers
0:31.3	for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.
0:36.1	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:42.2	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition
0:44.8	when we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:49.2	We are here ahead of the Labor Day weekend.
0:52.2	We're in September.
0:53.0	I can't believe summer's over. Ron John Roy is here
0:55.9	with us as always. Welcome, Ron John. Summer's over, but lots of news still, even in this last week.
1:03.2	Lots of news. And I'll say this, even though it was the summer, even though things were slower,
1:08.8	big technology podcast hit an all time high in terms of
1:12.4	listenership in August, which is astonishing because that's typically a slower time.
1:18.1	And I just wanted to say everybody to all of our loyal listeners and to all of our new listeners,
1:23.4	thank you so much. It's great to hit these new records. And I'm really stoked for the next few months because we have a lot of great stuff coming towards you. And the fact that we were able to hit an all-time listenership high in August is it just blows my mind. And I'm extremely grateful to everybody who listens. So thank you for that.
1:41.4	Everyone on the beach listening to Big Technology Podcast.
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