caroline: let's go to vc tech.u see this rushed for ai, you say how driverless cars is the hottest investment in the last four months, is ai a good investment? >> i think it has been a good seen a lot ofave startups in that space. on the smart speaker side we have not really seen anyone. .ery few startups we have not really seen anything going after that. i'm a skeptic on the home smart speaker area we do not have an ecosystem growing up after them. them,tential investor in what is the retention? what is the engagement with those? i have had one for six months. it is collecting dust. i'm a little bit of a skeptic because of that. --hink the pure interface your voice interface is a little simplistic. what can it actually do? that is the reason why they have been adding a screen now. if you have a screen and the speaker, it is just an ipad to does not move. i don't really understand it. i believe it is a complement to other things as an interface, but the simple voice interface device in the home -- caroline: he go t

tech savvy and well-connected players in the game. he has built a reputation as a sharp silicon valley investor, got in early on facebook, netflix, and tesla. and has built an admirable vc'sunt for billions sitting courtside at every game. our cory johnson caught up with the superstar and asked if the tech aspect of silicon valley had an effect on him choosing to play for the warriors. take a listen. >> people always ask me how important silicon valley was in my decision to come to the bay. i would say it had a big influence, but the team was right on the cusp of some success that i don't think anyone else could see. i guess having that tech vision, and like i said before, seeing what lies ahead and trying to read five years down the road kind of came into part as well. knowing the team was right there and i could be that key figure. when you go into a press conference after your signing and say the goal is to win championships, that is kind of a clichÉ thing to say, but for me, i always try to be honest. sometimes, i am too honest. that was a key factor, knowing that we had opportunities to compete for championships. and we have been to the finals three years in a row. w

now, stories of sexual harassment within the tech industry continue to come out. vcms and tech startups have been rocked by numerous sexual misconduct allegations, resulting in several resignations from tech investors, with the latest one coming just this week. as the industry moves to grapple with harassment -- as the industry's moved to grapple with harassment danes momentum, questions -- gains momentum, questions remain. joining me, joe nocera, who wrote about his column -- about this in his column today. still with me, guest host martin mignot. it's pervasive and ingrained is what you wrote in your story, and the tide is now turning as men start to lose their jobs. but just how pervasive was it, is it, and why is it -- the tide now turning? joe: it is so pervasive. there are studies out there that show that 60% of the women who were polled said that they had had to deal with some form of fact -- sexual harassment. i would say that's pretty darn pervasive. it's really gone on for years, because the power imbalance between a venture capitalist who has money and a f

the investors banking on britain to keep its title and bragging rights of europe's leading tech hub. why vc'sre pumping billions into london's technology sector despite brexit. and, a cofounders resignation and the downward spiral. the chinese tycoon's plea for more time to repay debt and his focus on electric cars. first to our lead. a major reshuffling going on at microsoft. the tech giant confirmed it is cutting thousands of jobs. the number of jobs to be cut range anywhere from 3000-5000, and most of those jobs in sales and outside the u.s. that is out of the company's over 121,000 person workforce. the move is part of the company's reorganization to better focus on selling cloud software. a spokesperson told us "like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. this can result in increased investment in some places and from time to time redeployment in others." joining us now to discuss is cory johnson in san francisco. in london, frederick who i'm pleased to say is staying with me the entire hour. cory, bring us up to speed. there is a focus going on in terms of the cloud

vc world. it could have major implications for the tech industry at large so far the vision fund itself has employedillion in two start-ups but a bunch of softbank investments from one web to nvidia, they're expected to be offered to the vision fund according to people close to the matter. and there are reports just in the last few weeks connecting softbank to some of the buzziest names uber, slack, just to name a few. clearly masa is a busy man he's rubbing shoulders with the white house. here's a list of who's invested in the vision fund, the saudis, qualcomm, apple among others he says he'd like to be remembered as the crazy guy that bet on the future, and so far he has shown that he's willing to bet big, and bet often >> what's the distinction between what goes inside the vision fund, and what goes technically inside softbank proper, if you will? >> so the number of investments that we had up on the wall, he has this plan to invest $100 billion within five years. >> right >> and he has sort of set up these guidelines, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning so they're supposed to be