Zuck's Lucid Metaverse Vision, X CEO Bombs an Interview, Ex-FTC Chair on the Amazon Case

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Meta Connect, and Zuck's new vision for the Metaverse 2) Whether the Metaverse finally makes sense now 3) Alex's first purchase on Temu 4) Your questions + audio quality issues 5) TikTok takes center stage in the Republican debates 6) Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's poor performance at Code 7) Did Yaccarino get sandbagged? 8) Amazon's new Anthropic deal, worth up to $4 billion 9) Our interview with Bill Kovacic, ex-FTC Chairman, on the Amazon case. --- 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/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Is Meta's Metaverse vision finally making sense?
0:03.6	Ex-CEO Linda Yakorino has a rough outing at code.
0:07.0	There's plenty of generative AI news, including a massive new investment to talk about,
0:12.3	and the former chair of the FTC joins us to talk about the agency's case against Amazon.
0:18.6	A big, bold, awesome show coming up right after this.
0:23.1	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:28.0	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.
0:30.9	We'll navigate career pivots.
0:32.9	We'll learn where happiness fits in.
0:34.8	Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel, on the LinkedIn
0:38.0	podcast network, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our typical
0:48.3	cool-headed and nuanced format. We have so much news to speak with you about everything from
0:53.1	the new meta releases to the
0:54.8	bomb at code that Linda Akarino delivered. And then we've spoken with the former chair of the FTC
1:02.1	Bill Kovasik. It was a great interview. We'll play that after the break. Ron John Roy enjoys us here.
1:08.1	As always, Ron John, welcome back to the show. It's flooding here in New York City, but the Metaverse is back, so I'm still happy today.
1:16.0	The city is totally underwater. It almost feels like we should be putting goggles on to zone out from what's happening and live in a Metaverse where our problems don't exist.
1:26.1	Mark, we need the Met eventually to the metaverse.
1:28.3	We need the metaverse today.
1:30.1	Ron John, you know that you were getting, you were getting, people were threading against you saying,
1:34.0	ha ha, Ranjan said this metaverse thing would never come to fruition.
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