Is AI slowing down after all that hype?

Trouble at Tesla as the downgrades pour in, the TikTok band slows down in the Senate,

and Kate Middleton is bad at Photoshop. Or is she? All that and more coming up right after this.

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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format we have such a great show

for you today we're going to talk about the chances of AI's momentum persisting there's been

some signs of slowing this week we We should talk about that and also

plenty on Tesla, TikTok. And yes, we're going to end with Kate Middleton. Joining us, as always,

is Ron John Roy of margins. Ron John, welcome. I would like to start with Kate Middleton,

but I think AI slowing down is the right place to start. Yeah, we'll leave that as the juicy nugget at the end for people to stick with us

through the whole show.

But this is also juicy right up top.

The information is reporting that, let's just, I'll just read the headline,

the information is reporting that Amazon and Google are quietly tamping down generative

AI expectations.

And they say in the past year, major technology firms have championed generative AI expectations. And they say in the in the past year major technology firms

have championed generative artificial intelligence as the next big thing boosted the stock market

to new highs, but behind the scenes representatives of major cloud providers and other firms

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