Matt Simon
July 12, 2023
Wed. 07/12 – Microsoft Wins Big In The FTC Case
A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to the Nothing Phone (2). And while the market caps of the big players might have been boosted by AI, might the need for on premises AI lead to a unique opening for the likes of Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise?
Guests: Avi Loeb , Connie Chan , Peter Kafka , Chris Messina , Joshua Schachter , Brady Dale , Josh Constine , Alex Kantrowitz , Rene Ritchie , Bryan Salesky , James McLeod , Alex Wilhelm , Christopher Mims , Steven Levy , Lloyd B. Minor, MD , Sam Rutherford , Angela Strange , Dan Frommer , Will Martin , Christina Farr , Flynn Coleman , Mark Bergen , Mike Murphy , Jay Yarow , Farhad Manjoo , Steve Case , Harry McCracken , Satish Jeyachandran , Gary Marcus , John Voorhees , Julia Alexander , Charles Fishman , Charles Nix , M.G. Siegler , Rafat Ali , Garry Tan , Noah Smith , Katie Roof , Natasha Mascarenhas , Christine Hall , Ilya Rosenberg , Andrew Chen , Kayvon Beykpour , Jackson Dame , SHL0MS , Janine Yorio , Ross Mayfield , Sonal Chokshi , Kaya Yurieff , Gregarious Narain , Nigel Pickles , Reesha Howard , Tony Haile , Ed Zitron , Joseph Flaherty , Chris Fralic , Romeen Sheth , Robert Scoble , Kyle Hilliard , Rob Maurer , Ali Tamaseb , Howard Lindzon , Nick Quah , Peter Linder , Timothy B. Lee , Jacob Ward , Victor Luckerson , Taylor Lorenz , Jason Schreier , Casey Newton , Justin Brookman , Matt Stroud , Harry Campbell , Federico Viticci , Bill Gattle , Alison Griswold , Jason Rowley , Dave Bittner , Dan Keyserling , Dexter Thillien , Shira Ovide , Eric Jackson , Simon Owens , Matt Simon , Brian Heater , Aaron Lammer , Matt Stoller , Joe Fassler , Mike Davidson , Jason Del Rey , Mark Gurman , Benedict Evans , Charlie O'Donnell
June 15, 2019
(Bonus) Among the Amazon Robots With Matt Simon
That Wired longread that I suggested yesterday, about Amazon’s warehouse robots really stuck with me for personal reasons you’ll hear in a second. I talked to the author of the piece, Matt Simon, not only cause I wanted more flavor on what it was like to work with these things, but because he also raises interesting ideas about human/robot symbiosis. In short, the robot apocalypse might still be coming, but not today. And for the foreseeable future, that might be the growth industry for humans: ...
Guest: Matt Simon