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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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Big Technology Podcast connects AI advances to the corporate decisions, public institutions, and economic consequences forming around them.
Big Technology Podcast follows consequential tech stories past the announcement and into the decisions, incentives, and risks underneath. Alex Kantrowitz moves between interviews and news discussions, asking how faster AI models could reshape software, scientific research,…
Suppose AI works too well: Alex Kantrowitz asks the money questions you wish came with the hype.
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A focused discussion of why AI's hardest workplace barrier may be familiar process.
CloudCode's move beyond programming gives this Big Technology Podcast Friday edition a useful center of gravity: AI may already be able to improve parts of knowledge work, but the tougher barrier is the familiar process people have learned to trust.
A grounded bridge from world-model theory to the bounded environments where AI agents actually have to work.
Big Technology Podcast makes AI research feel concrete by moving from broad talk about world models to the rules an agent needs inside a bounded environment.
A grounded AI race conversation that turns agentic software into a practical warehouse-resume-time test.
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy gives the AI race a grounded check, linking agentic software to the tools, setup, and guardrails that make it useful inside a company.
A concise look at how Google keeps experimental ideas moving between employee projects and Google Labs.
Google DeepMind's operating model comes through most clearly in the question of how Google still makes space for ideas that do not fit neatly inside a job description.
A sharp check on whether startups can still compete as the chatbot layer gets crowded.
Big Technology Podcast keeps the focus on a straightforward question under the chatbot hype: whether startups still have room to compete as the big AI chatbots keep getting better.
A brisk Friday roundup of OpenAI, Siri, Meta, and the next wave of model news.
Big Technology Podcast's Friday edition ties together OpenAI's retreat from video generation, Apple's push to make more AI assistants available in Siri, and Meta's court loss into a swift read on where the week's AI and platform story is heading.
A brisk read on AI backlash, NVIDIA's GTC, Meta's latest delay, and vibe coding trouble.
Big Technology Podcast's Friday edition tracks three pressure points shaping the AI story: rising backlash, NVIDIA's upcoming GTC event, and Meta's latest delay.
OpenAI's giant round is weighed against a sharper test of whether AI saves time.
OpenAI's forthcoming $100 billion-or-thereabouts fundraise and OpenClaw's acquisition give this Friday edition a sturdy business frame, while the question of whether AI is making people more productive keeps it from drifting into headline chasing.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
Big Technology Podcast Friday edition centers on OpenAI’s reported $50 billion fundraise, with Bloomberg’s estimate putting the round at a $750 billion to $830 billion valuation and raising the question of how many more mega-rounds the company can raise.
Big Technology Podcast opens by asking why the AI vibes have gone sour.
Big Technology Podcast visits Google DeepMind headquarters in London for a conversation with CEO and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis.
Big Technology Podcast treats this conversation with CoreWeave as a live test of the AI boom.
The terrifying thing about AI is that both failure and success could be equally disruptive.
Big Technology Podcast hosts Alex Blumberg and Michael Pollan center the episode on whether AI can become conscious, using Pollan’s new book, A World Appears, A Journey Into Consciousness, as the launch point.
Big Technology Podcast with Sridhar Ramaswamy focuses on the AI race between OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Gemini, with Alex Kantrowitz pointing to OpenAI’s 50% web-visit growth and Google’s 647% jump.
Big Technology Podcast Friday edition centers on Google’s deal with Apple to power the next Siri with Gemini, and the hosts use David Pierce’s Verge headline, 'Gemini is winning,' as the episode’s organizing frame.
Big Technology Podcast Friday edition predicts 2026 across agentic AI, ChatGPT user growth, foldable phones, Apple, AI shopping, and AI companionship.
OpenAI is described as topping $25 billion in annualized revenue, while Anthropic is said to have reached $19 billion, up nearly three times from the end of last year and 36% from two weeks earlier.
Senator Mark Warner says “government’s not ready” for AI and argues the next three to five years could bring major economic disruption.
Big Technology Podcast covers Anthropic’s jump from a planned $10 billion raise to about $20 billion, with Stephen Morris saying demand reached five to six times that amount and the company’s valuation landed around $350 billion.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of 1929, argues on Big Technology Podcast that AI success could create a labor shock more serious than a market crash.
Big Technology Podcast takes a live Davos conversation into how Google DeepMind organizes research, with Lila Ibrahim describing a mission to “build AI responsibly to benefit humanity” and James Manyika explaining the company’s AI “engine room.” The guests say Google DeepMind combines top-down direction from Demis Hassabis with bottom-up initiative, and they cite examples such as Gemini, AlphaFold, weather forecasting, and flood forecasting across 150 countries.
Big Technology Podcast brings back Box CEO Aaron Levy to discuss the reported OpenAI fundraise that has grown from $50 billion to about $100 billion, with SoftBank, Amazon, and NVIDIA named as possible backers.
Big Technology Podcast Friday edition centers on Claude Code, ChatGPT for healthcare, prediction markets, and the end of busy work, with Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy breaking down the week’s AI news.
Big Technology Podcast asks whether startups can still compete with ChatGPT, with Andreessen Horowitz AI partner Olivia Moore weighing in.
Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of Mistral, argues on Big Technology Podcast that frontier AI models are already commoditizing because about 10 labs can build them from similar data and short recipes.
The episode explores the rapid advancements in AI, focusing on safety concerns raised by a viral essay and recent industry developments.
The US military has been using fully autonomous weapons for over 40 years — and most people have no idea.
Software is getting hit.
OpenAI leads the conversation by backing away from video generation, and the host treats that as a bigger clue about where the company wants to head.
Big Technology Podcast hosts Cristiano Amon at Davos and frames the conversation around the future of AI devices, AI PCs, data centers, and robotics.
The episode opens on the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff and what its ending means for the company and for defense.
So there's a notion of non-stationarity that is re...
Google DeepMind CEO on the path to AGI and when AI glasses arrive.
Alex Kantrowitz and MG Siegler discuss the rise of Moatbook, a social network for 150,000 AI agents, exploring its implications for AI sentience and security vulnerabilities.
Big Technology Podcast Friday edition with hosts Alex and Ranjan Roy covers three major tech news stories: Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus (which can produce research reports and build websites), Grok's problematic image generation creating undressed versions of people without consent (raising accountability questions), and why young people are increasingly engaging with prediction markets and sports betting (framed as 'Prison of Financial Mediocrity').
Alex and MG Siegler frame the episode around three main threads: whether AI needs its own Steve Jobs, the AI chaos ladder, and what 2026 may bring.
Big Technology Podcast opens with the Pentagon's move to label Anthropic a supply chain risk.
Brett Taylor argues that AI will change software by replacing browser-based forms and dashboards with agents that operate against databases and deliver custom information to each worker.
A tech news roundup covering OpenAI's acquisition of TBPN, SpaceX's IPO plans, and Iran's attack on Amazon infrastructure.
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman discusses the inevitability of AGI, the company's shift to a Super App, and the challenges of scaling compute.
A tech podcast episode reviewing 2025 and predicting 2026 trends, featuring an interview with a technology editor.
Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy discuss Sam Altman's interview, Google's new AI model, and Copilot's challenges.
Sam Altman discusses OpenAI's strategy to maintain its lead amid intensifying competition from Gemini 3 and DeepSeek.
Interview with Replit CEO Amjad Massad about vibe coding and AI's role in software development.
Alex Kantrowitz and M.G.
A tech news roundup episode covering OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal, Grok's week, NVIDIA's market milestone, and rumors about Apple replacing Tim Cook, featuring an interview with Box CEO Aaron Levy.
An interview with Flexport CEO Ryan Peterson about the impact of Trump's tariffs on global supply chains and big tech companies.
Host Alex Kantrowitz interviews M.G.