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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September 28, 2025 185 mins

With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and tasks? Meta launches a new AI short-form video feed. Apple is testing a new internal chatbot called Veritas as part of its efforts to revamp Siri.

  • Nvidia (intends to) invest (up to) $100B in OpenAI (over time).
  • Spending on AI is at epic levels. Will it ev...
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Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

  • Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
  • I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
  • Parents outraged as...
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  • iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple's keynote
  • Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline
  • Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (1)
  • The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
  • What to expect from Meta Connect
  • SpaceX strikes $17B deal to buy EchoStar's spectrum for Starlink's direct-to-phone service
  • Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business
  • Tesla Offers Elon Musk an Unpreceden...
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Google walks away from another monopoly ruling with barely a scratch, while tech giants gather at the White House to praise a president who holds their futures in the balance. Inside, our panel questions whether "playing the game on the field" is killing tech innovation and U.S. privacy for good.

  • Google avoids harshest penalties in landmark search monopoly ruling
  • Google fined $3.5 billion by EU over ad-tech business
  • Prob...
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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 Israel
  • Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 water
  • Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q...
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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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