Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner at SkyBridge Capital, and host of The Rest Is Politics US. Scaramucci joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his brief experience as Trump's communication director, what derailed Elon Musk’s White House stint, the problems with Trump’s 'Big Beautiful Bill,' the state of the trade war, Tim Cook’s tariff troubles, bitcoin, and more. We also cover Long Island culture at the top of the show, if you’re into that. Tune in for a fast paced, fascinating look into the state of the global economy and the tech titans trying to ride it to results.

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Alex Kantrowitz Episodes Around June 4, 2025

Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao

Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?, Is AI The New Social Media?, Zuck’s Revealing Testimony

Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With Dylan Patel

Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious?, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck

Amazon's Head Of Prime on Tariffs, Alexa Plus Rollout, and AI Differentiation — With Jamil Ghani

The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic

Is AI Scaling Dead? — With Gary Marcus

OpenAI’s New Structure, Apple Replacing Google With AI?, Cheating With ChatGPT

AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco

Google DeepMind CTO: Advancing AI Frontier, New Reasoning Methods, Video Generation’s Potential

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: Scaling AI, AGI Timeline, Simulation Theory

OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google Enters 'AI Mode'

She Wants AI To Help You Thrive, Not Just Keep You Company — Y-Lan Boureau

Mass AI-Driven Unemployment, NVIDIA Surges, CEOs' AI Avatars Unleashed

Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem

Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack

WWDC Dispatch: Apple Refines in a Reinvention Era

What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler

Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos

Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition

OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree

Is AI Actually Saving The Stock Market? — With Tom Lee

The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch

Is AI Really Taking Our Jobs? — With Noah Smith

$100 Million AI Engineers, Vending Machine Claude, Legend Of Soham

Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler

Trade War Scorecard: What's Changing, Who's Winning, What's Next — With Ryan Petersen

OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie

Big Technology @ Five Years

Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Tech at Risk Amid University Cuts, China Threat

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