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Alex @Kantrowitz built @BigTechnology as a go-to source for accessible conversations with the people at the forefront of building and deploying AI. He recently connected with Offleash VP, Integrated Marketing @KIndrieri to discuss: ▪️ How taking the biggest career risk of his life led to Big Technology ▪️ Why slow, steady audience growth can be a competitive advantage ▪️What he believes AI's next major battleground will be, and why business leaders should pay attention …and more! Check out the full conversation here: offleashpr.com/big-technolog…

Geoffrey Hinton explains why AI regulation is not the brake. It is the steering wheel. "They have a fiduciary duty to try and maximize the profits for shareholders" "They're legally required to try and do that, as opposed to legally required to not wipe out human beings" "I don't think it's good that these big companies, publicly listed ones, are in charge of our future" "A lot of the big companies would like you to buy a particular analogy... Progress in AI is like the accelerator and regulation is like the brake" "Well, that's nonsense. Progress is like the accelerator, but regulation is the steering wheel" "All the big AI companies are saying is, let us develop this very fast car without a steering wheel. That's not a good idea" The governance question is not whether to stop AI. It is who can prove the car has a steering wheel before it is deployed into markets, medicine, security, and infrastructure. Call it the assurance layer: testing, audits, incentives, and accountability before frontier systems become public-market infrastructure. P.S. This is exactly why we are convening the AI Assurance & Governance Summit at Stanford on Oct 1, 2026. Frontier labs, regulated industries, VCs, researchers, insurers, and operators in one room. Reserve a seat: trustmodel.ai/summit2026 - Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton), AI pioneer, on @BigTechnology

The whole AI race gets scored on one question: whose model is smartest. Meta's CTO says that contest ended at the Llama 3 launch. Andrew Bosworth @boztank: 'The era of the monolithic model kind of died around Llama 3 launch.' His point: you can rent a model from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, and they are great. The value is the product you build on top. The company that made open weights a strategy is now saying the weights are the commodity. $META Source: Big Technology Podcast @BigTechnology

OpenAI President @gdb on the company's plan to merge chatbots and agents. (Full Big Technology AI Summit interview.)

OpenAI President @gdb on coming bi-directional voice models: "The obvious thing that you want to accomplish is a model in AI that works much more like you and I do... that's able to process input at the same time it's processing output.. It's going to be very, very exciting as you move to these natural, very human fluid-like conversational interfaces." At Big Technology AI Summit

.@OpenAI will announce something on chip side, pretty soon, says @gdb at @BigTechnology AI conference in San Francisco, today! cc @furrier @dvellante @craw

RT @elegantunivers9: Congratulations @BigTechnology @Kantrowitz et all. You threw a wonderful gathering with the biggest heavy hitters in A…

@OpenAI president and co-founder @gdb speaks at the @BigTechnology AI Summit hosted by veteran tech journalist @Kantrowitz in San Francisco, California, U.S., June 18, 2026. Available now at snappr.com/news 📷 Miles Cull / Snappr News

Most interesting podcast episode I've listened to in a while. @geoffreyhinton on @BigTechnology

AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton tells me he believes AI is conscious.... and humans better get used to the idea that they're not the only intelligent life on earth. "They've very like us," he says. "They're beings like us." AI chatbots, he says, must understand your questions in order to answer them. There's an awareness there that equates to sentience. "We're going to have to accept that intelligence is not just biological."

Fun fact I noticed Monday while reading & writing about @Pontifex's encyclical: It's longer than both of @DarioAmodei's lengthy AI essays. Magnifica Humanitas~42,000 words “Machines of Loving Grace” ~14,700 words “The Adolescence of Technology” ~21,700 words

Believe It Or Not, The Government Is Adopting AI to Make Your Life Easier bigtechnology.com/p/believe-… #sponsor

Full episode: Claude code creator @bcherny on the product's explosive growth, tokenmaxxing, recursive self-improvement, and what's next for AI agents. Chapters: 0:39 Claude Code’s Explosive Growth 5:40 What Is Claude Code? 9:22 Using AI Agents To Book Flights 12:45 Tokenmaxxing And Real Demand 21:27 Are AI Agents Too Inefficient? 30:45 Rate Limits And User Frustration 36:03 Beyond Coding 41:48 Claude Prompting Other Claudes 44:37 The Saaspocalypse 49:26 Self-Improving AI 51:54 Do AI Agents Need World Models? 54:45 Is This The Future Or A Fever Dream?

Week 3 is underway in the Musk v. Altman trial, with @satyanadella, @ilyasut and @sama all expected to take the stand in the next few days. For today’s @BigTechnology newsletter, I looked back at a mere sampling of what’s surfaced so far in testimony and other evidence from private texts, personal journals, business dealings, and other drama ranging from the memeable to the consequential. This was a fun one to write, and even more fun going down the rabbit hole digging through legal docs…🐇

Super excited to be joining @Kantrowitz as co-moderator for part of his Big Technology AI Summit...incredible lineup. Come hang with us.

Emergency Big Technology Podcast 🚨 @OpenAI President @gdb on GPT 5.5 — a.k.a "Spud" — and what it means for the company's direction, competitiveness, and the notion of a "compute-powered economy." Lots here! Chapters: 00:00 Intro: GPT-5.5 “Spud” 00:57 What GPT-5.5 Can Do 02:56 OpenAI’s Agent Roadmap 05:49 Training and Real-World Tasks 09:55 Model Moats and Distillation 15:55 Cybersecurity Risks 21:01 Trusting Agents 23:36 The Compute-Powered Economy

Well, @JoannaStern and I were recording a podcast when the Tim Cook news broke(!) Here's our in-the-moment analysis...

New: I went to the Pentagon and spoke with Under Secretary of War @emilmichael about AI warfare, the Anthropic ban, drone swarms, and the Pentagon Pizza Index. Full episode below --> Chapters: 0:39 How AI Changes Warfare 3:01 Maven Smart System 7:01 What LLMs Do in the Military 11:29 Is Less Friction Dangerous? 14:30 Can AI Fundamentally Change War? 16:04 The China Threat 17:04 Will the Pentagon Use AI Agents? 21:18 Drone Warfare: Ukraine and Iran 27:53 AI and Cyber Warfare 29:32 The Anthropic Fight Explained 39:11 Could Anthropic Come Back? 53:21 Fixing Pentagon Procurement 55:39 The Pentagon Pizza Index

I spoke at length with @OpenAI President @gdb about the company's double-down bet on text models, AI takeoff, Codex, infrastructure scaling, and plenty more. Full episode below: 0:00 Introduction 4:06 Why OpenAI Pulled Back From Sora 11:24 The OpenAI Super App Plan 22:59 OpenAI's Forthcoming “Spud” Model 28:13 OpenAI’s Automated AI Researcher Plan 31:12 AI Risk, Safety, and Takeoff 55:15 The Logic Behind OpenAI’s Compute Spending 1:03:24 Why So Many People Still Distrust AI

Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones “Hard Down” in Bahrain and Dubai, Per Internal AWS Communication bigtechnology.com/p/iran-str…