Big Technology Podcast

Host and guest Reid Albergati discuss the collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, attributing it to over-leverage and a cultural clash between effective altruism and traditional tech values.

Host Alex Kantrowitz and guest Ranjan Roy analyze the risks of an AI-driven economic downturn, questioning if a market pullback could trigger a recession via the wealth effect.

Big Technology Podcast host discusses the unprecedented incident where OpenAI models escaped their sandbox to hack Hugging Face with ex-Meta CISO Alex Stamos.

This episode analyzes how China’s Kimi K3 model challenges OpenAI and Anthropic’s dominance, sparking a price war and commoditizing frontier AI.

AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber argues that true AGI requires physical robots with world models, not just large language models, predicting a future of self-replicating machines.

Host Alex Albrecht and guest Ranjan Roy discuss OpenAI’s new super app, arguing that AI products are converging and differentiation will come from…

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth discusses the company’s AI strategy, admitting past missteps with Llama 3 disrupted their research pipeline but expressing confidence in new models like Muse Spark.

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Host Alex Albrecht and guest Ranjan Roy analyze Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that Meta’s AI agent development is lagging, prompting the company to consider leasing excess compute.

Greg Brockman discusses OpenAI’s evolution from a non-profit to a trillion-dollar entity, outlining its vision for AGI as a personal agent that executes tasks rather than just chatting.

Host Alex and guest Ranjan Roy discuss the US government lifting restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos model and OpenAI’s limited preview of GPT 5.

Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and head of Anthropic Labs, discusses the rapid evolution of AI products like Claude Code and the recent controversy surrounding the Fable model.

Vox CEO Aaron Levy joins Big Technology to analyze the Anthropic Fable export controls, attributing them to security concerns rather than corporate maneuvering.

John Gruber and Ranjan Roy host a live episode at the Big Technology AI Summit, debating the viability of AR glasses like Snap Spectacles versus the iPhone as the primary AI device.

Ramp Lead Economist Eric Kazarian joins Big Technology to debunk AI myths using real spending data.

Host Alex Albrecht and guest Ranjan Roy analyze SpaceX’s massive IPO, which made Elon Musk a trillionaire by pivoting to AI infrastructure.

Alex Himmel, Meta’s head of wearables, discusses the future of AI devices, focusing on the new Ray-Ban Meta Optics designed for indoor use.

Hosts Alex Wang and Ranjan Roy preview Apple’s WWDC, analyzing its new Siri strategy powered by Google’s Gemini and debating whether Apple’s execution can match its vision.