Tech-focused business publication The Information drummed up plenty of excitement around a major guest gracing the first episode of its new YouTube show (which has the eyebrow-raising name TITV.)
During today's kickoff installment, the show locked down none other than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who sat down with The Information founder and journalist Jessica Lessin for a live interview.
But it didn't take long for the Amazon-sponsored chat to grind to a halt. The tech mogul and Lessin's audio were painfully absent from the stream on YouTube; their mouths were moving, so they could clearly hear each other, but the audience heard nothing but silence.
Soon, host Akash Pasricha was forced to intervene.
"Folks, I'm really sorry to jump in here," he said, sounding frustrated. "I think we don't have sound from our interview with Mark Zuckerberg and Jessica Lessin."
"I don't think we'll be able to figure it out in just a minute," Pasricha said. "We're gonna call the show there just for today," he added, apologizing for blowing off Hinge Health CEO Daniel Perez and their upcoming conversation.
The unfortunate incident is a timely reminder that even in the age of powerful AI agents, quantum computers, and genetic hacking, simple technological challenges like delivering a talking heads-style interview on a live stream can still force powerful institutions to their knees.
(If this embedded version doesn't snap to the right timestamp, just scrub forward to around the 39:40 mark for a quick taste of the silent film era.
Zuckerberg has been on a media blitz lately, promoting Meta's powerful data centers to power its generative AI efforts.
"We’re calling the first one Prometheus and it’s coming online in ‘26," he wrote in a post on Threads Monday morning.
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