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Alex Kantrowitz

@kantrowitz.bsky.social
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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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Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
made a mark version of our chart
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 08/06/2026
Also threw in a couple potential wild cards when chatting through what we might hear during the WWDC keynote in my chat last week with @kantrowitz.bsky.social youtu.be/o4pwkwg0zfk?...
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Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 06/05/2026
"Nope. Not too simple to read it that way." Back on Big Technology Pod for my monthly chat with @kantrowitz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OIY...
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Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I had a wonderful time chatting with @kantrowitz.bsky.social about #forecasting this week! Check it out! #Prophecy #books #authors #podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbg...
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Are We Too Obsessed With AI Predictions? — With Carissa Véliz
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Marty Swant @martyswant.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We're just a few days from @sxsw.com! Anyone else going? As a preview, today's Big Technology newsletter looks at some of the AI-related themes, talks and news to expect in Austin. substack.com/home/post/p-... Read about SXSW and more from @kantrowitz.bsky.social and me in today's Agenda Setter.
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SXSW AI Preview, Oracle's Cuts Foreshadow Others?, AI Consciousness Debate
An AI-filled festival at Austin awaits. Here's what to look out for, and the likely news en route.
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 05/03/2026
Each month it seems like there's more – with higher stakes – to talk about w/ @kantrowitz.bsky.social... • Anthropic v. the US Government • Apple's AI Wearable Future • Netflix Walks Away from Warner Bros www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzhr...
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Dario’s Choice and Anthropic’s Future, Apple’s AI Devices, Netflix Loses WBD
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Grok is gaining on ChatGPT and Gemini. But kind of an ugly path to relevance. Grok in January 2025: 1.6% market share Grok in January 2026: 15.2% market share More in this week's Big Technology: www.bigtechnology.com/p/grok-is-ga...
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Grok Is Gaining on ChatGPT and Gemini. How It Got There Isn’t Pretty.
Elon Musk’s chatbot is on the rise, but the path it took to AI relevance is complicated.
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 04/02/2026
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....
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The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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...
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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.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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).
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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.
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This is nuts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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?...
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Inside ICE Detention: Stripped, Shackled, Starved
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 07/11/2025
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)...
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OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Tenessee man spends month in jail over a Trump meme the sheriff didn't like www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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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.
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 29/09/2025
🤖 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
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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
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 29/09/2025
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
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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
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 17/09/2025
Behold, the magic of taking 49 words and turning it into 3,000 words.
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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...
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 05/08/2025
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...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I wrote about Dario www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making...
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The Making Of Dario Amodei
AI’s most outspoken leader found direction in a personal tragedy.
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Enjoyed this conversation with Ed. Take a look!
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 07/07/2025
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...
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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
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New rule: Reporters writing this type of story must flawlessly set up the beach chair before printing.
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It’s kind of amazing that Elon’s lost control of Grok
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Ken Yeung @thekenyeung.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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...
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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.
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Questions for @edzitron.com?
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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-...
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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.
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com · 11/06/2025
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?...)
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What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations —  With M.G. Siegler
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In a world where screens fade away and AI steps forward, where is Apple's place? www.bigtechnology.com/p/apple-desi...
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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?
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@chrislhayes.bsky.social you were right!
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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...
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AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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Corwin of Down Under @corewin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Thanks @kantrowitz.bsky.social for a refreshingly unbiased discussion of China’s AI efforts with Grace Shao. youtu.be/pksvCuoCOWs?...
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Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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-...
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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.
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Social media succeeded by playing to outrage while AI is succeeding just by being useful. Both are discovery tools. Why the difference?
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
OpenAI is going to call GPT-5 AGI, lock it in
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alina @ramshackle78.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Really good talk with Grace Shao by @kantrowitz.bsky.social Recorded a month ago, so Grace added some notes on her substack aiproem.substack.com/p/podcast-th... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
Podcast Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 04/16/2025 · 1h 5m
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Upon further review, it turns out that social media is indeed biased
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Plenty of under appreciated risks for Big Tech as the tariff imbroglio rolls on www.bigtechnology.com/p/big-techs-...
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Big Tech’s Three Underappreciated Risks Following a Week of Tariff Unease
In a trade war over goods, can you strike back at services?
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Whoops
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The thing about the tariffs-as-a-negotiation-tactic play is it now takes more one bad thing to really send things off the rails
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Liberated
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TWiT Tech Podcasts @twit.tv · 31/03/2025
New Podcast Episode: This Week in Tech: Weak Perfection Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare with @leolaporte.me, @kantrowitz.bsky.social, @iainthomson.bsky.social, @byjacobward.bsky.social
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Weak Perfection | TWiT.TV
Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“Biblical demand”
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/03/2025
World History Encyclopedia, the second most visited history site, says its traffic fell 25% in Nov. 2024 after AI search tools began presenting its information (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The World History Encyclopedia lost 25% of its traffic since AI tools started surfacing its info. The web’s old deal (sites publish, search engines send traffic) is breaking. ChatGPT flipped the script, and now more sites will wall off content or die as ad revenue dries up. And the web gets worse
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As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What’s Next
World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. Then traffic dropped 25%.
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Corwin of Down Under @corewin.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Thanks @kantrowitz.bsky.social for the fantastic discussion with Yann LeCun about LLMs. What they can and can’t do currently. What’s needed to actually achieve reasoning and new discoveries. youtu.be/qvNCVYkHKfg?...
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Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. Then traffic dropped 25%. www.bigtechnology.com/p/as-ai-take...
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As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What’s Next
World History Encyclopedia CEO Jan van der Crabben saw his site show up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT. Then traffic dropped 25%.
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Pretty amazing how Elon Musk's X is now the greatest marketing tool for OpenAI, his arch rival, with all these Ghibli images filling the feed. h/t @mgsiegler.com
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wise words
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Alex Kantrowitz @kantrowitz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Maybe DOGEing Twitter's INFRA team wasn't the best idea, idk
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