Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Software is rebounding, is the Saaspocolyse over? 2) Salesforce delivers solid earnings and jumps 22% 3) Why was Dario sitting with Benioff? 4) All software stocks are rising 5) Disruption could still happen, but on a longer timeline 6) Meta's bungled AI layoff strategy 7) How much of AI failures today are cultural? 8) Meta pays billions in landmark addiction settlement 9) South Korean stock market volatility 10) The clash of AI belief and reality

Chapters

00:00 Introduction: The State of Software and AI Market
01:59 Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff on the SAS Pocalypse
04:11 Meta's AI Workforce Experiment and Its Failures
07:09 Anthropic, Salesforce, and the Future of Enterprise AI
09:55 Market Reactions: The Rise and Fall of AI Stocks
15:03 Long-term Outlook: AI Capabilities and Business Disruption
19:45 Meta's Social Media Strategy and Regulatory Challenges
24:57 The South Korean Stock Market: Volatility and Investor Risks
30:03 Lessons from the AI Bubble and Market Bubbles
34:55 Conclusion: Navigating Uncertainty in AI and Markets


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