Slate Money - Musk vs. the AI Overlords
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers ponder the future of computers, cars, and…fast food? They discuss why Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman and OpenAI and the altruistic origins of ChatGPT. Also: Wendy’s “surge pricing” gaff had customers crying foul and Apple’s electric car has been scrapped. In the Plus segment: The downfall of Macy’s and the American department store.
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After segment one: The Thinking Machine - MIT 1961
After segment two: 1975 Wendy’s Commercial
Plus outro: Scene from Miracle on 34th Street
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm |
| 0:17.9 | Felix Simon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Feck of Axios. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, hello, hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires. You are a New York Times columnist, |
| 0:26.6 | among many other things. Hello. Elizabeth has been reading the massive complaint that |
| 0:34.5 | Elon Musk brought against Open AI on Friday, So we are going to talk about that. |
| 0:40.5 | We are going to talk about Wendy's and its dynamic pricing and the way the dynamic pricing in |
| 0:46.7 | general is taking over the world. We are going to talk about the Apple car, RIP, and how Apple |
| 0:53.7 | grows if it doesn't do cars, or maybe it does do cars. |
| 0:56.7 | We'll talk about that. |
| 0:57.6 | We have a Slate Plus segment all about Macy's, which is doing quite badly these days. |
| 1:03.8 | It's all coming up in Slate Money. |
| 1:12.5 | I made you think you a tree. Money. My name is Caden Sinclair. |
| 1:17.1 | Some people call us American royalty. |
| 1:19.5 | We were liars. |
| 1:20.5 | A new series on Prime Video. |
| 1:22.5 | We were happy. |
| 1:23.6 | We wanted for nothing. |
| 1:25.5 | Based on the best-selling novel. |
| 1:28.1 | Something terrible happened last summer, and I have no memory of what or who hurt me. |
| 1:33.2 | No one in my family will tell me. |
| 1:35.5 | When you're left for dead, you want answers. |
| 1:38.1 | We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. |
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