Is Meta dying? Mike Elgan and Emily Forlini return to the Superintelligent podcast to debate the beginning of the end for Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. From the failed metaverse and shrinking user base to a $1.4 trillion lawsuit and the $200 million Alexandr Wang hire, the warning signs are stacking up. They also dig into AI data centers driving up prices on everything from phones to housing, the influencer industry of faking success, Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses paywall debacle, and whether Zuckerberg will ever step down.

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Meta is Dying. It’s About Time.

LARPING: How Influencers Fake Being Rich

The AI revolution comes with a hidden tax

Meta says US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties in August youth safety trial

Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its AI glasses

Inside the rise of Alexandr Wang and Meta’s $14 billion bet that the MIT dropout will help bring AI supremacy

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for AI training data

The Great Hack

Torment Nexus

Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People

India orders Meta to remove ads promoting child sexual abuse material

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We used a variety of AI chatbots via Kagi (Mike’s son and our producer, Kevin, works at Kagi) to 1) generate keywords from the transcript (most of which we used); 2) suggest topics to link to (some of which we used); and 3) write a first draft of the show summary paragraph (which we heavily edited). We recorded and edited the episode using Riverside and used Riverside’s “Magic Audio” (which boosts and normalizes the audio).

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