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Geoffrey Hinton is an AI pioneer, a Nobel Prize winner, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Hinton joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss AI’s rapid progress, why he believes today’s systems already understand us, and why he thinks superintelligence may arrive ...  Show more

M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass.org. Siegler joins Big Technology to discuss whether Google is falling behind in AI as OpenAI and Anthropic push ahead with coding agents and super-app ambitions. Tune in to hear why AI agents may reshape the way people use the web, email, a ...  Show more

The United States has long been associated with a very harsh criminal justice system with, in some cases, people serving long sentence for minor crimes. But attempts to reform the system have proven very difficult. In her new book Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movemen ...  Show more

In 2010, on the small woodsy campus of Sarah Lawrence College located in Yonkers, New York, 50 year old Lawrence Ray came to “crash” with his daughter Talia in her on-campus dorm town-house that she shared with several other students, ostensibly until he found a place to live ...

Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of fraud. We ask what lessons her downfall holds for Theranos’s high-profile backers—and for a startup culture of hype before science. As Apple crosses a $3trn valuation we examine the motives for its stop-start forays into the competitiv ...

Environmental law expert Pat Parenteau, a professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School, discusses the flood of lawsuits over the climate claims of food and beverage companies. California attorney Jeff Lewis of Jeff Lewis Law, discusses law firm Proskauer Rose suing its former ...  Show more