This Week in Tech (Audio)
This Week in Tech is the top-ranked flagship tech podcast from TWiT.tv. Every Sunday, Leo Laporte and a roundtable of insiders explore the week's hottest tech news from AI to robots, and PCs to privacy. When it comes to tech, TWiT is IT. Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
Episodes
Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee
- Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases
- VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web
- Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
- Who's having kids?
- The panel discusses Ticketmaster
- T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge
- Ticketmast...
Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation
- OpenAI didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT, records show
- China's latest answer to OpenAI is 'Chat Xi PT'
- Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
- Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
- Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- Rabbit Holed
- ...
OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign
- GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
- It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
- The panel discusses their experiences with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude
- OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT
- OpenAI Superalignment team is gone
- 2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds
- Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way
- Fr...
- Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season
- Apple Closes in on Deal With OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone
- Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
- Google is getting even worse for independent sites
- Musk Plans More Layoffs as Two Senior Tesla Executives Depart
- At Tesla, a Wild Week That Defined the Company's Future
- TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
- Tele...
In this episode of This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte is joined by Georgia Dow, Shoshana Weissmann, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, tackling a wide range of thought-provoking topics, from the ethical implications of AI in sensitive fields to the challenges of creating and consuming content in an increasingly commercialized digital landscape.
The panel grapples with the potential risks and benefits of AI-powered therapists a...
TikTok Ban, Intel's Struggles, Google's Ensh*ttification
- 'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
- A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.
- The panel taks about AI
- With YouTube Booming, Podcast Creators Get Camera-Ready
- A new California bill would restrict line-skipping service 'Clear' at airports in the name of equity
- The Man Who Killed Google Search
- Goo...
- Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
- TikTok 'ban' passes in the House again
- Senate reauthorizes FISA spy program, but not before its midnight expiration
- Surveillance Law Section 702 Keeps Us Safe
- Netflix (NFLX) earnings Q1 2024
- Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.
- How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
- Amazon Prime Memberships in US Gain 8% to New High ...
- AI Music with Suno and Udio
- Google's DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win
- Vana plans to let users rent out their Reddit data to train AI
- How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105
- AI's Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing
- Why the California Journalism Preservation Act is putting support of the news ecosystem at risk
- Google and the CJPA
- Consumers will fi...
- House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill
- Marissa Mayer's eternal Sunshine
- Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
- Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
- X's 'complimentary' Premium push gives people blue checks they didn't ask for
- President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
- Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News ...
Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor
- 20 years of Gmail
- Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
- An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections
- EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law
- Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week
- Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New Y...
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