Big Technology

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's Labor Implications, Investment Frenzy

What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.

Oct 9 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

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Will AI Slop Kill The Creator Economy?

Why online content creators are at risk, but only a small segment of them.

Oct 3 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

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September 2025

Amazon's Advertising Secret Sauce: Tech, Video, And The 'Holy Grail' Of Data

Amazon built a world class digital ad business almost in secret, with the most valuable data an advertiser could want.

Sep 26 • 

Mike Shields

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How Amazon Built The World's Fastest Growing Ad Business

The definitive, inside story of how Amazon joined Facebook and Google as the internet's third dominant ad seller.

Sep 19 • 

Mike Shields

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Apple Has New iPhones. Should We Care?

The annual iPhone release event was once the height of the tech calendar. In the age of generative AI, that's no longer the case.

Sep 12 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

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The Three Faces Of Generative AI

After the AI field spent years working to make its models smarter, three distinct use cases are emerging.

Sep 5 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

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August 2025

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next

A conversation about what OpenAI's long-anticipated flagship model tells us about different forms intelligence and AI's trajectory from here.

Aug 8 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

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July 2025

The Making Of Dario Amodei

AI’s most outspoken leader found direction in a personal tragedy.

Jul 29 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

163

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Condoleezza Rice: Pulling University Funding Threatens U.S. Tech Dominance

The former U.S. Secretary of State and Stanford Hoover Institution Director says “we don't have a Plan B” if we crush university research.

Jul 21 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

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Amazon Faces a Complex China Calculus as Trade War Continues

Over the past decade, Amazon tied itself to China. Now, it'll have to get creative to stop its pricing from outpacing inflation. I think there's a way…

Jul 11 • 

Kristi Coulter

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Why Our AI Diagnostician Outperforms Doctors

As AI models get commoditized, the value will be added in that final layer of orchestration, Suleyman says.

Jul 3 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

36

June 2025

Big Technology Turns Five: Here’s What I’ve Learned

A half-decade in, Big Technology is alive and kicking. Journalism leads, it takes a village, and YouTube and ChatGPT are surprising new sources of…

Jun 27 • 

Alex Kantrowitz

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