This Week in Tech (Audio)

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.

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August 31, 2025 174 mins

Cloudflare's latest moves to police who can access the internet and governments' push for age verification set off alarms for the future of the open web, as panelists debate the hidden costs of centralization and regulation.

  • Microsoft fires four workers for on-site protests over company's ties to Israe
  • Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 water
  • Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of...
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  • You should buy a faster CPU
  • The Trump-Intel deal is official
  • Trump signals fourth delay of TikTok ban
  • Trump to tap Airbnb co-founder as first government design chief
  • Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk's AI simulation of Microsoft
  • Google announces Pixel 10 lineup with heavy AI integration
  • Gemini for Home is Google's biggest smart home play in years
  • Copilot app gets a glowup, new features, for Windows 11
  • Apple explores using Go...
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  • Privacy preserving age verification is bullsh!t
  • The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect
  • Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.
  • AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over
  • Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs
  • More thoughts from Sam ...
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  • GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
  • Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
  • Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
  • Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company
  • Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
  • Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US t...
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  • A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash
  • Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021
  • Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push
  • Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'
  • Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast
  • Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
  • YouTube rolls out age-estimation te...
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  • OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
  • Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
  • UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation
  • Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
  • Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out
  • FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
  • Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims...
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  • Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're already our own surveillance state
  • Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
  • OpenAI LLM's gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition
  • Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
  • The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
  • Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for C...
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  • A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin
  • Australia is quietly rolling out age checks for search engines like Google
  • Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
  • House "crypto week" could change how Americans use, save money
  • Latest stablecoin bill addresses foreign issuers, national security safeguards
  • Grok team apologizes for the chatbot's 'horrific behavior' and blames 'MechaHitler' on a bad update
  • Grok...
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  • SCOTUS Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
  • Adalytics finds 9,000+ pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M+ views from July to May
  • SCOTUS granting cert to Cox v. Sony
  • Bartz v. Anthropic AI copyright case
  • Kadrey v. Meta AI copyright case
  • Microsoft layoffs hit 9,000 employees in new wave of cuts
  • Here are the letters that let Apple and Google ignore the Ti...
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  • The panel discusses the current gaming environment
  • More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad
  • Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court
  • The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions
  • Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright
  • ICE Is Using a New Facial Recogni...
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