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

Ranjan Roy from Margins and Alex Stamos from Cognition are back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Is Sundar Pichai team product or team model? 2) Google's attempt to build a unified assistant 3) Which Google teams get priority? 4) Sundar's cloud allocation between Google Cloud and AI Research 5) Will Google Cloud Platform overtake Azure? 6) Meta Stock falls on worries about its fundraising and debt 7) OpenAI valuation takes a hit after investors feel "indigestion" given how much money they've poured into it 8) Is there any money left to fund AI? 9) Cognition CISO Alex Stamos joins to talk about the PHP bug is going to cause long term damage 10) How to protect yourself and your company from the ongoing cybersecurity risks 11) It's not just PHP, it's Black October for cybersecurity.

Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. Pichai joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Google's return to the frontier of AI, its strategy for competing with OpenAI, and the enormous computing resources required to build the next generation of models. Tune in to hear why Google is sacrificing short-term Cloud revenue to support AI research, how demand for compute is stretching into 2027, and why its new Gemini 4 Argon model is seeing explosive adoption. We also cover recursive self-improvement, AI agents, the future of Google's products, the possibility of an AI bubble, data centers in space, and Google's partnerships with Apple and Anthropic. Hit play for an in-depth conversation about Google's AI strategy, the fierce competition shaping the industry, and why Pichai believes we're entering a moment of infinite possibilities.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic's 2026 financial numbers leak, is it slowing down? 2) It's time for the Anthropic S-1 3) Will anything calm the chaotic AI trade ahead of the Anthropic IPO? 5) Coreweave stock falls as AI jitters spread 6) The curious case of the strategically placed recording device at OpenAI 7) Beware the honeypots 8) Ranjan acts out a honeypot 9) Apple's HomeView is promising? 10) The great Food Slop debate

Kevin Roose is the author of The AGI Chronicles,. Roose joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether an AI industry rife with personal rivalries, infighting, and mistrust can be trusted to develop technology more powerful than humans. Tune in to hear why Roose emerged from years of reporting inside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind more concerned about AI safety, why he believes the industry should slow down, and what happens if AI systems begin improving themselves. We also cover Sam Altman's leadership style, Dario Amodei's motivations, Sergey Brin's return to Google, Microsoft's AI missteps, and the behind-the-scenes drama of OpenAI's boardroom coup. Hit play for an inside look at the personalities, power struggles, and technological breakthroughs shaping the race to superintelligence.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Meta and Microsoft pull back their Claude plans 2) Are standard models like Muse Spark good enough? 3) Is Anthropic in trouble if its top clients cut back significantly? 4) Downloads have slowed for Claude Code ahead of Anthropic IPO 5) Elon says Grok Bot will use all models, including Anthropic's 6) Is Elon in the Harness Hive (yes) 7) Muse books the wrong doctor 8) Grok Bot leaks Shane Mac's banking details 9) Anthropic bans users who persistently bully Claude 10) Google releases Gemini....