FlexiLingo
Software’s Epic Comeback, Meta’s AI Layoffs Blunder, South Korea Stock Market Chaos
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Software is rebounding, is the Saaspocolyse over? 2) Salesforce delivers solid earnings and jumps 22% 3) Why was Dario sitting with Benioff? 4) All software stocks are rising 5) Disruption could still happen, but on a longer timeline 6) Meta's bungled AI layoff strategy 7) How much of AI failures today are cultural? 8) Meta pays billions in landmark addiction settlement 9) South Korean stock market volatility 10) The clash of AI belief and reality --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of cho...
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Software rebounds and puts SAS Pocalypse speculation to rest or does it meta tries to replace humans with AI And it doesn't go so well and is it an AI bubble don't ask the traders in South Korea That's coming up on a big technology podcast Friday edition right after this What can a big technology podcast Friday edition where we break down the news and our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format?
We have a great show for you today We're gonna talk about the state of the SAS Pocalypse now that software companies like Salesforce Adobe and Microsoft seem to have rebounded from their sas-pocalypse lows was this entire thing just an overreaction. We're also going to talk
about a program that Meta tried to put into place to replace its human workers with AI and why it failed and then we're going to take a look at the South Korean stock market and talk a little bit about why the fears of an AI bubble may be justified but it might not be a market-wide bubble it might just play
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