Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Sam Altman's 'Gentle Singularity' essay 2) Is Altman overhyping the technology's current capabilities 3) Why the next few years may see crazy AI development 4) The case for and against humanoid robots 5) OpenAI's o3 pro model and the value of tool use 6) Meta's acquihire-zition of ScaleAI and founder Alexandr Wang 7) The case for the move and the rationale behind Zuck's aggressiveness 8) MetaAI posts 'private' conversations 9) Google traffic to web publishers falls off a cliff -- here's the data. 10) The burning of the Waymos 11) Alex fight robots --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Sam Altman shares his vision for the singularity as Open AI keeps shipping.
0:04.6	Mark Zuckerberg is on the war path to fix his company's AI effort.
0:09.3	The WWDC fallout continues, and Waymo's are ablaze.
0:13.9	What does that mean?
0:14.9	That's coming up on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:18.9	AI moves fast, and the path forward isn't always clear.
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0:49.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. So much to talk with you about this week. If you thought we were going to
0:58.9	spend the entire episode talking about WWDC, I'm sorry to say that's not going to happen today.
1:03.6	Instead, we have so much going on, including a vision-setting document from Sam Altman at OpenAI.
1:09.0	Some really interesting news coming out of meta as Mark Zuckerberg
1:12.3	tries to write the AI ship. Okay, we'll talk a couple minutes about WWDC because the company seems to be
1:18.6	digging itself into a deeper hole. And then of course, the image of the week, Waymos lit on fire in
1:24.9	Los Angeles amid the protests.
1:27.6	Joining us as always on Friday is Ron John Roy.
1:31.1	Ron John, great to see.
1:31.9	We're going to have a lot to talk about this week.
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