Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2021-02 to 2026-05.
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Large companies often produce marketing claims about tech products that are exaggerated or incorrect due to a lack of technical knowledge among their marketing teams.
“This is also I have also heard from many different people that work in the industry that work on the products themselves. I've heard from them about being very frustrated with the technical marketing teams and how they've taken certain claims and exaggerated them.”
Linus Tech Tips · Sep 2025 · 22 episodes · 13.5M views on this topicLuke believes that for Intel's customers who have no choice but to use Intel, releasing newer albeit less competitive processors is a benefit.
“for intel's customers who are intel's customers whether they like it or not because intel has stock and amd doesn't for intel's customers there is a huge benefit to releasing these products now all of a sudden they can get closer to what they could have gotten with amd”
Linus Tech Tips · Apr 2021 · 22 episodes · 13.5M views on this topicGovernment officials like Brendan Carr interfering with private company operations based on political preferences for DEI policies constitutes inappropriate and corrupt behavior.
“It drives me bananas that we've decided the government can interfere with private companies in this way. We should make them compete.”
The Verge · Dec 2025 · 4 episodes · 571K views on this topicExclusivity agreements for sports broadcasting are negative for consumers.
“I hate exclusivity on like a platform that you might not give a damn about paying for to watch sports.”
WVFRM Podcast · Oct 2025 · 2 episodes · 519K views on this topicThe decision for OpenAI to declare a 'code red' and pivot focus exclusively to ChatGPT is a sign of internal chaos rather than a strategic solution.
“You don't get to be less chaotic by sending out memos, declaring a code red. That That's not how that works. That's more chaos.”
The Verge · Dec 2025 · 4 episodes · 117K views on this topicAI-powered buy buttons in chatbots could become a viable and successful monetization strategy.
“If they can figure out how to take money out of that transaction, they're going to make a lot of money. This is going to be hugely complicated for retailers, for anyone who sells anything. Maybe huge mess, but like if if I'm an AI company, this is the cleanest, simplest way to make money.”
The Verge · Jan 2026 · 2 episodes · 52K views on this topicHe argues that Google's distribution network poses a significant competitive threat to OpenAI's consumer-focused business.
“If Gemini 3 fully replaces Chat GPT or is as good, that is really scary because when everyone already goes to google.com and can move right over to Gemini from a consumer standpoint and that is OpenAI's entire business like I mean majority that's a problem.”
Alex Kantrowitz · Nov 2025 · 2 episodes · 27K views on this topicThe shift of businesses to closed-source models to protect against AI security risks is a questionable or unjustified decision.
“they say open source security has always relied on people to fix and find any problems, but now AI attackers are flaunting that transparency. So they're going close source. I don't know honestly if this is a good idea.”
This Week in Tech · Apr 2026 · 3 episodes · 24K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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