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Google Alumni Turn Up the Pressure, Plus Softbank’s Latest AI Push 4/23/24
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6 minutes
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Apr 23, 2024
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Two Google alumni are among those now turning up the pressure on their former employer. Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity and Dario Amodei of Anthropic are both leading upstart gen AI native companies. This time around, they have less to lose and are unafraid of taking on the giants. Plus, Softbank is reportedly now sinking nearly a billion dollars into developing a new generative AI model -- but is it too little, too late?
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Apr 23, 2024
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Podcast episode
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Analyzing the Market Response to Russian Banking Sanctions, Software Plays Amid the Ongoing Crisis & Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on New Product Announcements: Our anchors begin today’s show with CNBC’s Leslie Picker breaking down the effects that sanctioning Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system could have on U.S. financial institutions, and CNBC’s Mike Santoli profiles the trading response to the crisis in Eastern Europe. Then, Wedgewood Partners CIO David Rolfe takes a deeper dive into the market fallout surrounding the conflict, and Former Facebook Chief Security Officer and Stanford Internet Observatory Director Alex Stamos argues for stricter penalties from social media platforms targeting Russian misinformation. Next, Citi analyst Tyler Radke discusses software plays amid the broader geopolitical tensions, and chipmaker Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon joins in a first-on interview from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Later, CNBC’s Shepard Smith reports on the latest dev by TechCheck