Elon’s Timeline Takeover, Bing’s AI Freakout, and the Sordid Affairs of Sumner Redstone
A week of surprising resignations: the FTC’s lone Republican commissioner announced her departure in the Wall Street Journal, and Scotland’s First Minister will step down after drama around a transgen...
17 Feb 20231h 13min
UFOs, The State of Tech, and Guest Lakshmi Rengarajan
Kara and Scott talk Super Bowl ads and legacy blue check wars. And what on Earth (or Mars?) is the deal with all of these UFOs? Plus, the state of Big Tech: the layoffs, the opportunities, the A.I. Al...
14 Feb 20231h 16min
AI Blunders, The GOP Cries Censorship, and Adam Neumann’s Comeback
Kara and Scott discuss the latest changes at Disney, including layoffs, and the expensive mistake made by Google's chatbot. Also in the mix: Adam Neumann is back, and has invented apartments! Plus, ho...
10 Feb 20231h
Balloon-Gate, The AI Arms Race, and Guest Jerry Saltz
Kara and Scott discuss Google's newest effort to compete with ChatGPT, the Koch network's anti-Trump efforts, and the latest on Elon Musk’s many legal battles. Plus, of course, the fallout from the Ch...
7 Feb 20231h 16min
Meta Shakes Off the FTC, and AAG Jonathan Kanter takes on Google
The Fed eases up on the brakes, Elon Musk looks for new ways to monetize Twitter, and Snap has another rough quarter. Also: Meta may have prevailed in a fight with the FTC. Today’s Friend of Pivot is ...
3 Feb 20231h 26min
Sick Day! Tinder Changed the Game - from Land of the Giants: Dating Games
Today Kara’s out sick and we’re sharing an episode of Land of the Giants. When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone an...
31 Jan 202336min
Trump is Back on Meta, The DOJ Sues Google, and No More Murdoch Merger
Kara and Scott discuss the Bad Blood between the Senate Judiciary Committee and Live Nation, Walmart giving workers a raise, and the cancelled Murdoch merger of Fox and News Corp. Also, will you see m...
27 Jan 202349min
Netflix Shakeup, More Tech Layoffs, and Guest Cory Doctorow
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course,...
24 Jan 20231h 12min
