Kamala's Tech Agenda, Drunken AI Spending, Meta’s Open Source Necessity

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

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Kamala in, Biden out 2) Kamala's tech agenda 3) The importance of Lina Khan 4) Do VCs regret backing Trump after the past week's developments 5) J.D. Vance couch meme 6) Twitter at the center of the story 7) AI CapEx goes wild 8) Google's resilience through the first AI wave 9) OpenAI launches a search engine, SearchGPT 10) Elon's AI supercomputer 11) DeepMind's math-solving AI 12) Meta's need for open source AI 13) Southwest Airlines does away with open seating, --- 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/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Kamala Harris is in. We sort out where she stands on tech.
0:04.2	Is runaway spending starting to catch up with big tech and the opening eyes of the world?
0:09.1	Meta goes all in on open source with its new Lama model.
0:13.4	And Southwest Airlines is ditching open seating.
0:16.3	This is going to be interesting.
0:17.9	All that anymore is coming up on a Friday edition of Big Technology
0:20.9	podcast right after this. Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields. Tune in to my podcast for conversations about
0:28.1	the sweet spot between work, meaning, and joy. And also listen to other people's questions
0:33.5	about how to get the most out of that thing we call work. Check out SPART wherever you enjoy podcasts.
0:42.0	I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer.
0:45.2	If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built,
0:48.7	then tune into my podcast, building one.
0:51.3	I speak with some of the best product builders out there.
0:53.9	I've always been inspired by
0:55.7	frustration. It came back to my own personal pinpoint. So we had to go out to farmers and convince
1:01.2	them. Following that curiosity is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition.
1:07.1	Listen to Building One on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:18.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.
1:22.8	Well, a week after we started talking politics, we've had a swap at the top of the Democratic ticket.
1:27.3	We're going to talk all about how Kamala Harris might approach the tech industry, but we're
1:27.7	going to do that briefly and then get into the meat of our show where we talk about the capital
1:31.6	expenditures of companies that are working in the open AI field, meta's new Lama 3.1 model, and
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