Times Tech
Will Morley
5 episodes
Jaron Lanier on Silicon Valley’s new gods and AI addiction
1 Nov · 29 min
- Jaron Lanier argues the AI industry has become addicted to addiction as a business model, repeating social media's mistake.
- Lanier says AI filters humanity's creativity through companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which do not pay the sources they draw from.
What Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals about tech and power
29 Oct · 22 min
- Anthropic's 355-page prospectus shows $16.2bn in revenue for the first half of this year, but losses doubled to $80.7bn over the same period.
- Seven founders, including CEO Dario Amodei, hold a single share giving them a 50.1% voting majority that outside investors cannot match, a structure the prospectus warns may make it harder to replace directors and management.
Bear Robotics co-founder on using AI to teach robots how to think
24 Oct · 33 min
- Brennand Pierce, Bear Robotics founder and CEO, says humanoid robots are promising but immature, with factories likely to see early adopters in about five years.
- Pierce says factories need robots that work 99.99 percent of the time, while pilots reach only 98 to 99 percent, so Bear Robotics targets simpler jobs like warehouse tote handling.
Bending Spoons CEO on going public, buying old tech brands and The Matrix
17 Oct · 29 min
- Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari says going public brings cheaper capital for its capital-intensive business, but also publication burdens, share-price pressure and constant scrutiny he does not enjoy.
- Ferrari says Bending Spoons chose Nasdaq because the New York Stock Exchange was the only real alternative, arguing that Europe benefits when companies hire and build skills locally, not where shares trade.
Hebbia’s George Sivulka: “Bots will be most of the economy within decade”
7 Sept 2024 · 46 min
- Hebbia CEO George Sivulka, 26, says most AI startups build one-off tools while real work requires multi-step agents that orchestrate many models.
- Sivulka says Hebbia stopped training its own models around 2020 or 2021, betting that value sits in the product layer and remaining LLM agnostic.