About this episode

The episode discusses the latest tech news including OpenAI's release of GPT-6 and its implications, the Hugging Face attack, and Steve Ballmer's legacy.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI releases GPT-6 2) OpenAI President Greg Brockman says AGI is here 3) Is AGI more useful to OpenAI as something that never comes? 4) GPT-6 crushes the benchmarks 5) But where's the economic activity? 6) Are the latest models less monitorable? 7) OpenAI bots hijack a german website 8) The hugging face attack was worse than initially disclosed 9) Could agent swarms be used for good? 10) Steve Ballmer's legacy up in flames after Kawhi scandal 11) Developers, developers, developers, etc. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Alex Kantrowitz

Guest: Ranjan Roy

Topics covered

• OpenAI
• GPT-6
• AGI
• Hugging Face
• Steve Ballmer
• technology news

Keywords

• GPT-6
• OpenAI
• AGI
• Hugging Face
• Steve Ballmer
• technology news
• Ranjan Roy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Hugging Face

Places: Germany

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