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
OpenAI’s New Structure, Apple Replacing Google With AI?, Cheating With ChatGPT
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI has another new top executive structure 2) What is Sam Altman's role now? 3) Who is Fidji Simo…
00:54:00 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Is AI Scaling Dead? — With Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus is a cognitive scientist, author, and longtime AI skeptic. Marcus joins Big Technology to discuss whether large‑language‑model scaling is running into a wall. Tune in to hear a frank deba…
00:54:22 |
Wed 07 May 2025
The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) What an 'AI-First Company' is 2) Aaron Levie's AI-first memo to Box. 3) Luis von Ahn's AI-first memo to …
01:04:30 |
Fri 02 May 2025
Amazon's Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani
Jamil Ghani is Amazon’s Vice President of Prime. Ghani joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Amazon's position in the ongoing trade war and how Alexa Plus combined with Prime will appeal to its cus…
00:54:50 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious?, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Anthropic researcher's assertion that there's a 15% chance Claude is conscious 2) What happens if people…
01:06:06 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With Dylan Patel
Dylan Patel is the founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis. He joins Big Technology Podcast to explain how generative AI work, explaining the inner workings of tokens, pre-training, fine-tuning, open source,…
00:41:09 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?, Is AI The New Social Media?, Zuck’s Revealing Testimony
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Is OpenAI's o3 model AGI? 2) Maybe it's AGI when you squint 3) Why people are floating the idea that Ope…
00:53:49 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
Grace Shao is a Hong Kong-based writer and analyst, and author of AI Proem on Substack newsletter. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss China's rise in artificial intelligence, and whether (a…
01:04:15 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
A Week of Trade War Chaos & What's Next For Tech
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Ranjan's experience during the financial crisis 2) The uncertainty around operating a business today 3) …
00:57:20 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
Thomas Kurian is the CEO of Google Cloud Platform. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how AI is changing the competitive balance in cloud services and why he believes Google has a chance to w…
00:56:52 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Special Report: Tariffs and Turmoil — With Ryan Petersen and Adam Parker
Ryan Petersen is the CEO of Flexport. Adam Parker is the CEO of Trivariate Research. Today we host an 'emergency' special report on the impact of tariffs on tech and the economy. Join us for the firs…
01:10:01 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Building AI Personality, OpenAI Relationship, Data Center Demand, AGI Timeline
Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI and a co-founder of DeepMind. He joins Big Technology to discuss Microsoft's strategy to build more personalized and emotionally intelligent AI companions.…
00:54:59 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI's $40 billion fundraise 2) Is the $40 billion number real? 3) Can OpenAI live up to the expectati…
01:02:02 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
Brian McCullough is the host of Techmeme Ride Home. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why everyone's using ChatGPT to make Ghibli art 2) What is Ghibli 3) Open…
00:58:58 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
AI's Rising Risks: Hacking, Virology, Loss of Control — With Dan Hendrycks
Dan Hendrycks is the Director and co-founder of the Center for AI Safety, and an advisor to Scale AI and xAI. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a discussion of AI's growing risk profile, and what t…
01:13:55 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
NVIDIA’s New Roadmap, State of OpenAI, Apple Shuffles Siri Team
Amir Efrati is the co-executive editor of The Information. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Is there a market for NVIDIA's GPU chips outside of the cloud prov…
00:59:01 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is the chief AI scientist at Meta. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the strengths and limitations of current AI models, weighing in on why they've been unable to invent new thing…
01:01:22 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Gruber Slams Apple, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
Reed Albergotti is the technology editor at Semafor. He's back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Gruber turns on Apple 2) Has Apple lost its credibility? 3) Apple stock t…
01:00:50 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
Roblox CEO: We Want AI To Generate Full Games — With David Baszucki
David Baszucki is the CEO of Roblox. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the company envisions generative AI playing into game creation on Roblox. Tune in to hear his vision for a future w…
00:50:47 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Apple’s Siri Embarrassment, Microsoft’s OpenAI Dilemma, Will AI Take Our Jobs?
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Siri’s poor performance 2) Amazon leaves Apple in the dust 3) Should Apple replace Siri with ChatGPT? 4)…
00:59:21 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
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