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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 great show for you today. We're going to talk all about meta, deciding that maybe it's time to tell off some of that very precious compute. As Mark Zuckerberg says, AI agent development is going slower than expected. We're going to talk about what that means, not just for meta, but for the broader AI industry. We'll also talk about Open AI, potentially giving some of its equity to the White House, whether that's advisable or not. And of course,

Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir coming out and declaring, effectively declaring war on the

foundational lab. It's really what it is. Joining us, as always, on Friday to do it is Ron John Roy of

margins. Ron John, good to see you. Great to see you, Alex. I'm currently in London in a hotel room with a mediocre Wi-Fi.

Yeah, everybody, the fact that we're doing a show right now is somewhat miraculous. I just want to say

thanks to Ranjan for sticking with us. It's pretty late London time. So modern technology.

That's what we do. That's what we do. So our top story this week is what's going on at meta or what isn't going on at meta. And that is

impressive AI development. And that was something that Mark Zuckerberg in an internal town hall admitted

effectively, according to Reuters. Here's the headline. Zuckerberg says AI agent development is going slower than expected.

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