OpenAI’s Crazy Week, Meta’s New Orion AR Glasses, MKBHD’s Wallpaper App

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

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI changing its corporate structure to for-profit, public benefit corporation, per reports 2) Is this good for OpenAI? 3) Turmoil through the transformation 4) Can you exist outside of 'the system'? 5) OpenAI CTO Mira Murati leaves 6) Further executive departures 7) Sam Altman's compensation 8) 'Elon Musk's revenge' 9) OpenAI will close its oversubscribed funding round next week 10) New York Times covers Goldman's AI critic 11) Hands on with Meta Orion 12) Augmented Reality as a new computing paradigm 13) Snap vs. Meta AR battle 14) MKBHD's less than stellar wallpaper app 15) Diddy and SBF are roommates --- 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	Open AI is in chaos as leaders leave, Sam I's equity, and leaks abound. Meanwhile, I try
0:06.6	meta's new Orion augmented reality glasses, and YouTuber Marcus Brownlee, also known as MKBHD, launches
0:14.5	a poorly received wallpaper app. All that and more is coming up right after this.
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1:07.6	cool-headed and nuanced format.
1:10.3	Here, as always, on Fridays with Ron John Roy.
1:13.1	Ron John, I have never been more excited to record an episode than I am today.
1:17.3	This week, we have been texting back and forth and back and forth because there's been so much
1:22.8	happening. So I've been waiting for this all week, Alex.
1:26.3	We have, I mean, the dramas continues to unfold at Open AI and big changes for the corporate structure look like they are coming up.
1:34.0	I also, as I mentioned in the intro, got a chance to head down to Meadow's Menlo Park headquarters to try their Orion augmented reality glasses, which we'll talk about.
1:43.2	And honestly, this story about Marcus
1:44.6	Brownlee and his wallpaper app is just like one of the most fascinating things I've seen.
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