Big Technology Podcast
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 441
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Trade War Scorecard: What's Changing, Who's Winning, What's Next — With Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen is the CEO of Flexport. Petersen joins Big Technology to discuss how the latest round of tariffs and trade-war maneuvers are rewiring supply chains worldwide. Tune in to hear him unpack…
01:08:01 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology podcast for the first installment of our new monthly discussion about Big Tech strategy and AI! Today, we cover why Apple may want to o…
00:58:25 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Meta's reported $100 million offers to AI engineers 2) If those reports are false, who planted the rumo…
00:58:57 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Is AI Really Taking Our Jobs? — With Noah Smith
Noah Smith is a star economics writer behind the “Noahpinion” blog and co-host of the Econ 102 podcast. Smith joins Big Technology to discuss whether generative AI is actually boosting productivity o…
00:55:43 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
Reed Albergotti is the technology editor at Semafor. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI is disappearing the web 2) Will the…
01:06:15 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Is AI Actually Saving The Stock Market? — With Tom Lee
Tom Lee is the chief investment officer at Fundstrat Capital and head of research at FSInsight. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether generative AI wave is actually holding up the stock …
01:01:02 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI and Microsoft's tension boils as business relationship grows complex 2) Is Microsoft being antic…
00:47:17 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
Dwarkesh Patel is the host of the Dwarkesh Podcast. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the frontiers of AI research, sharing why his timeline for AGI is a bit longer than the most enthusiasti…
01:10:30 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Sam Altman's 'Gentle Singularity' essay 2) Is Altman overhyping the technology's current capabilities 3…
00:59:51 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology to discuss Apple’s subdued WWDC and whether it signals deeper trouble with AI's capabilities. Tune in to hear a breakdown of Apple’s “U…
00:55:44 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
WWDC Dispatch: Apple Refines in a Reinvention Era
Alex Kantrowitz joins live from WWDC, where Apple just announced a number of new design changes including a completely updated operating system with 'Liquid Glass' styling. But in an era of reinventi…
00:13:14 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) What's coming at Apple's WWDC developer conference 2) Apple may be taking an AI gap year 3) Apple's Up…
01:00:33 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem
Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner at SkyBridge Capital, and host of The Rest Is Politics US. Scaramucci joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his brief experience as Trump's…
01:04:06 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's prophesy that 50% of entry level work will disappear 2) Hype or true: Is m…
00:50:53 |
Fri 30 May 2025
She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau
Y-Lan Boureau is the founder & CEO of ThrivePal, an OpenAI-funded AI startup, and a former Meta AI researcher. Boureau joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss why the next frontier for AI should be s…
01:03:05 |
Wed 28 May 2025
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google Enters 'AI Mode'
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Alex's unexpected Sergey Brin interview 2) Jony Ive sells his IO device company to OpenAI 3) What this …
00:50:58 |
Sat 24 May 2025
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: Scaling AI, AGI Timeline, Simulation Theory
Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google. The two leading tech executives join Alex Kantrowitz for a live interview at Google's IO developer conference to…
00:30:47 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential
Koray Kavukcuoglu is the Chief Technology Officer of Google DeepMind. Kavukcuoglu joins Big Technology to discuss how his team is pushing the frontier of AI research inside Google as the company's Go…
00:29:51 |
Tue 20 May 2025
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) ChatGPT ranks No. 5 among all websites worldwide 2) ChatGPT is the only website among the top ranked by…
00:53:47 |
Fri 16 May 2025
AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Emily Bender is a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington. Alex Hanna is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. Bender and Hanna join Big Tech…
01:01:55 |
Wed 14 May 2025
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