Musk vs. OpenAI, Artists Leak Sora, Temu Black Friday

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Elon Musk tries to stop OpenAI from going for-profit 2) Should OpenAI be able to convert to for profit? 3) Should OpenAI be able to prevent investors from investing in competitors 4) What happens if OpenAI delays the for-profit conversion 5) State of GenAI 6) Musk's xAI raise and scale up 7) Artists leak OpenAI's Sora 8) Sora is actually pretty good 9) Evaluating Marx Benioff's agent pitch with Agentforce 10) Salesforce vs. Klarna 11) Klarna IPO awaits 12) Australia's teen social media ban 13) Huawei Mate 70 and its HarmonyOS 14) Temu's Black Friday deals 15) Alex almost buys an ebike --- 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	Elon Musk attempts to stop Open AI from going for profit as he builds his own massive models.
0:06.6	Artists leaked OpenAI saw a video generation tool in a protest.
0:11.0	Australia banned social media for kids and Timu has a happy Black Friday.
0:15.8	That's coming up right after this.
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0:56.8	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition. We're coming to you on a Sunday during a holiday
1:01.9	weekend and we're thrilled to be speaking about all the news with you because there's so much of it.
1:06.5	Elon Musk is going on the offensive again against Open AI. We'll also talk about SORA's leak from
1:12.7	artists and actually whether the videos look good or not. And also Australia has been social
1:18.0	media for kids under 16. And of course, Black Friday is a moment of change in the e-commerce
1:23.0	industry now that Timu and Shian are on the scene and really gaining favor among Gen Z.
1:29.2	Joining us as always to break down the news is Ranjan Roy of Margins.
1:32.6	Ranjan, great to see you. How you doing?
1:34.4	Good to see you on a Sunday. Obviously Friday was shopping on Timu the entire day for me.
1:43.1	That's right.
1:45.7	And I was also hooked to Amazon.
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