Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prophesy that 50% of entry level work will disappear 2) Hype or true: Is mass AI-driven unemployment just marketing? 3) How Amodei's prediction could come true 4) How work might shift even before job loss, as in the case of Amazon's engineers 5) NVIDIA's business is booming 6) Are export restrictions on China working? 7) DeepSeek's updated R1 model is here 8) Meta's AI problems 9) Meta teams up with Anduril 10) Did Mark call Palmer? 11) Grammarly's unique funding model 12) Elon Musk gets out of DOGE 13) CEOs using AI avatars on earnings calls --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? 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	Is AI going to drive mass unemployment or are urgent warnings about job loss just marketing?
0:07.2	Invidia, meanwhile, turns in stellar earnings, Mark Zuckerberg and Paul Merlucky team up to build war goggles,
0:14.1	and CEOs are using AI avatars for their earnings calls.
0:18.6	We'll cover it all on a Big technology podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:23.7	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated
0:28.4	to personal development.
0:29.8	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your
0:34.0	work and personal life.
0:35.5	Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network,
0:37.9	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hemple, host of the
0:44.0	Hello Monday podcast. Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast. We'll navigate career
0:50.1	pivots. We'll learn where happiness fits in. Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel,
0:55.5	on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:00.8	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional
1:05.1	cool-headed and nuanced format. We have a big week of news to speak with you about today,
1:10.7	starting with the
1:11.5	prophecies of Anthropic CEO Dario Amode, that we're about to see mass unemployment due to
1:17.8	AI.
1:18.2	We'll also touch on Nvidia earnings.
1:20.4	We'll talk about this partnership between MEDA and Andrewl to build these war VR goggles,
1:25.6	which is quite interesting.
1:27.1	I might signal a shift in Silicon Valley. And of course, we're going to talk about CEOs dispatching
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