AI’s Crucible Year, TikTok’s Lifeline, Manifesting Your Best Self

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Skydiving with the Meta Raybans 2) OpenAI's GPT-5 delay 3) AI's crucible year 4) We finally know what OpenAI's definition of AGI is 5) Was AGI just a financial thing all along? 6) Trump throws TikTok a lifeline 7) The best divestment ever 8) Meta changes its political leadership 9) Manifesting in twenty twenty thrive --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	A major year for AI gets underway, but Open AI's most anticipated model is beset by setbacks.
0:07.2	TikTok gets a lifeline from Donald Trump, and why is everyone manifesting all of a sudden?
0:12.3	That's coming up right after this.
0:14.7	From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.
0:19.5	Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast. We'll navigate career
0:23.7	pivots. We'll learn where happiness fits in. Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hemple, on the
0:29.4	LinkedIn podcast network, or wherever you get your podcasts. Have you been feeling the effects of stress,
0:36.9	burnout, or anxiety at work?
0:39.0	Listen to the Anxious Achiever podcast to rethink the relationship between your career and your mental health.
0:46.0	Get the Anxious Achiever wherever you find your podcasts and walk away with practical advice you can implement today.
0:54.0	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional
0:57.8	cool-headed and nuanced format 2025 is here and so are we. We've got plenty of AI news as well as
1:04.9	some updates on the TikTok saga. And of course, we're going to get into manifesting and why is everybody
1:10.2	doing that these days. Ranjan is going to give us so much get into manifesting and why is everybody doing that these days
1:11.3	Ranjan is going to give us so much more on manifesting at the end of the show but first let me welcome
1:16.1	him back in for the first time in 2025 welcome Ranjan happy 2020 thrive Alex
1:23.7	2020 thrive we're just going to brand it the right way off the bat.
1:27.9	I saw that on some random Instagram reel, and I've been saying that to my wife over and over, and she is not.
1:34.3	She's worried about me.
1:35.6	She's worried.
1:37.0	Are you having good 2025 vibes?
1:40.6	We're three days in right now, and it's been quite a three days, I think, at least in the world. It's been a very big year starts here. It has not been a slow start to the year. So at least for the podcasting world, it keeps it interesting. I'll tell you how I closed out 2024. I jumped out of a plane with meta ray bands on and recorded the whole thing first person.
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