Will A.I. Kill the Internet?
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss Microsoft’s attempt to break into artificial intelligence assisted search with a revamp of their Bing search engine. They also talk about record high profits for oil companies and Bed Bath & Beyond’s financial shenanigans.
In the Plus segment: Tether.
Podcast production by Anna Phillips.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! late money. Your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I am Felix |
| 0:24.6 | Simon of Axios joined by Emily Peck of Axios. Hello hello. And also Elizabeth |
| 0:29.5 | Spires. Hello. And we are on a podcast which you are listening to on the internet. It's this doomed because of something something chatbot something. We are going to answer that question. |
| 0:41.0 | We are going to talk about oil companies and how they managed to make so much |
| 0:46.6 | money last year and whether that is going to last. |
| 0:50.0 | We are going to talk about Bed Bath and Beyond and why it is not making any money last year, |
| 0:55.2 | poor Bed Bath and Beyond, and whether that is reversible. |
| 0:59.1 | We have a Slate Plus segment on Tether and whether it was saved by the Federal Reserve, it's all coming up on |
| 1:05.9 | slate money. |
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| 1:38.6 | I feel like this was the week when everyone started taking the idea of AI infecting |
| 1:51.0 | search rather more seriously than they had done until now. And when I say |
| 1:56.2 | everyone I mean the stock market. We saw Microsoft Zoom up in valuation exceeding two trillion dollars after it unveiled a new AI-powered |
| 2:07.7 | bing-binging search. |
| 2:09.9 | Bing! |
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