The Wall Street Journal’s Tom Dotan joins Ranjan Roy and Alex Kantrowitz for our weekly news recap show. We cover: 1) Salesforce’s recent struggles 2) Salesforce’s ‘monster quarter’ 3) Amazon hitting pause on HQ2 4) State of the market 5) OpenAI’s ChatGPT API 6) OpenAI vs. Microsoft? 7) Tinder robberies.

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Salesforce Tumult, The ChatGPT API, Tinder Robberies

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Alex Kantrowitz Episodes Around March 3, 2023

Crypto After FTX — With Kate Rooney

New Era Of Tech Accountability? + The Impending AI Ethics War

Amazon's Identity Crisis — With Todd Bishop

Google Layoffs, Netflix Shakeup, and Davos Recap

Is ChatGPT A Step Toward Human-Level AI? — With Yann LeCun

BuzzFeed Employs AI, Tesla Stock Goes Wild, Salesforce Is Challenged

What's Next For CNN — With Brian Stelter

Disinflation Begins, Snap's Cultural Roadblocks, Meta's 'Year Of Efficiency'

Was The Creator Economy Way Overblown? — With Kaya Yurieff and Joe Caporoso

Google and Microsoft's Chatbot War, How AI Changes Hollywood, Disney In Crisis

Can Technology Solve Our Climate Crisis — With David Friedberg

Bing Breaks Bad, Metaverse Fades, Tesla's Self-Driving Recall

An AI Chatbot Debate — With Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus

Paying For Social, RIP IPOs & Voice Computing, Four Day Work Weeks

The Social Media Era Of News Is Over — With Ben Smith

Salesforce Tumult, The ChatGPT API, Tinder Robberies

Amazon's Ad Business Soars + AI APIs — With Benedict Evans

Silicon Valley Bank Collapses — With Dan Primack and Ranjan Roy

The Fallout from Silicon Valley Bank's Failure — With Om Malik and Chris Tolles

SVB Reexamined, GPT-4's Potential, TikTok's Potential Ban

Instagram’s Founder On Why All Social Media Looks The Same — With Kevin Systrom

SEC Comes For Coinbase, Hindenberg Comes For Block, Congress Comes For TikTok

Palmer Luckey's Ambitions For The Metaverse And AI Warfare — With Palmer Luckey

RIP Blue Checks, The Open Letter To Stop AI, Startup Funding After SVB

Two VCs On AI’s Possibilities — With Joe Marchese and Michael Mignano

The Internet's Impact On Productivity, Meta's AI Plan, RIP Big Tech Perks

Was The Sharing Economy Way Overblown? — With Emil Michael

The Economy is Fine?, VC Funding Declines, Non-Negotiable Expectations

The Taiwan Semiconductor Dilemma — With Congressman Ro Khanna

State Of The AI Wars, Google's Counterpunch, Elon's 4/20

What Exactly Is The Market Telling Tech To Do? — With Josh Brown

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