Kara and Scott discuss Microsoft's plan to reopen Three Mile Island to power its data centers, and Qualcomm's potential takeover of Intel. Then, Nike gets a new CEO, but will the corporate shake-up get Nike back in the game? Plus, Trump's bizarre messaging around abortion, and Kamala Harris's attempt to get another debate on the calendar. Our Friends of Pivot are New York Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, who are out with a new book, "Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter." Kate and Ryan share behind-the-scenes stories from Elon's Twitter takeover, and weigh in on the latest chaos in Elon-land.
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This week, the memes didn’t just fall out of coconut trees — a rundown of the social media reaction to Kamala Harris’s election campaign, and an exploration of what her tech platform might look like. Then we discuss a major new study on universal basic income with Elizabeth Rhodes, research director at OpenResearch, and ask whether it could be a solution to job losses to A.I. And finally, Kate Conger, a New York Times reporter, joins us to break down how the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crashed the global IT infrastructure.
Guests:
Elizabeth Rhodes, Research Director at OpenResearch
Kate Conger, New York Times reporter
Additional Reading:
What is the KHive?
Is It Silicon Valley’s Job to Make Guaranteed Income a Reality?
OpenResearch Unconditional Cash Study
When Tech Fails, It Is Usually With a Whimper Instead of a Bang
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A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?
Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.
Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.
Today’s Guest:
Kate Conger is a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times.
Additional Reading:
A lawyer used ChatGPT the same week that A.I. leaders released a 22-word statement about the existential risk A.I. poses to humanity.
The chip company Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap, powered by A.I. demand.
The podcast “Acquired” did a two-part series on the history of Nvidia.
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We look into the company’s weird new future with Times tech reporter Kate Conger. Plus, how Apple is single-handedly deciding the future of the digital economy, and a social media death watch.
Guest today:
Kate Conger, a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times
Additional resources:
Elon Musk has closed the $44 billion deal to own Twitter.
In the lead up to the deadline to complete the acquisition of the social media service, Elon Musk visited Twitter’s San Francisco office and sought to reassure advertisers about his plans for the platform through a Tweet.
Spotify has struggled to bring audiobooks onto its platform after Apple rejected Spotify’s new app three times.
The CEO of Altimeter Capital, the hedge fund and Meta shareholder, wrote a critical open letter to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg.
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