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Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz 563 - Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.

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Published 11 Sep 2026

Duration 1:01:28

Episodes

563-

Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)

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11 Sep 2026

562-

Apple’s Most Ambitious Roadmap Ever? + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited

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09 Sep 2026

561-

GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy

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04 Sep 2026

560-

Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince

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02 Sep 2026

559-

Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos

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28 Aug 2026

558-

How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown

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26 Aug 2026

557-

Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate

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21 Aug 2026

556-

Nick Bostrom: Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete

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19 Aug 2026

555-

Best of Big Technology: How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari

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14 Aug 2026

554-

Here's How The AI Bubble Bursts — With Paul Kedrosky

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12 Aug 2026

553-

Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick

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08 Aug 2026

552-

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn

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05 Aug 2026

551-

Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day

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31 Jul 2026

550-

How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao

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29 Jul 2026

549-

What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?

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24 Jul 2026

548-

OpenAI's Bots Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos

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22 Jul 2026

547-

Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble

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17 Jul 2026

546-

AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware

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15 Jul 2026

545-

OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown

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10 Jul 2026

544-

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles

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08 Jul 2026

543-

Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake

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06 Jul 2026

542-

Zuckerberg’s Disappointment, OpenAI’s Equity Gamble, Alex Karp’s Rally Cry

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03 Jul 2026

541-

OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents

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01 Jul 2026

540-

Anthropic’s Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases

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27 Jun 2026

539-

Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger

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24 Jun 2026

538-

The Fable Ban's Unintended Consequences + AI's New Economics — With Aaron Levie

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22 Jun 2026

537-

Are AI Glasses Over?, Big Technology Audience Questions, Alex Stamos on AI Cybersecurity

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19 Jun 2026

536-

AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian

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17 Jun 2026

535-

SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War

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12 Jun 2026

534-

What Should An AI Device Look Like? — With Alex Himel

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10 Jun 2026

533-

Will Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI

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05 Jun 2026

532-

AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried

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03 Jun 2026

531-

Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, iPhone Fold Cometh, Anthropic Files To Go Public

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01 Jun 2026

530-

Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading

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29 May 2026

529-

Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo

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27 May 2026

528-

Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI

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23 May 2026

527-

Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier

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20 May 2026

526-

Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank

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15 May 2026

525-

Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? + The Allure of AI Love — With Joanna Stern

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13 May 2026

524-

The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?

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08 May 2026

523-

AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko

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07 May 2026

521-

Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?

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05 May 2026

520-

OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban

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01 May 2026

519-

Mark Cuban: AI Hype vs. Reality, OpenAI's Wasting $1 Trillion, Lebron vs. Jordan

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29 Apr 2026

518-

Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade

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25 Apr 2026

517-

OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks

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23 Apr 2026

516-

Are We Too Obsessed With AI Predictions? — With Carissa Véliz

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22 Apr 2026

515-

Tim Cook Steps Down — With Joanna Stern

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21 Apr 2026

514-

Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot

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17 Apr 2026

513-

The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael

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15 Apr 2026