Big Technology Podcast

By Alex Kantrowitz

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What's Big Technology Podcast about?

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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Big Technology Podcast episodes:

04.17.2024
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders — With Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher is the author of Burn Book and host of the Pivot and On With Kara Swisher. Swisher joins Big Technology to discuss the latest tech news and share her opinion of the nature of tech leaders. We discuss...
04.12.2024
Google's AI Narrative Is Flipping, Microsoft Hedges Its OpenAI Bet, AI Clones Are Here
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) The Solar Eclipse! 2) AI Music generation software Suno 3) Google flipping of its AI narrative 4) Ranjan's reflections from Google Cloud...
04.10.2024
Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic and author of Import AI. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a mega episode on Anthropic and the future of AI. We cover: 1) What Anthropic and other LLM providers are building towards...
04.05.2024
Why Crypto’s Thriving Post-SBF, Sports Betting Crisis Deepens, Jon Stewart vs. AI
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news, with special guest Zeke Faux of Bloomberg News and Number Go Up fame. We cover 1) Why crypto is thriving after poster boy SBF was...
04.03.2024
Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
Marissa Mayer is the CEO and co-founder of Sunshine, the former CEO of Yahoo, and a longtime Google executive. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss why she's betting on consumer tech, building a new array of products including Sunshine...
03.29.2024
SBF Sentenced, OpenAI’s $100 Billion Supercomputer, Neuralink’s Potential
Reed Albergotti is the tech editor at Semafor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to break down the week's news. We cover: 1) SBF's sentencing 2) Is 25 years fair? 3) Is FTX a symptom of crypto or an exception 4)...
03.27.2024
The Yahoo Episode — With Jim Lanzone
Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Yahoo. He joins Big Technology Podcast for the long awaited Yahoo Episode, a deep dive into a company that remains one of the most visited and influential property on the web. Tune in as...
03.22.2024
OpenAI's GPT-5 Looms, Apple's Antitrust Problem, Sports Betting's Big Scandal
The Information's Jessica Lessin and CNBC's Steve Kovach join us for a star studded Friday episode breaking down the week's news. Lessin is the CEO and founder of The Information and co-host of the More or Less podcast. Kovach is...
03.20.2024
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
Suhail Doshi is the CEO and founder of Playground, an AI image generation and editing software company. Doshi joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss where the next generative AI breakthroughs might come from. Tune in to hear Doshi's insights on...
03.15.2024
Is AI Slowing Down?, Trouble at Tesla, Kate Middleton’s Bad At Photoshop
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) AI sales leaders at Google and Amazon tempering expectations 2) Adobe as a practical example of AI hype vs. reality 3) Does...
03.13.2024
TikTok Sale Or Ban Moves Forward In U.S. — With Mike Solana
Mike Solana is the chief marketing officer at Founders Fund and editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the potential forced sale or ban of TikTok as the U.S. congress voted to pass a bill requiring...
03.08.2024
OpenAI’s Turmoil Rolls On, Apple Under Siege, Bitcoin Hits $70,000
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI's leadership in flux as Mira Murati named in NYTimes report about Sam Altman's ouster 2) Where's Ilya Sutskever? 3) OpenAI reveals...
03.06.2024
Flexport's CEO on Amazon & Shopify, Red Sea Shipping Problems, and Inflation — With Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen is the Founder and Co-CEO of Flexport, a supply chain technology company. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether his company is competing with Amazon, his perspective on Amazon culture, and why ex-Amazon leader Dave Clark didn't...
03.01.2024
Elon Sues OpenAI, Should Sundar Stay?, RIP Apple Car
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Elon Musk suing OpenAI for breaching its founding agreement 2) What can Musk accomplish with the lawsuit 3) The SEC looks into...
02.28.2024
NVIDIA's AI Moat & Origins — With Bryan Catanzaro
Bryan Catanzaro is NVIDIA's VP of applied deep learning research. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss why NVIDIA is building more than just chips, examining its software and algorithms that help tech companies build and run AI models. Join...
02.23.2024
Secrets of NVIDIA's Surge, Google Gemini's Image Generation Disaster, Reddit IPO
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) NVIDIA's stock market surge 2) How NVIDIA software is behind its lock on the market 3) Is the economy saved, now? 4)...
02.21.2024
Foursquare's Founder on Making the Internet Fun Again + His New App — With Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of Foursquare. He joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about what made the internet fun, why it's lost some of its magic, and how to restore it. He also introduces a new app, called BeeBot,...
02.16.2024
OpenAI's New Video Generation Model, Zuck Returns Fire, Tesla's Fatal Crash
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) OpenAI's new video generation model Sora 2) Will Sora challenge Hollywood? 3) Does Sora understand physics or is it just spitting back...
02.14.2024
Perplexity’s CEO on Its Plan to Displace Google Search With AI Answers — With Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine that answers queries with a few paragraphs in natural language. Srinivas joins the show to discuss how his company might threaten Google search, and whether conversational AI search is...
02.12.2024
Building One: How Cameron Adams Built Canva
Introducing Building One, a new show from LinkedIn chief product officer Tomer Cohen. Canva co-founder and chief product officer Cameron Adams is the first guest, and in this episode shares his story of how he built his career and eventually...
02.09.2024
Sam Altman’s $7 Trillion Fundraise, Google Gemini Catches OpenAI, The Return To Office Ploy
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Sam Altman seeking to raise trillions for a new chip company 2) S&P 5,000 3) Google’s Gemini reaching parity with GPT-4 4)...
02.07.2024
Apple Mega-Episode W/ Daring Fireball's John Gruber: AI, Vision Pro, China, App Store & More
John Gruber is the author of Daring Fireball. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a mega episode on the state of Apple. We cover: 1) The company's vibe amid revenue declines 2) The impact of its services business 3) Its...
02.02.2024
Hands-On With the Vision Pro, Big Tech's Back in Washington, Elon Musk’s $55 Billion Payday — With Joanna Stern
Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal joins us to talk about her hands-on experience with the Vision Pro. We also break down the dramatic big tech hearings in Washington, Meta's monster earnings report, Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package,...
01.31.2024
Robinhood's CEO On Dumb Money, Day Trading, and Retirement — With Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev is the CEO and co-founder of Robinhood. He joins Big Technology Podcast to share what's happened to meme stock traders after the meme stocks. We talk about how the company's 23 million members are adjusting to a challenging...
01.26.2024
The Taylor Swift Deepfake Problem, Tech All Time Highs + Layoffs, Quitting Amazon Prime
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Why nude Taylor Swift deepfakes could be a problem for generative AI 2) Whether the technology slows due to this Taylor Swift...
01.24.2024
Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau
Joelle Pineau is the head of Meta's AI Research division. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the company's recent proclamation that it intends to build Artificial General Intelligence, digging into how we get there and why it feels it...
01.19.2024
Microsoft & OpenAI Visit Davos, Is The Vision Pro Dead On Arrival, Google Makes More Cuts
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Satya Nadella on the state of Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI 2) Satya Nadella on OpenAI’s governance 3) Sam Altman on OpenAI’s potential...
01.17.2024
Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle Chayka
Kyle Chayka is a New Yorker staff writer and author of FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Chayka joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his book — which debuts this week — and dig into whether algorithms really do make...
01.12.2024
Bill Ackman’s Crusade, A Rabbit Wins CES, Apple Boosts Meta
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Bill Ackman’s crusade against Harvard & Business Insider 2) Why you shouldn’t plagarize 3) Was Ackman’s wife fair game for reporting 4)...
01.10.2024
Will AI Really Take Our Jobs? And If So, Then What? — With Albert Wenger
Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures, and author of The World After Capital. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a frank conversation about whether AI will lead to job loss and what to do about it. In...
01.05.2024
Generative AI Might Just A Be Feature, Crypto is Back, Substack’s Nazi Problem
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Whether generative AI is a feature or the underlying tech of new powerful applications 2) Robin AI's recent fundraising 3) Big Technology's...
01.03.2024
Signal’s President on AI, Advertising, and Running a Popular Messaging App — With Meredith Whittaker
Meredith Whittaker is the President of Signal and chief advisor to the AI Now Institute. She joins Big Technology Podcast for a lively discussion about the state of Google, whether AI is for real or a marketing gimmick, whether the...
12.29.2023
New York Times Sues OpenAI, Apple Watch Ban's Implications, Snapchat Rising On AI Success
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) The New York Times' Lawsuit against OpenAI 2) Whether the Times' case stands a chance 3) How the lawsuit will change perceptions...
12.27.2023
Palantir and Clearview Are Turning Ukraine’s War Into an R&D Lab — With Vera Bergengruen
Vera Bergengruen is a senior correspondent at Time. She joins Big Technology Podcast after a recent trip to Ukraine, where she reported on how Palantir and Clearview are putting their technology in the Ukrainians’ hands, and using the war as...
12.22.2023
2023 In Review, 2024 Predictions — With Casey Newton
Casey Newton is the editor of Platformer and co-host of Hard Fork. He joins Big Technology Podcast for our annual look back and forward at the year that was and the year to come. In this episode, we both go...
12.20.2023
Is Generative AI Killing Creativity Or Enhancing It? — With Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky is the chief strategy officer and executive vice president of design and emerging products at Adobe. He joins Big Technology Podcast to examine the impact of generative AI on creativity. In this interview, we discuss whether AI homogenizes...
12.15.2023
AI Scandals Rock Newsrooms, Uber’s Road to Profitability, NVIDIA’s Underappreciated Weakness
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Alex’s meeting with Sam Altman 2) Publishers using AI to rip off other articles and getting caught 3) The impressive performance of...
12.13.2023
Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is the CEO of Intel. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the AI chip war is playing out and why it's growing more competitive. In this episode, we break down the various components of the chip...
12.11.2023
2024's Big Ideas — With Jessi Hempl and Hello Monday
Jessi Hempel is the host of Hello Monday and a senior editor at large at LinkedIn. Today, we're running a crossover episode where we talk about the future of AI, self-driving cars, social media, and tech media. This is a...
12.08.2023
Google’s Deceptive Gemini Release, More Tech Layoffs, George Santos Saves Cameo
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Google releases its Gemini large language model 2) Why Gemini is a win for Google 3) Google’s deceptive Gemini marketing campaign 4)...
12.06.2023
Tech's Big November Rally, Apple's Path Forward, The State of Tesla — With Dan Ives
Dan Ives is the managing director and senior equity research analyst at Wedbush Securities. He joins Big Technology Podcast for a broad discussion of the state of tech today. We cover: 1) Tech's November rally 2) Whether generative AI is Big...
12.01.2023
ChatGPT Gets Lazy, Elon Musk Blasts Advertisers and Releases The Cybertruck, Jack Ma Returns
Louise Matsakis is a reporter at Semafor covering AI. She joins us for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) ChatGPT getting lazy 2) The commoditization of AI companies 3) Anthropic’s unique board governance 4) Anthropic’s EA connections...
11.29.2023
Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Molly White, Ryan Broderick, and Deepa Seetharaman join Big Technology Podcast to dive deep into the Effective Altruism (EA) vs. Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) debate in Silicon Valley that may have been at the heart of the OpenAI debacle. White is...
11.24.2023
OpenAI's 'Worrying' Q-Star Breakthrough, Google's Culture Problem, Crypto After CZ & SBF
Malcolm Ethridge is the executive vice president at CIC Wealth a CNBC Contributor, and the host of the Tech Money Podcast. He joins for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI's 'worrying' Q* breakthrough 2) Whether...
11.22.2023
Sam Altman Returns to OpenAI. Now What? — With Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box. He joins Big Technology Podcast to look forward at the AI field now that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has returned. In this episode, we discuss: 1) Whether this is good for the AI...
11.20.2023
Sam Altman To Microsoft, OpenAI In Flux — With Dan Primack
Dan Primack is the business editor at Axios and author of the daily Axios Pro Rata newsletter. He joins Big Technology Podcast to break down ex-OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's apparent move to Microsoft, whether he'll stay there, how the board...
11.18.2023
What We Know About Sam Altman's Ouster, The Morning After
A quick solo podcast on what we know about OpenAI firing CEO Sam Altman with Big Technology host Alex Kantrowitz. Tune in for a discussion of what might've happened, how it happened, why it happened, how it impacts OpenAI moving...
11.18.2023
Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman today, a stunning move that will reshape the AI wars and open new avenues for its competitors. Sharon Goldman, Senior AI writer at Venturebeat, joins us for an emergency podcast to discuss the news, and...
11.17.2023
Xi Visits San Francisco, Microsoft’s Big AI Event, Bin Laden on TikTok
Reed Albergotti is the tech editor at Semafor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to break down the week's news. We cover: 1) Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco 2) Why the U.S. And China relationship is softening 3) How AI...
11.15.2023
Google's Search VP on Generative AI in Search, User Notes on Search Results, and SEOs — With Cathy Edwards
Cathy Edwards is the VP of Search at Google. Edwards joins Big Technology Podcast to break some news about Google's two newest search features, including a more personalized experience called Follow and a labs product called Notes that allows users...

What's Big Technology Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Big Technology Podcast episodes:

Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders — With Kara Swisher

Google's AI Narrative Is Flipping, Microsoft Hedges Its OpenAI Bet, AI Clones Are Here

Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark

Why Crypto’s Thriving Post-SBF, Sports Betting Crisis Deepens, Jon Stewart vs. AI

Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech

SBF Sentenced, OpenAI’s $100 Billion Supercomputer, Neuralink’s Potential

The Yahoo Episode — With Jim Lanzone

OpenAI's GPT-5 Looms, Apple's Antitrust Problem, Sports Betting's Big Scandal

Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi

Is AI Slowing Down?, Trouble at Tesla, Kate Middleton’s Bad At Photoshop

TikTok Sale Or Ban Moves Forward In U.S. — With Mike Solana

OpenAI’s Turmoil Rolls On, Apple Under Siege, Bitcoin Hits $70,000

Flexport's CEO on Amazon & Shopify, Red Sea Shipping Problems, and Inflation — With Ryan Petersen

Elon Sues OpenAI, Should Sundar Stay?, RIP Apple Car

NVIDIA's AI Moat & Origins — With Bryan Catanzaro

Secrets of NVIDIA's Surge, Google Gemini's Image Generation Disaster, Reddit IPO

Foursquare's Founder on Making the Internet Fun Again + His New App — With Dennis Crowley

OpenAI's New Video Generation Model, Zuck Returns Fire, Tesla's Fatal Crash

Perplexity’s CEO on Its Plan to Displace Google Search With AI Answers — With Aravind Srinivas

Building One: How Cameron Adams Built Canva

Sam Altman’s $7 Trillion Fundraise, Google Gemini Catches OpenAI, The Return To Office Ploy

Apple Mega-Episode W/ Daring Fireball's John Gruber: AI, Vision Pro, China, App Store & More

Hands-On With the Vision Pro, Big Tech's Back in Washington, Elon Musk’s $55 Billion Payday — With Joanna Stern

Robinhood's CEO On Dumb Money, Day Trading, and Retirement — With Vlad Tenev

The Taylor Swift Deepfake Problem, Tech All Time Highs + Layoffs, Quitting Amazon Prime

Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau

Microsoft & OpenAI Visit Davos, Is The Vision Pro Dead On Arrival, Google Makes More Cuts

Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle Chayka

Bill Ackman’s Crusade, A Rabbit Wins CES, Apple Boosts Meta

Will AI Really Take Our Jobs? And If So, Then What? — With Albert Wenger

Generative AI Might Just A Be Feature, Crypto is Back, Substack’s Nazi Problem

Signal’s President on AI, Advertising, and Running a Popular Messaging App — With Meredith Whittaker

New York Times Sues OpenAI, Apple Watch Ban's Implications, Snapchat Rising On AI Success

Palantir and Clearview Are Turning Ukraine’s War Into an R&D Lab — With Vera Bergengruen

2023 In Review, 2024 Predictions — With Casey Newton

Is Generative AI Killing Creativity Or Enhancing It? — With Scott Belsky

AI Scandals Rock Newsrooms, Uber’s Road to Profitability, NVIDIA’s Underappreciated Weakness

Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger

2024's Big Ideas — With Jessi Hempl and Hello Monday

Google’s Deceptive Gemini Release, More Tech Layoffs, George Santos Saves Cameo

Tech's Big November Rally, Apple's Path Forward, The State of Tesla — With Dan Ives

ChatGPT Gets Lazy, Elon Musk Blasts Advertisers and Releases The Cybertruck, Jack Ma Returns

Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War

OpenAI's 'Worrying' Q-Star Breakthrough, Google's Culture Problem, Crypto After CZ & SBF

Sam Altman Returns to OpenAI. Now What? — With Aaron Levie

Sam Altman To Microsoft, OpenAI In Flux — With Dan Primack

What We Know About Sam Altman's Ouster, The Morning After

Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI

Xi Visits San Francisco, Microsoft’s Big AI Event, Bin Laden on TikTok

Google's Search VP on Generative AI in Search, User Notes on Search Results, and SEOs — With Cathy Edwards