Uber + Expedia? Ballmer on 60 Minutes; 1980s Silicon Valley revisited; What's next for AI
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🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This week, we imagine the possibility of Uber buying Expedia Group, based on a report by the Financial Times this week that the ride-hailing company has considered a bid for the online travel giant. It would be notable in part because Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was Expedia Group’s CEO from 2005 to 2017 and remains on the company’s board.
In the second segment, we enjoy highlights from the "60 Minutes" profile of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and a separate appearance by University of Washington historian and author Margaret O'Mara on an episode of the podcast "60 Minutes: A Second Look" about the rise of Silicon Valley in the early 1980s.
And finally, we talk about our new Geekwire project, Microsoft @ 50, and get a window into what's next in AI from Peter Lee, the Microsoft Research president. He shares the top three technical challenges and opportunities on his mind when it comes to the future of artificial intelligence. This is bonus content from an interview for the first story in the series, published this week, tracing the evolution of AI inside Microsoft.
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook.
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| 0:19.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:20.9 | Anything related to housing Zillow is going to be the super app anything related to travel would be the Uber Expedia |
| 0:27.4 | combination I could see these folks when they get together in Palm Springs |
| 0:32.2 | Smoking their cigars. |
| 0:34.0 | Yes, no doubt. |
| 0:36.0 | This has been a topic of much conversation between... |
| 0:39.0 | What's your super app strategy? strategy. I'm GeekWire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:53.5 | We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each day on what's happening around |
| 0:56.8 | us in business, technology, and innovation. |
| 0:59.7 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show show we get to talk about some of the |
| 1:03.8 | most interesting stories and trends in the news. |
| 1:07.1 | Coming up later on we are going to hear from the president of Microsoft research about |
| 1:12.0 | what's next in AI, the key challenges that need to be |
| 1:15.2 | overcome to get artificial intelligence to the next level. That's Peter Lee. |
| 1:20.1 | He'll be coming up later on in the show, highlights from a recent interview that I had with him |
| 1:25.1 | But first John I wanted to talk about what I think is the real talker of the week and that is the report by the Financial Times that Uber has expressed interest in initial |
| 1:38.7 | outreach at least in acquiring Expedia Group. |
| 1:44.0 | This is so fascinating for a number of different reasons, |
| 1:47.0 | some of them the personalities that are behind this. |
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