Brian Barrett
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I'm Brian Barrett, Executive Editor.
And if you've been listening to the show in recent weeks or reading Wired, you know that we've been covering the unfolding internal crisis at Meta very closely.
This week, we had another scoop.
The controversial system that tracked employees' every keystroke and screen activity has been paused after the company leaked sensitive data from it internally.
We'll get into whether this series of frustrating incidents could actually lead to change within the company.
I think there's some context here too, which is that Amazon has $50 billion invested in open AI, right?
So like in terms of like when they say, you know, the movie will be better served by another studio, I think what they really mean is the studio will be better served by another movie, right?
This is really like- For sure.
Arms length at this.
What really strikes me about it is something that we've known is coming and like has been happening, but the extent to which
the film industry and the tech industry are intertwined right now.
Amazon owns MGM.
Paramount is being acquired by the Ellison family.
Larry Ellison, obviously the founder of Oracle.
So all these sort of tech billionaires are now sort of totally intertwined with the movie industry, which is really going to determine what movies get made and what don't.
And this is like a really glaring example of that.
Anne St.
Maltman was a guest at Jeff Bezos' wedding last year.
Like it's personal, it's financial, it's all of these things.
Right.
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