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.

Episodes

August 11, 2025 163 mins
  • 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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  • Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue
  • Why We Don't Talk About Job Destruction
  • Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System
  • Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks
  • The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
  • It's Official: Streaming Is Now the King of TV
  • AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
  • Mastodon updates its terms to p...
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  • Opinionated Design: Early Reactions to Apple's Liquid Glass Design Language
  • Big Tech Is Dealing Flat Design a Death Blow
  • Apple gets over its hang-ups, and the iPad enters a new era
  • Apple Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
  • Apple's de-chatbot-ification of AI is nearly complete
  • Google launches Android 16, rolling out now to Pixel
  • Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff across several businesses...
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  • Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
  • Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
  • OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
  • A ban on state AI laws could smash Big Tech's legal guardrails
  • Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues
  • TikTok dodges U.S. ban — again — as Trump administration pushes deadline back
  • ...
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