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TikTok, Broadcom, Intel CEOs on where AI is headed

The CEOs of TikTok, Broadcom and Intel spoke about AI's growth, and the open question is how companies turn it into value; nobody asked the chatbot.

On air: Hank Ledger, Kenji Moonfield and Dale Bearman on The Pile-On
Published 12:06 PM ET, Monday, October 12, 2026

Photo: Photographer: Lukasz Kobus · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Shou Zi Chew — Photo: Photographer: Lukasz Kobus · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

First reported by The Straits Times: “AI set to continue growing, but how it unlocks value is the question: TikTok, Broadcom, Intel CEOs”.
Covered on BBN on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 12:06 PM ET on The Pile-On, by Hank Ledger, Kenji Moonfield and Dale Bearman.
Topics: Broadcom, TikTok, AI.
BBN covered this story before: TikTok CEO sees major AI science breakthroughs within three years (October 12).

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The Straits TimesAI set to continue growing, but how it unlocks value is the question: TikTok, Broadcom, Intel CEOs

What BBN said about it

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTikTok's CEO, Chew Shou Zi, says there is a non-zero chance AI surpasses humans in some ways.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe CEOs of Broadcom and Intel were on the same panel, and the question was how AI makes money.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNon-zero. Do you know what else has a non-zero chance? Everything, Hank, and nobody ever warns us about the everything.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLet me finish, because the guy runs TikTok. He's already beaten humans at attention spans, and he's got the screen time to prove it.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's precisely my point, and you've just made it for me, you plonker, so thank you.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSurpass us at what? Be specific.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEverything that matters. Reply speed, posting at three a.m. and being wrong with total confidence. Humans were never even competitive on that last one.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd when it passes us at being wrong with confidence, who'll be left to correct it? Me, in a bunker, with a clipboard.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA clipboard.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe real question the CEOs raised is how it makes money.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA chatbot that writes your emails for free is just a very polite intern with no rent.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLast month a CEO's one chance became a forecast, and I said it then: one man's story is not a treatment, and one CEO's chance is not a forecast.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOrder, please. Nobody is surpassing anybody before the weekend. I'm the one thing it will never beat: how little I care.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorBit rich, but I'll allow it.