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Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai), CEO @Google : “Nobody would want to code the way they were coding 3 years ago or even same time last year. Every part of code we now touch is influenced by AI deeply.”
New: I spoke with @sundarpichai about Google's commitment to the AI frontier, how close we are to RSI, balancing DeepMind's compute needs vs. Google Cloud profits, and much, much more. Full Big Technology Podcast episode here --> Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:14 Google’s Frontier AI Strategy 3:47 Do Frontier Models Really Matter? 6:35 The Future of AI Agents 7:39 Recursive Self-Improvement 12:58 World Models and the Path to AGI 14:56 Google’s Compute Dilemma and AI Infrastructure 19:36 Is AI Overbuilt? 23:35 The Future of the AI Interface 31:42 Google’s Answer to Muse and Dots 35:03 Apple, Space Data Centers, and AI Coding 41:42 Optimism and AI’s Future
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Big Technology Podcast retweeted
New: I spoke with @sundarpichai about Google's commitment to the AI frontier, how close we are to RSI, balancing DeepMind's compute needs vs. Google Cloud profits, and much, much more. Full Big Technology Podcast episode here --> Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:14 Google’s Frontier AI Strategy 3:47 Do Frontier Models Really Matter? 6:35 The Future of AI Agents 7:39 Recursive Self-Improvement 12:58 World Models and the Path to AGI 14:56 Google’s Compute Dilemma and AI Infrastructure 19:36 Is AI Overbuilt? 23:35 The Future of the AI Interface 31:42 Google’s Answer to Muse and Dots 35:03 Apple, Space Data Centers, and AI Coding 41:42 Optimism and AI’s Future
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Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), reports on @WSJ coverage of AI company security: "At a San Francisco playground, a stranger tried to befriend an OpenAI employee who was there with their child...in the process of making small talk, asked questions about their work. It was not idle curiosity. The stranger was a spy."
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Kevin Roose (@kevinroose): "Google had all of the resources, all of the talent. They made all of the breakthroughs. They had all the ingredients except for belief. The leaders of that company did not believe in AGI the way that people like Dario and Sam and Demis do."
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Where is AI headed next, and what will separate lasting change from the hype? @Kantrowitz and @kevinroose unpack how AI is reshaping technology, business and the way we work. More perspectives on the future of technology to come through our partnership with @BigTechPod.
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My strongest AI opinion lasted until I saw this spa sign. Someone prompted an AI for a sign. It made a picture of a sign outside a spa. They printed it. And put it on a sign. A sign of a sign of a spa. I'm sold. 🫠
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Apple (@Apple) is building the device that makes its own iPhone less important. On purpose.
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Apple (@Apple) is building the device that makes its own iPhone less important. On purpose.
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🚀AI just let a 5-person team build what used to take an army. So what actually separates the startups winning from the ones just moving fast? I’m sitting down live with Iccha Sethi, @TrustVanta's SVP of Engineering, to talk through the patterns we’re seeing before they become conventional wisdom, demos vs. production-ready AI agents, and where small teams actually have the edge. Join us 👇 vanta.com/webinars/inside-th… #sponsor
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Anthropic just added a rule: be persistently abusive to Claude and you can get banned. Here's why that policy is more interesting than it looks:
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Anthropic's revenue is growing fast, will it catch up to compute costs though?
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Dylan Patel (@dylan522p), @SemiAnalysis_ : Anthropic's inference gross margins are hitting 75% — matching Salesforce, one of the greatest SaaS companies ever. "It took Salesforce quite some time to get there." "And Anthropic has near no customer acquisition cost. Their R&D spend has grown slower than their revenue. so it's arguably a better business than software."
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"We weren't hacking. We just saw everything." @SemiAnalysis_ CEO Dylan Patel (@dylan522p) says his team accidentally saw the other clients on one AI cloud, including their storage. Intelligence agencies were among them. Not American, from a top-10 GDP country. Then: "We could have just seen what they were training."
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Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), host of Big Technology Podcast, on Trump's sit-downs with AI CEOs in Washington: "He's basically like, if you guys do any more of this doomerism or slowdown stuff, the whole market goes down. And that reflects poorly on my presidency."
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Christian Klein (@ChrstnKlein), CEO at @SAP : "For many agents we are running, and for tasks like creating a headcount report or financial report, some of the open source models perform so good that when we compare it to the cost of frontier models, we switch. Many agents we're building have seen the fifth model because we're always optimizing outcome versus tokens and cost."
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Adam Mitchell, Head of Enterprise Business Solutions at @Voya, on deploying conversational AI at scale: "AI and sleepless nights go hand in hand." His mitigation strategy: fortress data, human-in-the-loop on every interaction, and routing customer inquiries deemed inappropriate for AI to his best people.
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.@Meta has the standard model. @OpenAI has know-how, compute, and better AI. That's why it's taking bigger swings, and why it's aiming at enterprise, not consumers.
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Christian Klein (@ChrstnKlein), CEO at @SAP, on why enterprise AI spending hit a wall: "Now we tell everyone use AI to reskill yourself, become more productive. When I'm the first one who introduces token limits, it's also a message I don't like. But at a certain point, token spend really came to where we definitely need to set certain limits."
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Christian Klein (@ChrstnKlein), CEO at @SAP, on AI automation in enterprise: "The controls, the compliance checks, everything — that's going to get automated now. Many jobs will change really dramatically. That's a full-time job for thousands of people."
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