OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Box CEO Aaron Levie joins for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI's anticipated $100 billion fundraise 2) Does OpenAI's big forthcoming raise settle questions about its competitiveness 3) What's going on with OpenAI and NVIDIA? 4) Hype or True: Big Proclamations from the India AI Impact Summit 5) Why can't Sam And Dario hold hands? 6) Anthropic's powerful new model 7) OpenAI acquires OpenClaw 8) What the acquisition portends 9) If software is an API, what is software? 10) Wait, is AI not increasing productivity? --- 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 EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/bigtech Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Take back your personal data with Incogni! Go to incogni.com/bigtechpod and Use code bigtechpod at checkout, our code will get you 60% off on annual plans. Go check it out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	OpenAI is closing in on a massive $100 billion fundraise.
0:03.8	OpenClaw is acquired as agent hype goes into overdrive.
0:08.2	And is AI making us more productive, actually?
0:11.7	That's coming up on a big technology podcast Friday edition with Box CEO Aaron Levy right after this.
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