System Crash

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The Looming Specter of the TikTok Ban

2024-12-2055:31

After hearing from a very special guest, Brian and Paris consider: Is the US really about to ban TikTok? If nothing changes come January 19th, it will. We explain why Congress *really* moved to shut down the massive social media app, and what might happen next, now that the Supreme Court is getting involved and Trump's changed his mind. Plus, Elon Musk points his cash cannon at the UK, and Amazon goes on strike. Mentioned this week:Shoshana Wodinsky explained why the data argument about ...

The Great Crypto Conquest of 2024 ft. Molly White

2024-12-1301:04:001

Brian Merchant and Paris Marx are back with the very first guest of System Crash: Molly White! With Molly’s help, we walk through the biggest stories in the crypto world. We explore the resurgence of crypto, how its backers influenced the election and won Trump’s favor, what the crypto industry wants from the incoming administration—and how it plans to wield power. Mentioned this week:Molly White is the creator of Web3 is going just great and Follow the Crypto.Paris wrote about the retur...

ChatGPT’s Sad Second Birthday

2024-12-0653:01

Brian Merchant and Paris Marx are back to celebrate ChatGPT’s second birthday while questioning how OpenAI is really doing as it embraces advertising and the rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk continues to escalate.Mentioned this week:Brian has a new report out with the AI Now Institute: AI-Generated Business: AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Business Model,Paris co-authored a white paper to make an ambitious case for countries to reclaim their digital sovereignty. On Disconnect, he w...

Please Reboot Your System

2024-11-2254:51

The system is crashing, and we’re here to guide you through the wreckage. In the inaugural episode of System Crash, Brian Merchant and Paris Marx dig into how the alliance of Donald Trump and Elon Musk—along with his Silicon Valley cohort—is poised to transform both our politics and the tech world. Plus, how generative AI is trained on thousands of Hollywood scripts and why Bluesky gives us (a least a little) hope.Mentioned this week:Sam Biddle on how Trump is a win for tech’s “warrior class”...

System Crash is Coming

2024-11-1900:47

The system, clearly, has crashed — and we’re here to help you dig through the wreckage. System Crash is a weekly tech news show willing to tell the hard truths about how tech — and the titans who own and operate it — is really transforming the world, hosted by Paris Marx and Brian Merchant. Tune in Friday for the first episode.Theme music is “Dystopia” by YACHT.Support the show

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