OpenAI’s Raising At $100B Valuation, Telegram’s Pavel Durov Arrested, NVIDIA's Just Okay Earnings

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI Raising at a $100 billion valuation 2) Is Investing in OpenAI a good bet? 3) Why is Thrive leading the round? 4) ChatGPT usage doubles 5) MetaAI reaches 40 billion daily active users 6) Amazon leadership says coding will soon be done by bots and not humans 7) Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested and charged 8) Should Durov have been arrested or fined? 9) NVIDIA's earnings are just okay --- 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 fundraising at a $100 billion valuation.
0:04.2	Telegram CEO Pavel Durev has been arrested and charged in France, and Nvidia earnings have
0:09.9	come in.
0:10.8	They're impressive, but are they impressive enough to sustain the AI boom?
0:14.8	All that and more coming up on a special Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:20.9	Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields.
0:22.7	Tune in to my podcast for conversations about the sweet spot between work, meaning, and joy.
0:28.8	And also listen to other people's questions about how to get the most out of that thing we call work.
0:34.2	Check out SPART wherever you enjoy podcasts.
0:39.3	I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer. If you're just as curious as I am
0:44.3	about the way things are built, then tune into my podcast, building one. I speak with some of the
0:49.5	best product builders out there. I've always been inspired by frustration. It came back to my own
0:54.9	personal pinpoint. So we had to go out to farmers and convince them. Following that curiosity
1:00.2	is a superpower. You have to be obsessed with the human condition. Listen to Building One on Apple
1:05.7	podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Book in a Big Technology podcast Friday edition when we break down the news in our traditional
1:13.5	cool-headed and nuanced format.
1:15.6	We have a big week of news including massive Open AI fundraising news.
1:20.5	We said it was coming and it is on the way along with Nvidia earnings which we'll get
1:25.5	to at the end of the show and very very big news in France, where the CEO of Telegram,
1:31.3	Pavel Duraev, has been arrested in connection with facilitating
1:35.3	or having some terrible stuff happen on the platform,
1:39.3	including child-exploitative materials.
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