Money Talks: Battle of the AI Bots
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin to discuss his book AI Valley, a deep dive into the Silicon Valley companies that are competing to create the best–and most profitable–AI model. Gary has been covering the tech world for decades and has seen the major players in this arms race evolve over that time. He discusses the perspectives of the companies competing for AI superiority, what we should and shouldn’t be worried about when it comes to this technology, and how he sees the AI boom playing out.
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| 1:06.3 | Hello and welcome to Money Talks. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm your host, Elizabeth Spires, |
| 1:10.1 | and today I'm joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Gary Rivlin, who has a book out. |
| 1:16.2 | It's called AI Valley, Microsoft, Google, and a trillion-dollar raise to cash in on artificial intelligence. |
| 1:22.7 | So, Gary, introduce yourself and tell us about the book. |
| 1:25.7 | Great to be here. You know, I just had crazy timing. |
| 1:28.8 | Right at the end of 2022, I had this idea like, hey, I'm hearing AI starting to get hods or just before |
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