OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI debuts its new superapp 2) What happens when all AI products converge 3) Are consultants the key to winning in AI? 4) Are all AI products commoditizing? 5) Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1 model is very cheap 6) Zuck confirms Meta is thinking about a cloud business 7) Is it bad economics to rent your compute to competitors? 8) Instagram's loose Ai reuse settings 9) Oh man, Meta is relevant in the AI discussion again 10) Professor accuses students of cheating with ChatGPT 11) Was professor wrong? 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	Opening Eye Super App finally arrives. Are all AI apps starting to look the same?
0:04.6	Meta undercuts the frontier labs on pricing, and Ivy League students use AI to cheat.
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0:46.4	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition when we break down the news in our traditional
0:50.7	cool-headed and nuanced format.
0:52.6	We have a great show for you today.
0:53.9	OpenAI's long-awaited super app is finally here, and it's starting to look like all AI apps are going to look the same.
1:02.5	So what does that mean?
1:03.6	Meta comes out with a new model, MewSpark 1.1.
1:07.2	It's almost as performant in some areas as the frontier labs but in some areas it's
1:12.4	24 25% of the cost so it has the price war arrived and finally we will discuss the brown
1:19.7	students cheating with chat chippy tea take home test for the midterm everybody gets 100 it seems
1:26.5	like in class at brown university for the final
1:30.0	and it is uh it's failure city out there so what does this mean for for our youth joining us as
1:36.7	always on friday to do it is ron john roy of margins ron john great to see you good to see you
1:41.1	Alex I'm glad you as an Indian person I'm glad you clarified it was Brown
1:44.5	University and not the Brown students but there were there were so many jokes about that on
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