The Silicon Valley Election, Goldman’s AI Worries, Using AI To Talk To Animals

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) VCs and Elon going to Trump 2) The policy issues swinging VCs to Trump 3) The case for an against big tech acquisitions 4) Electric vehicle policy as a flashpoint 5) Anti-woke common ground between VCs and Trump 6) Is it a good bet? 7) Goldman Sachs pours some cold water on the GenAI hype and spending 8) Anthropic starts a new venture fund 9) Warner Bros. Discovery potential spinoff plan 10) Using AI to talk to animals. 11) Is a squirrel the next Einstein? --- 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	VCs go for Trump as Silicon Valley is doing all it can to influence the 2024 election.
0:06.7	Will it work in their favor?
0:08.5	Goldman questions whether AI spending is ever going to pay off.
0:12.3	And can we use AI to talk to animals?
0:14.5	Yes, all that and more is coming up on a big technology podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:20.2	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:25.1	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:28.1	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:30.1	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:31.9	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
0:44.3	cool-headed and nuanced format. We have a lot of news to speak with you about this week.
0:49.7	And of course, we're finally going to get into some of the 2024 election. So joining me to do it, as always, is Ron John Roy.
0:56.8	Ron John, welcome back to the show.
0:58.8	I'm in Paris right now in the basement of a we work with a bright pink pop filter on my
1:04.9	microphone that anyone, any of our streaming guests can see right now.
1:08.8	So my travels are almost over and I'll
1:12.6	be back to New York next week. But great to be here. I think it's just the perfect setting to talk
1:18.2	about U.S. politics is in the basement of the pink pop filter. So before we jump in, just a quick
1:24.7	little discussion about us talking about politics. This is not a political
1:28.4	podcast. I think if you're listening, you know that at this point. So we're not here to tell you
1:33.1	to think a certain way. We're not here to tell you to vote for a certain candidate. We are probably
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