Ep. #652: Eric Holder, Nancy Mace, Ro Khanna
Bill’s guests are Eric Holder, Nancy Mace, Ro Khanna (Originally aired 3/15/24)
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#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"
Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
- (00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images
- (00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
- (00:12:40) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
- (00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos
- (00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:04) A Waymo robotaxi hit a cyclist in San Francisco – here’s what happened
- (00:23:30) Canon plans to disrupt chipmaking with low-cost “stamp” machine
- (00:27:33) US industry group calls for multilateral chip export controls to address disadvantage over Korea, other allies
- (00:30:10) U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company
- (00:32:24) Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model
- (00:42:46) Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI
- (00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5
- (00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
- (00:53:20) Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors
- (01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
- (01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
- (01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design
- (01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
- (01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:22) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
- (01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
- (01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
- (01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
- (01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
- (01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
- (01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
- (01:34:38) Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
- (01:36:20) Outro
Why the euro is on a losing streak
Norway’s $1.4tn sovereign wealth fund has become the biggest shareholder in UBS, a landmark antitrust trial between Google and the US government starts today, and the FT’s Mary McDougall explains why the euro is having such a tough time.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Norway’s $1.4tn oil fund becomes top UBS shareholder
Google prepares for biggest US antitrust showdown since Microsoft
Euro suffers eight-week losing streak as economy falters
Will the ECB deliver one more rate rise?
The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Monique Mulima, Monica Lopez, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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Trump Arrest Fallout
The View co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin joins Kara to discuss the fallout from former President Donald Trump's arrest. What does it mean for his campaign? How should presidential hopefuls manage this moment? Has media coverage of Trump’s chaos improved? Plus, UK privacy regulators fine TikTok, and Tim Cook himself warns parents to limit screen times for kids.
You can find Alyssa at @Alyssafarah on Twitter, and on The View.
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The Moment I Hit My Breaking Point with D.C. Corruption | Matt Gaetz | POLITICS | Rubin Report
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Rep. Matt Gaetz about Washington, D.C., corruption; how corporate lobbyists write most legislation; the real reason he fought for more concessions during Kevin McCarthy’s speaker vote; why his plan to break up Big Tech is more necessary than ever; how the “Twitter files” confirmed conservatives' worst fears about social media censorship; why he and Dan Crenshaw disagree about Ukraine military aid; what he thinks will happen in the Trump vs. DeSantis battle; and much more.
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Facebook Lawsuit Rally with Steve Kirsch
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E42: China's tech crackdown, CRISPR breakthrough, practical climate change solutions & more
Show Notes:
0:00 Quick vaccine passports update
17:15 China's massive tech crackdown: reasons, ramifications, & more
37:37 How will large firms & institutional investors react to the CCP's recent regulatory moves, mechanics of delisting public companies
41:25 CRISPR breakthrough, future possibilities
50:18 Taking the right approach to climate change with respect to population growth & consumption, carbon markets, practical solutions
1:06:03 Quentin Tarantino's approach & impact on Sacks, Chamath's poker story
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Referenced in the show:
NYT - N.F.L. Sets Stiff Penalties for the Unvaccinated, Jolting Teams
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/sports/football/nfl-vaccination-policy.html
WSJ - Google, Facebook to Require Vaccinations for On-Campus Workers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-require-vaccinations-for-on-campus-workers-11627491628
AP - Biden orders tough new vaccination rules for federal workers
Bloomberg - NYC’s Top Dining Rooms Will Start Requiring Proof of Vaccination
NBC Chicago - Scams and Fake Vaccination Cards: Lollapalooza Put To The Test
WSJ - Covid-19 Pill Race Heats Up as Japanese Firm Vies With Pfizer, Merck
WSJ - ByteDance Shelved IPO Intentions After Chinese Regulators Warned About Data Security
Reuters - ByteDance founder tells staff he’s shifting away from CEO’s daily work -sources
Bloomberg - China Weighs Unprecedented Penalty for Didi After U.S. IPO
Seeking Alpha - SoftBank's Didi stake loses $4B in value amid regulatory crackdown
Bloomberg - China Education Tycoon Loses $15 Billion as Shares Tumble
Bloomberg - China to Overhaul Education Sector ‘Hijacked by Capital’
BBC - Tencent shares slide after Beijing crackdown on music rights
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57966023
NPR - He Inherited A Devastating Disease. A CRISPR Gene-Editing Breakthrough Stopped It
Science Magazine - CRISPR creates first genetically modified marsupials
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/crispr-creates-first-genetically-modified-marsupials
Google adds RCS encryption to Messages / Congress gearing up to fight big tech / Windows 11 leaks
Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior editor Tom Warren about leaks of Microsoft's Windows 11 UI and announcements from E3 2021.
Verge politics reporter Makena Kelly explains how Republicans and Democrats are gearing up to fight tech monopolies.
Verge managing editor Alex Cranz joins the show to talk about Google's updates to Messages and a bunch of gadget news from this week.
Further reading:
Amazon’s COVID-19 test is now available to consumers
Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 percent effective
Pharma is winning the big business popularity contest
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more
Microsoft Teams’ new front row layout arrives later this year
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now doubles as the company’s chairman
Microsoft announces Xbox TV app and its own xCloud ...
Microsoft is bringing next-gen Xbox games to the Xbox One with xCloud
Even the Xbox app has stories now
The Xbox Series X mini fridge will be available this holiday season
Microsoft Flight Simulator is landing on Xbox Series X / S consoles on July 27th
The best trailers of E3 2021
Tech antitrust pioneer Lina Khan will officially lead the FTC
How Republicans and Democrats are gearing up to fight tech monopolies
House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to unwind tech monopolies
Senate bill would make it easier to cancel a subscription online after a free trial
Google’s first retail store opens this week
Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android
Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody
Honor confirms Google’s apps will return to its phones with new 50 series
Beats Studio Buds review: big ambition, imperfect execution
Ikea and Sonos announce picture frame speaker, coming July 15th for $199
Watch the debut of Tesla Model S Plaid, the ‘quickest production car ever made’
The Realme GT lays claim to OnePlus’ ‘flagship killer’ mantle
Oppo’s rollable concept phone is pure potential lacking polish
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A Crisis of Trust with Richard Edelman, Emily Chang, and Helena Maus on 4B with Margit
Every year, Edelman publishes a trust barometer. This year, trust in most of our social institutions — and especially in media — was down. Margit asks Richard Edelman (CEO of Edelman), Emily Chang (Executive Producer at Bloomberg), and Helena Maus (CEO of Archetype) how real is the crisis of trust in media and beyond; what’s behind it; how does it relate to the perceived friction between tech and the media… and what will it take to (re)build trust.
"4B with Margit" is a Clubhouse show for raw and unfiltered advice from comms and marketing experts who have seen it all, as well as insider stories from the builders and pioneers who were in the trenches. Think “Scandal” meets “Halt and Catch Fire.” Catch it live Wednesdays 4-5 PST.
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Spotify's big plan for podcasting / Where 5G is headed in 2021 / Everything to know about Paramount Plus
Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk with Verge reporter Allison Johnson about T-Mobile bringing back their unlimited 5G plan with no throttling, the results of the C-band spectrum auction, and the state of 5G in America.
Ashley Carman returns to the show to discuss Spotify's big event this week announcing their plans for podcasters and artists.
Julia Alexander joins to report on the details on Paramount Plus' streaming catalog.
Further reading:
Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot vaccine is effective, FDA confirms
One Medical gave COVID-19 vaccines to ineligible people, NPR report says
Stretched vaccine timelines re-enter the spotlight
COVID-19 vaccines are starting to work in the US
MWC insists on holding potential COVID-19 superspreader event in Barcelona
What is 5G, and why is it kind of bad right now?
Dish is confident in its plan to offer 5G in its first major cities by end of Q3 2021
T-Mobile just brought back a true unlimited data plan with 5G and no throttling
T-Mobile has 5G leverage and isn’t afraid to use it
Verizon and AT&T spent big in FCC C-band auction for 5G ...
The Terrible T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Must Be Undone
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explains how the company plans to help artists (and itself) make money
Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year
Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets
Twitter planning a feature to let you auto-block and mute abusive accounts
Apple Fitness Plus review
Everything to know about Paramount Plus, ViacomCBS’s new version of CBS All Access
Shows based on Italian Job, Fatal Attraction, Flashdance, and more heading to Paramount Plus
Frasier revival in development for Paramount Plus
Paramount Plus is proof we’ve hit peak streaming
Are The Office and Friends bets paying off for Peacock and HBO Max?
Marvel’s Loki series will premiere on Disney Plus on June 11th
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Australia's bargain with Google and Facebook / Apple TV on Chromecast / Nintendo Direct's biggest announcements
Nilay Patel talks with Adi Robertson and Casey Newton about what Australia's News Media Bargaining Code means for Google, Facebook, and the open web in Australia.
Chris Welch and Julia Alexander join the show to discuss the new Amazon Fire TV stick, Apple TV on Chromecast, and the state of streaming services in 2021.
Andru Marino and Taylor Lyles discuss the announcements from this week's Nintendo Direct.
Further reading:
Maps show ZIP codes hit hardest by COVID-19 have low vaccination rates
Finicky COVID-19 vaccines raise the stakes of power outages
Vaccine rollout won’t be equitable unless health care reckons with racism
If you’re vaccinated against COVID-19, you won’t have to quarantine if you’re exposed
How to score a COVID-19 vaccine appointment
Texas freeze risks slowing COVID-19 progress
Facebook will block Australian users and publishers from sharing news links in response to new bill
Why Google caved to Australia, and Facebook didn’t
Facebook employee warned it used ‘deeply wrong’ ad metrics to boost revenue
Facebook’s Australian media ban is taking down official government pages
Apple won’t have to allow App Store alternatives on iOS after North Dakota bill fails
Amazon Fire TV Stick (2020) review: just get a 4K model
Apple TV app now available on the latest Google Chromecast
YouTube TV offering HBO Max, Showtime, and Starz for $5 less in new entertainment bundle
Donald Glover’s reported Amazon deal could lead to a more curated Prime Video
HBO Max is ordering way more kids’ content to compete with Netflix and Disney Plus
The 20 biggest announcements from today’s Nintendo Direct
Android 12 developer preview is available now with many under-the-hood updates
How to easily install the Android 12 developer preview
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E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
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Referenced in the show:
M1 Money Stock
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
Friedberg's Spy Situation
Sacks' thoughts on Wilkinson cancellation
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1352432977460957185
Show Notes:
0:00 Bestie intro, Inauguration talk, Impeachment implications
20:22 Trump as a successful change agent, Facebook's Oversight Board overseeing Trump's appeal
34:07 Will Big Tech be regulated like utilities? Friedberg tells a spy story
44:15 Breaking down the $1.9T Stimulus package, needs for infrastructure bill, worst-case scenarios
55:06 How the tech ecosystem plays into inequality & how to fix it
1:04:00 Recalling California Governor Gavin Newsom, California's lockdown incompetence
1:17:32 Sacks rebukes cancel culture, this time from the right-wing mob
The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp
In a bonus episode of The Vergecast, Nilay Patel talks with Verge policy editor Russell Brandom, senior reporter Adi Robertson, and contributing editor Casey Newton about the FTC suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Further reading:
The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp
The good and the bad in the government’s case against Facebook
Facebook calls antitrust lawsuits ‘revisionist history’
Instagram would be better off without Facebook
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The unravelling of the Ant IPO
The IPO of Jack Ma's Ant Group would have been the largest in history: it was expected to raise $37bn at a valuation of $316bn. But just days before the stock market listing, China called it off. The FT's Ryan McMorrow and Hudson Lockett report on what led to Beijing pulling the plug, and what it means for China's private sector. Further reading: 'The party is pushing back': why Beijing reined in Jack Ma and Ant.
Review clips: Reuters, World Economic Forum, CNA, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance.
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Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election
I’ve been fascinated by the sharp change in how the tech platforms — particularly the big social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and to some degree, YouTube — are acting since the 2020 election. It’s become routine to see President Donald Trump’s posts tagged as misinformation or worse. Facebook is limiting the reach of hyper-viral stories it can’t verify, Twitter is trying to guard against becoming a dumping ground for foreign actors trying to launder stolen secrets, and conservatives are abandoning both platforms en masse, hoping to find more congenial terrain on newcomers like Parler.
So is Big Tech finally doing its job, and taking some responsibility for its role in our democracy? Are they overreaching, and becoming the biased censors so many feared? Are they simply so big that anything they do is in some way the wrong choice, and antitrust is the only solution?
Casey Newton has spent the past decade covering Silicon Valley for The Verge, CNET, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Today, he writes Platformer, a daily blog and newsletter focused primarily on the relationship between the big tech platforms and democracy. He’s my go-to for questions like these, and so I went to him. We discuss:
The lessons the platforms learned the hard way in 2016
What Facebook and Twitter got right -- and wrong -- this election cycle
The dissonance between Facebook and Twitter’s progressive employees and broader user base
The problem of trying to be neutral when both sides really aren’t the same
Whether Facebook and Twitter handled the Hunter Biden New York Post story correctly
Whether major tech platforms are biased against conservatives
Why YouTube has been so much less aggressive than Facebook and Twitter on moderation
The recent rise of Parler, the Twitter alternative that conservatives are flocking to by the hundreds of thousands
What Biden administration’s tech agenda could look like
The Section 230 provision at the heart of the debate over content moderation
How the big tech CEOs differ from each other ideologically
The problems that antitrust enforcement against tech platforms will solve -- and the problems it won’t solve
And much more
Book recommendations:
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
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The DOJ's Case Against Google
Roger McNamee joins Scott to break down the US Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Google and how monopolies stifle innovation. They also discuss the sharing economy, how the social platforms tear at our society, and the remedies that can be put in place moving forward.
Roger is an activist, investor, and musician. Follow him on Twitter, @Moonalice.
This week's Office Hours: stocks Scott has his eye on, industries Zoom could enter into, and thoughts on Bitcoin.
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“You’ve got (no) mail.”
The Trump campaign smashes that reset button, the President tries to undermine the election by attacking mail-in voting and the Postal Service, Republicans refuse to extend unemployment benefits, and Joe Biden gets close to selecting his running mate. Then journalist Kara Swisher talks to Jon Lovett about Trump’s threat to ban TikTok and the tech CEOs who recently testified on Capitol Hill.
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Why everyone hates Big Tech with Matt Yglesias of The Weeds
Vox Senior Correspondent and host of The Weeds Matt Yglesias joins Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel in this special crossover episode to explain what Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which allows platforms to circumnavigate liability for user content, really means. They also discuss Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up big tech platforms, and how it may or may not fix anything.
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Silicon Valley’s Rep. Ro Khanna talks tech regulation
On this week’s interview episode, Nilay is joined by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Verge policy reporter Makena Kelly to discuss Congress’ plans to regulate Big Tech in the new year. Earlier this month, Democrats were able to take back a majority in the House of Representatives, and after blockbuster events this year like Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, lawmakers are gearing up to rein in these Silicon Valley giants.
Khanna, who represents the California district that houses the Apple and Google campuses, was tasked with developing a set of principles these companies should abide by when it comes to issues like privacy, net neutrality, and anti-competitive behavior. He made the rounds, consulting with think tanks, the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, and the tech companies themselves. From those discussions, Khanna was able to put forth a framework of 10 rights US citizens should have when they’re on the internet.
Khanna’s set of principles is called the “Internet Bill of Rights,” and with Democrats recapturing the House, tech leaders like Khanna have a chance to codify ideas like these into laws.
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