About this episode

The episode discusses the activation of the world's largest privately owned laser by Xcimer, Uber's AI spending cuts, and Martin Scorsese's use of AI for storyboarding.

Fusion startup Xcimer fired up the world's largest privately owned laser. Also, Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible. And, the world's most famous living directors is using AI solely for storyboarding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• fusion startup
• laser technology
• AI in business
• Hollywood and AI
• storyboarding

Keywords

• laser
• fusion startup
• Uber
• AI
• Martin Scorsese
• storyboarding
• Hollywood

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Xcimer, Uber

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