OpenAI’s Turmoil Rolls On, Apple Under Siege, Bitcoin Hits $70,000
Big Technology Podcast
Alex Kantrowitz
4.7 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | OpenAI's turmoil rolls on with more than just Elon Musk threatening its momentum. Apple is under siege as fines, regulations, and China woes build up. Is TikTok actually getting banned? And Bitcoin hits $70,000, baby. All that and more coming up right after this. |
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| 0:43.1 | Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional |
| 0:48.4 | nuanced fashion. Oh, do we have a show today? Let's podcast, baby. Welcome. As always, Ranjan Roy of margins. |
| 0:56.2 | Ranjan, how you doing? |
| 0:57.2 | Let's podcast. |
| 0:58.9 | There's a lot to do this week. |
| 1:00.5 | No, that's what I was thinking as I was putting down this rundown. |
| 1:03.1 | I was just like, yeah, let's podcast because there's so much amazing, really interesting |
| 1:07.9 | and dynamic moving parts to talk about in the tech world starting with the fact that opening eyes turmoil from its board coup is not anywhere close to over so the first thing that really caught my mind and we talked about it last week about whether this investigation into what actually went down and precipitated Sam Altman's firing, whether it would bear fruit |
| 1:27.9 | at all, whether the public would learn anything from it. And look, we're starting to learn stuff. |
| 1:32.8 | It's already trickling out. I know this report is imminent. I'm sure it will be a big story either |
| 1:36.6 | next week or the week after. But one of the things that really caught my eye and maybe the biggest |
| 1:42.7 | AI story of the week came |
| 1:45.0 | in the New York Times where we all thought that it was Ilius Schaever, the chief scientist |
| 1:50.1 | of Open AI that led this ouster. |
| 1:53.2 | But actually they point to Mir Muradi, who is the chief operating officer, who went to |
| 1:59.6 | the board and was talking to them about Sam's |
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