Riding the Hype Cycle

Riding the Hype Cycle

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Big Tech’s Most Valuable Product Isn’t AI. It’s the Belief that AI is Inevitable - The Story

Do you work with machines, or for machines? Cory Doctorow, who coined the term “enshittification,” has a new book that asks exactly that. In The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late, he challenges the belief tha ...  Show more

Shell Game: The Future Isn't Real

Evan pushes the experiment one step further, sending his AI voice agent to talk to his closest friends and family — his buddies, his daughters, his dad. With their alternately joyful, skeptical, and painful reactions to meeting an AI version of him, he tries to come to terms with ...  Show more

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The Vision Pro is Apple's new $3,500 virtual reality headset. Since its debut in February, users have found new ways to use this latest iteration of a decades-old technology: scrolling TikTok at work, driving Tesla's Cybertruck, recording their kid's birth. But can VR truly integ ...  Show more

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Lots of sensational headlines this week on the risks to stocks with technology names being labeled the 'Big Tech Hype'.


So should investors be worried or are the tech stocks just trading at a fair valuation?


Join us for an episode that promises not only to ...

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Which tech is overhyped, underhyped and just right?
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Within the climate tech world, technology hype is all over the map. In this episode, Lara Pierpoint, director of climate at Actuate, and Stephen Lacey, host of The Carbon Copy and executive producer of Catalyst, join Shayle for a game of “buy sell hold.” They take bets on which t ...  Show more