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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.

Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)
Sep 2026
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Apple’s Most Ambitious Roadmap Ever? + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited
Sep 2026
0:00 / 61:32
GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 2026
0:00 / 57:28
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
Sep 2026
0:00 / 53:36
Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
Aug 2026
0:00 / 59:22
How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
there's a book i'm blanking on the author's name right now but the end of expertise or that talked about how and i covid's a perfect example of how experts have have gotten it wrong repeatedly on important issues and also i think the sense of elitism that comes with that ▶ tap to play from here
Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
Aug 2026
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Nick Bostrom: Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete
Aug 2026 · 2 books
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
and super intelligence paths dangers and strategies ▶ tap to play from here
Cover of Deep Utopia
Deep Utopia
Nick Bostrom
nick bostrom is here he is the uh famed ai philosopher and author of deep utopia ▶ tap to play from here
Best of Big Technology: How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs
Johan Hari
in his new book magic pill the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks of the new weight loss drugs is out ▶ tap to play from here
Here's How The AI Bubble Bursts — With Paul Kedrosky
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
Carlotta Perez
there's this woman named carlotta perez who who wrote a book called technological revolutions and financial capital which in a sense is the bible for many of the most um i don't know bullish ▶ tap to play from here
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
Aug 2026
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How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
Aug 2026 · 2 books
0:00 / 70:45
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The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
the last metaphor i use in this post was azad which is this fictional game in ian banks ▶ tap to play from here
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The Engines That Move Markets
Alastair Nairn
narn who i love and think very highly of and who wrote the book the engines that move markets which is like the great book on technology investing ▶ tap to play from here
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
Jul 2026
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How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao
Jul 2026
0:00 / 61:13
What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
Jul 2026
0:00 / 64:36
OpenAI's Bots Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
Jul 2026
0:00 / 49:45
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
Jul 2026
0:00 / 60:50
AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
Jul 2026 · 1 book
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Simulacron-3
Daniel F. Galouye
that was um what was the name i call simulacron three yeah something like that uh it was by daniel f galoui ▶ tap to play from here
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
Jul 2026
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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles
Jul 2026
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