Ben Smith is the author of Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. He's also the editor-in-chief of Semafor. He joins Ranjan Roy and Alex Kantrowitz for our weekly news recap show. We cover: 1) New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino 2) Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter 3) End of the streaming wars 4) Trump's CNN Interview 5) Lessons from Ben's book, Traffic 6) Mark Zuckerberg's jiu-jitsu prowess.

You can find Ben's book here.

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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

Bluesky Takes Off, Big Tech Earnings Blowout, Do We Want Human Writers

Is Social Media Doomed To Die? — With Ellis Hamburger

OpenAI's Business Model Problem, Apple's Mixed Reality Vision, Ed Sheeran's Copyright Win — Techmeme Ride Home Crossover

Modern Space Race + State of Elon Musk — With Ashlee Vance

Twitter's New CEO, Streaming Wars Are Over, Traffic's Lessons

He Helped Train ChatGPT. It Was Traumatizing. – With Richard Mathenge

Apple's XR Misadventure, An Emerging AI Bubble, Elon vs. Bezos

Google's Bard Director On His Vision For The Bot — With Jack Krawczyk

NVIDIA Takes Off, Temu + Shein Deep Dive

TikTok's Uncertain Future, Twitter's 2024 Election Play, AI Regulation's Feasibility — With Ryan Mac and Bobby Allyn

Tech Consolidates Stock Market Growth, Lawyer Uses Hallucinating ChatGPT, XR Wars Heat Up

Alphabet X's CEO Has A Vision For AI Moonshots — With Astro Teller

Apple's Future After The Vision Pro — With Mark Gurman

Will AI Save The World + Azure's Origins — With Bob Muglia

Reddit Revolts, Media Armageddon, AI Fakes In Politics — With Sara Fischer

ServiceNow CEO On Entrepreneurship, AI, and Automation — With Bill McDermott

The Media and The Sub, Musk vs. Zuck, A Key TikTok Exec Exits

My Experience On The OceanGate Sub — With David Pogue

Amazon vs. Regulators vs. Walmart

Big Tech's Comeback And The Spillover to VCs and Startups — With Eliot Brown

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