Meta and Microsoft — as well as other tech titans — have been reporting quarterly earnings, and investors are looking at AI spending with a more skeptical eye. Plus, more than 1,000 workers at top AI labs signed an open letter this week calling on the government to "deliberately set the pace" of this fast-moving technology, and NBCUniversal makes a deal with YouTube to add all of Peacock's content to its premium streaming service.Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to discuss these stories on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”YOUTUBE EMBED HEREEverything we talked about“Meta and Microsoft report ballooning AI expenses” from Axios“Why Moonshot's Kimi K3 Matters Beyond China” from Bloomberg“OpenAI, Anthropic ask U.S. government to consider slowing down AI” from The Washington Post“The Hugging Face break-in explained” from TechCrunch“NBCUniversal and YouTube ink deal to embed Peacock in the video platform for premium subscribers” from CNBC
Meta and Microsoft report different AI earnings
Plus, AI workers urge the U.S. government to create guardrails for the technology, and Peacock and YouTube announce a streaming partnership. Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”
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Meta and Microsoft report earnings amid investor skepticism of AI capex ROI. CTO budgets tighten as market ROI expectations sharpen; simultaneously, 1,000+ researchers petition government for regulatory pace, intensifying governance concerns around infrastructure spending.
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