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Hello Bluesky! I’m Alex Kantrowitz, host of Big Technology Podcast and author of Big Technology on Substack.

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The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
YouTube video by Alex Kantrowitz The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum

This month's Big Technology chat with @kantrowitz.bsky.social antrowitz: Moltbook, NVIDIA's "$100B" bet, an Anti-Google AI alliance, the new IPO race, and Apple's earnings....

04.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New Data: OpenAI’s Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies Google, Grok are gaining ground on ChatGPT as the chatbot market expands.

New Data: OpenAI’s Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies

AI market share over the past year:

- ChatGPT from 69.1% to 45.3%
- Gemini from 14.7% to 25.1%
- Grok from 1.6% to 15.2%
www.bigtechnology.com/p/new-data-o...

04.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New Data: OpenAI’s Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies Google, Grok are gaining ground on ChatGPT as the chatbot market expands.

OpenAI’s rivals are gaining ground despite overall market growth of 152% (Jan 2025–2026):

• Mobile Market Share: ChatGPT fell from 69.1% to 45.3%, while Gemini rose to 25.1% and Grok to 15.2%.

• Web Traffic: ChatGPT visits grew 50% (to 5.7 billion), compared to Gemini's 647% surge (to 2 billion).

03.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 23    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 2
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

This is nuts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

29.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved

Must watch. Look at what the U.S. government is doing to people. Even those who've gone through the legal immigration process. youtu.be/e4X0hI40a8A?...

19.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
YouTube video by Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival

Back with @kantrowitz.bsky.social this week talking through the prospects of an OpenAI IPO (eventually), the risks of "AGI or Bust", and the inevitability of a market correction and what that might mean for this moment (and more)...

07.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting A Middle Tennessee sheriff is defending the arrest of a man for posting an online meme quoting President Donald Trump.

Tenessee man spends month in jail over a Trump meme the sheriff didn't like www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

29.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Hype or True? | TWiT.TV With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and

🤖 Will NVIDIA's possible $100B investment in OpenAI deliver, or are AI bets spiraling out of control? This Week in Tech 1051 w/ @kantrowitz.bsky.social, @brianmc.bsky.social, @danshipper.bsky.social & @aripaparo.com breaks it down, plus Meta’s Vibes & Gen Z at work.
👉 buff.ly/Q3rtsZC
#AI #TechNews

29.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Hype or True? | TWiT.TV With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and

New Podcast Episode:
This Week in Tech: Hype or True?
Nvidia's $100 Billion Dollar Investment in OpenAI (Over Time)
with @kantrowitz.bsky.social, @brianmc.bsky.social, @danshipper.bsky.social, @aripaparo.com

28.09.2025 21:05 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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OpenAI & Microsoft Agree to Agree, Tentatively An important step – but one of many – as they clearly try to race towards PBC conversion...

Behold, the magic of taking 49 words and turning it into 3,000 words.

17.09.2025 12:13 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
YouTube video by Alex Kantrowitz Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler

Always great to chat with @kantrowitz.bsky.social , this month I think we really kick into gear after the bit about "SuperUltraMegaIntelligence" about half way through. All high heat from that point on...

05.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Making Of Dario Amodei AI’s most outspoken leader found direction in a personal tragedy.

I wrote about Dario www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making...

29.07.2025 17:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Enjoyed this conversation with Ed. Take a look!

23.07.2025 17:50 — 👍 69    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler Podcast Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 07/07/2025 · 58m

The stuff I naturally read and write about I will now *talk* about on a monthly basis with @kantrowitz.bsky.social. 🗣️

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

07.07.2025 21:44 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New rule: Reporters writing this type of story must flawlessly set up the beach chair before printing.

04.07.2025 21:09 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s kind of amazing that Elon’s lost control of Grok

21.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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Why Apple Must Buy Perplexity A bonafide AI partner in a moment of need. It's time for Tim Cook to make Apple's biggest acquisition in history.

Life moves fast in AI, huh @kantrowitz.bsky.social?

This morning: Apple should buy Perplexity
www.bigtechnology.com/p/why-apple-...

This afternoon: Apple discussed buying Perplexity
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

20.06.2025 22:18 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Questions for @edzitron.com?

18.06.2025 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apple’s $20 Billion Ticking Time Bomb If Google’s payments go away, Apple’s services business could take a massive hit.

Apple’s $20 Billion Ticking Time Bomb. Time to start thinking about what happens to the company if Google's annual payments go away. It's not pretty.
www.bigtechnology.com/p/apples-20-...

13.06.2025 22:17 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
YouTube video by Alex Kantrowitz What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler

If you want a quick hour of @kantrowitz.bsky.social and I breaking down WWDC 25, here you go. I think it's pretty good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

(and video form: youtu.be/e-jhzwOQBTw?...)

11.06.2025 19:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Apple, Design, and the Future of the Device In a world where screens fade away and AI steps forward, where is Apple's place?

In a world where screens fade away and AI steps forward, where is Apple's place?
www.bigtechnology.com/p/apple-desi...

08.06.2025 17:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@chrislhayes.bsky.social you were right!

05.06.2025 21:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did you see the latest newsletter & YouTube?

19.05.2025 22:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Big Technology Podcast · Episode

The best podcast I've found to keep abreast of AI developments is the Big Technology podcast. I'm glad they had @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social on this week, and @garymarcus.bsky.social last week. AI skepticism is growing!

open.spotify.com/episode/7uo3...

14.05.2025 22:31 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much! So happy you're listening :) Cc: @ranjan.bsky.social

06.05.2025 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
YouTube video by Alex Kantrowitz Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao

Thanks @kantrowitz.bsky.social for a refreshingly unbiased discussion of China’s AI efforts with Grace Shao. youtu.be/pksvCuoCOWs?...

22.04.2025 03:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Why AI is the New Social Media Companionship is now the No. 1 use case for generative AI, filling a void Facebook could not.

As Zuckerberg testified that people spend less time with friend content than ever before, OpenAI released a new model that will be a friend that shares with you. Now that AIs have personalities, AI is the new social media. www.bigtechnology.com/p/why-ai-is-...

18.04.2025 18:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Social media succeeded by playing to outrage while AI is succeeding just by being useful. Both are discovery tools. Why the difference?

18.04.2025 03:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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OpenAI is going to call GPT-5 AGI, lock it in

17.04.2025 00:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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