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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we cover the week's news in our typical coolhead in a nuanced manner.

Joining us, as always, is Ron John Roy, back from vacation.

We have plenty to talk about.

We're going to talk about the Internet's economic value.

We're going to talk about AI moves inside meta and Google. We're going to talk about the internet's economic value we're going to talk about a i moves inside meta and google we're going to talk about substack and its fight with twitter

and the state of the newsletter platform itself and then also where are all the perks going inside

tech companies that and more coming up over the course of the next hour or so ronjohn welcome to the show

it's good to be back. Great to have you back.

I missed you, man. How was Paris? It was good. There was there was trash on the streets. There was a lot

of trash on the streets. I did not see anything burning directly in front of me, but we,

our travel was a little messed up some of the time based on the strike.

So what you're seeing is a bit real.

So now you're back and one of the stories that you read on your break was this story that

Paul Krugman wrote about the value of the internet and whether actually it helped, whether

it actually helped increase productivity. So basically what Krugman is saying

is that everyone's talking about the internet has been great for people's productivity. Maybe not,

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