Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Join us for the Big Technology AI Summit on June, 18, 2026. Get your tickets here: summit.bigtechnology.com.... Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI's revenue numbers come out ahead of its potential IPO filing 2) Why is OpenAI considering going public now? 3) Is OpenAI trying to IPO ahead of Anthropic? 4) Is the Iran War accelerating the timeline of these fundraisings? 5) What would the top of the AI boom look like? 6) SpaceX files for an IPO 7) Are datacenters in space a myth? 8) Eric Schmidt gets booed at a college commencement 9) Meta's mass layoff 10) Meta's keystroke tracking rationale 11) Marc Andreessen says AI won't file a HR complaint --- 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is OpenAI ready to IPO? How about Anthropic? SpaceX is going public, but data centers in space might be a myth.
0:06.9	And Eric Schmidt is booed loudly by the new grads, and maybe they have a point. That's coming up on a big technology podcast Friday edition, right after this.
0:15.0	I'm just back from ServiceNow's Knowledge, 2026 in Las Vegas, and the conversations I had there are ones you're going to want to hear.
0:21.8	I sat down with their president and CPO Amit Zaveri on the platform strategy powering
0:26.7	enterprise AI, chief people and AI enablement officer Jackie Canney, and chief digital information
0:32.0	officer Kelly Romack, on what AI really means for the workforce.
0:36.0	The technical leaders behind ServiceNow's
0:37.9	Nvidia partnership on shipping AI at scale
0:40.6	and Alta Beauty on deploying ServiceNow's technology
0:43.5	across 1,300 stores.
0:45.3	If you want to know where Enterprise AI is actually headed,
0:48.3	not the hype, but the real story,
0:49.9	you can find these videos on my YouTube channel.
0:52.2	Search Alex Cantorowitz on YouTube.
0:53.8	Depending on who you ask, between Alex Cantorowitz on YouTube.
0:54.2	Depending on who you ask,
0:55.2	between 80 and 95% of enterprise AI projects fail.
0:59.2	To get AI to work for you,
1:00.5	you don't need more tokens, you need better people.
1:03.1	A board pairs powerful proprietary tools
1:05.6	with senior engineers who've seen it all.
1:07.6	That combination means your project doesn't stall,
	...

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