This Week in Tech (Audio)

• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
• NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?
• Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 "Recall" feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot+ PCs
• Sam Altman says OpenAI is no longer "compute-constrained" — after Microsoft lost its exclusive cloud provider status
• Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company's Browser Chief Tells Judge
• What Ha...

• Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup
• AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
• OpenAI's secret Yap score
• 4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack
• FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe
• Trump Signal...

• Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
• Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
• Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to 'delete all IP law'
• 5 things to know about Meta's upcoming FTC trial
• Meta's New Tech Wants You Using Phones in Theaters
• Trump Orders Investigation into Former Cybersecurity Chief
• Beyond Showerheads: Trump's Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cau...

• Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
• Trump delays TikTok ban again
• Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
• China is Already Testing AI-Powered Humanoid Robots in Factories - Slashdot
• Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots
• Starliner's flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
• With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military's top launch provi...

Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T

• Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare
• Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style
• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
• Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All
• Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak
• Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
• Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — j...

• Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st
• Apple Can't Beat Spotify
• Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
• Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
• Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April
• Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charg...

The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI, Scopely, Careless People, Gemini Robotics

• An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
• DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags
• Future Today Strategy Group, or FTSG.
• Intel has a new CEO
• Russo Brothers' Busy, Boring Netflix Sci...

• 'Spring forward' no more: Trump and Musk want to end Daylight Saving Time changes. Here's what health experts say
• The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
• Apple Is Delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features
• An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
• Digg is ge...

• Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
• Skype is sh...