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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.

We have a big show for you today talking all about Jijun Ping's visit to San Francisco

and then plenty of AI news and wrapping it up with some coverage of the latest social media

blowups, shall we say. Joining us today again is Reid Albergotti, the technology editor at Semaphore.

It's great to have you back, Reid. Welcome to the show. It's fun to be here.

Thanks for having me. I can't believe we were talking. The last time we were talking was the beginning

of this Israel-Hamas war. And I don't know, it feels like it's been going on forever now. We're like

six weeks in. But why don't we start with another potential conflict that's been brewing, which was U.S. and China, right? There's all this

tough talk going on between the two countries. Next thing you know, Xi Jinping shows up in San Francisco

and it's all love, right? It seems like that's what happened this week in his meeting with Joe

Biden, don't you think? Oh, yeah. I mean, it's really kind of bizarre. I honestly don't know what to make of it.

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