The Snap CEO talks about the challenges facing the company’s AI chatbot, how augmented reality glasses could change how we compute the real world and why a TikTok ban would “help” Snap.
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Jan 22
Elon’s “Nudify” Mess: How X Supercharged Deepfakes
On Christmas Eve, Elon Musk’s X rolled out an in-app tool that lets users alter other people’s photos and post the results directly in reply. With minimal safeguards, it quickly became a pipeline for sexualized, non-consensual deepfakes, including imagery involving minors, delive ... Show More
53m 36s
May 2023
Supreme Court Saves Social Media, Montana Bans TikTok, and Sam Altman Wants AI Regulation
EU regulators say 'game on' for the Microsoft-Activision deal, WeWork's CEO is stepping down, and the latest call for AI regulation is coming from inside the house. Kara and Scott discuss the weak plan to ban TikTok in Montana. And Elon Musk continues to Elon Musk, saying he’s wi ... Show More
1h 5m
Apr 2023
What’s the future of retail shopping? Snap bets on virtual try-on tech.
Snapchat made its name with silly augmented-reality filters, or lenses, as it calls them. In recent years, it’s expanded into shopping, enabling users to try on clothing, jewelry and makeup in the app. The company, now called Snap, has started selling this technology to other bus ... Show More
15m 1s
Jun 2020
Facebook changes its speech policy, Amazon moves into driverless cars, and a Friend of Pivot on how suspension of visas will affect Silicon Valley
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook announcing it would change its policies around hate speech on the platform after mounting pressures from Civil Rights organizations and company ad boycotts. They also discuss Amazon buying Zoox, an autonomous ride-hailing company to start compet ... Show More
1h 4m
Mar 2020
Facebook vs Snapchat - Marchés boursiers en chute libre | 5
Nous sommes en avril 2017 et Mark Zuckerberg lance un nouveau défi à Snapchat. En rendant ses filtres visage source libre, le géant technologique est en concurrence directe avec la fonctionnalité la plus populaire de Snapchat. Mais le fondateur, Evan Spiegel, a d’autres raisons d ... Show More
23m 43s
Jun 2023
Tesla’s Rising Value, Meta’s AI, and Twitter’s Ad Problem
Kara and Scott are live at Cannes! They discuss Tesla’s market value going up a quarter of a trillion dollars, and Meta letting advertisers know how it’s competing in the AI space. Plus, Twitter’s Head of Ad Sales attended Cannes to assure brands their ads wouldn’t appear near al ... Show More
50m 23s
May 2020
Facebook's oversight board is the "League of Nations", Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's master class on leadership, and a prediction about Uber's numbers
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's new oversight board and whether it will be effective in controlling content on the platform. They discuss layoffs at Airbnb and Uber, as well as Uber's investment in the scooter company, Lime. We take a moment of "Comic Relief" with writer and ... Show More
48m 41s
Oct 2021
Why Is TikTok So Damn Addicting? We Asked an Expert
We've all been there: you open up TikTok for a quick fix, and suddenly, three hours have gone by. During the pandemic, we let ourselves spend even more time in the TikTok rabbit hole as a means to escape into a world of silly dances, controversial recipes, and general distraction ... Show More
47m 44s