Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Google's Gemini may power Siri 2) Google gets to keep Chrome and Android 3) Google can keep paying Apple for distribution 4) Is generative AI enough rationale to allow the market to decide Google's fate? 5) Google's Nano Banana image creator goes viral 6) Google's stock is up 47% in the past year and still cheap 7) Do we want the iPhone 17 Air? 8) AI is getting more expensive to run 9) But AI is getting cheaper per token. Hmm. 10) Anthropic raises $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation 11) Putin and Xi discuss immortality --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Google had the best week, maybe ever, breaking Gemini ground with Apple and fending off the feds.
0:07.1	AI's costs are rising, or are they?
0:09.5	And is immortality within reach?
0:11.8	That's coming up on a jam-packed Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:17.1	Capital One's tech team isn't just talking about multi-agentic AI.
0:21.5	They already deployed one.
0:23.5	It's called chat concierge and it's simplifying car shopping.
0:27.8	Using self-reflection and layered reasoning with live API checks,
0:32.2	it doesn't just help buyers find a car they love.
0:35.5	It helps schedule a test drive, get pre-approved for financing,
0:39.6	and estimate trade and value. Advanced, intuitive, and deployed. That's how they stack. That's
0:46.4	technology at Capital One. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition when we break down the
0:51.6	news in our traditional cool-headed, a nuanced format.
0:54.8	We have a great show for you today.
0:56.0	We're going to talk all about the amazing week that Google has had, everything from fending
1:00.5	off the Justice Department and getting to keep Chrome and Android to the fact that Gemini
1:06.4	might be a big part of Apple's new plan for Siri.
1:10.2	And of course, there's nanobanana.
1:11.6	We'll talk about that.
1:12.6	We also have a very interesting story to discuss about how AI's costs are rising,
1:17.6	despite the fact that every token you produce is actually getting cheaper.
1:23.6	And then we'll talk about the debate around that Wall Street Journal article that we should definitely get into. And then finally, well, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are talking about immortality. And so that's how we're going to end it today. So stay tuned as we get to that part of the show. Joining us, as always, on Friday is Ranjan Roy of Margins. Ron John, great to see you. How you doing? Good to see you. I will give Google the best
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