Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
Big Technology Podcast
09/12/25
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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Apple's impressive new iPhone Pro models 2) Who is the iPhone Air for? 3) Has the phone reached its ultimate form factor 4) Is generative AI threatening to upend the smartphone market 5) Meta's new smartglasses are coming 6) Nepal's Gen Z overthrows the government and picks a new leader on Discord 7) OpenAI growth stats after GPT-5 launch 8) Oracle and OpenAI's new $300 billion deal 9) Flirting with ChatGPT 10) The AI companionship use case is real 11) Does San Francisco have 996 work culture?
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