# Big Tech knocked it out of the park Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901/big-tech-knocked-it-out-of-the-park Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901/big-tech-knocked-it-out-of-the-park.md Podcast: [Marketplace Morning Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901) Published: 2026-04-30T15:05:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/04/30/big-tech-knocked-it-out-of-the-park Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/morning_report/2026/04/30/mmr_20260430_MMR_Podcast_3_64.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MMR&awEpisodeId=01KQG64MSN5DMXDF24N991P4DK Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-morning-report-479901/episodes/big-tech-knocked-it-out-of-the-park Duration seconds: 489 ## Resource Yesterday, we got quarterly results for some of the biggest companies in the economy, including Google parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta. Investors have been pinning hopes on Big Tech. We'll do the numbers on tech firms' earnings and discuss whether the good times — and big spending on AI — can last. But first, the U.S. economy grew faster in the first three months of this year, and we'll outline challenges awaiting Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-morning-report-479901/episodes/big-tech-knocked-it-out-of-the-park/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901/big-tech-knocked-it-out-of-the-park.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.