Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!
- Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter
- Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
- The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
- Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica
- Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong
- Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI
- Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems
- Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
- Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October
- Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
- Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards
- NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;
- Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
- Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
- Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
- Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match
- Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
- Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot
- The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
- Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
- FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau
Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech
Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!
Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Sponsors:
Popular Podcasts
Hey Jonas!
Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com