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 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. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Sunday.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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  • TWiT 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles - Which Religion Does AI Identify With?

    TWiT 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles - Which Religion Does AI Identify With?
    May 10 2026

    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

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    2 hrs and 11 mins
  • TWiT 1082: Hanging by a Thread - Are We Headed for a Tech Crash or a Golden Age?

    TWiT 1082: Hanging by a Thread - Are We Headed for a Tech Crash or a Golden Age?
    May 4 2026
    Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions into AI, but with rising signs of an industry bubble and some real-world fallout, this week's episode digs into who actually wins, who stands to lose, and whether Apple's patient strategy may outsmart the hype.Big Tech firms beat earnings expectations amid AI spending questionsRIP the $599 Mac Mini, you were too beautiful for this worldMicrosoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price risesMicrosoft speeds up in Big Tech's data center spend-offCrosswording the SituationMeta's historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 millionUtah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checksAustralia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTokMeta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and InstagramMeta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from spaceMusk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI's modelsOpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year oneSam Altman asked GPT-5.5 to plan its own launch party. Its requests were 'beautiful' but 'strange.'Sam Altman says Elon Musk can come to his GPT 5.5 party: 'World needs more love'The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading'We Know You Live Right Here': No Secrets in America's New Surveillance DragnetCalifornia to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic lawsChina Suspends New Autonomous Driving Permits After Baidu OutageChina has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery StoresThe most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footedHackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websitesThe Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a CyberdeckJack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the publicGameStop eyes eBay takeover in audacious $46 billion bet on Ryan Cohen's e-commerce visionAI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for OscarsUkraine says it's training drone pilots in 'Grand Theft Auto V'This free website is like Wikipedia meets the CIALight Phone III Is a Delightfully Minimalist Smartphone AlternativeValve Steam Controller is here, it's a gamepad in search of a consoleBluetooth Connected - The Voices Behind the ConnectionSpirit Airlines shuts down after Trump's war on Iran doubled jet fuel pricesAsk.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butlerPioneering geneticist and decoder of the human genome J. Craig Venter dies at age 79 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Devindra Hardawar, and Mikah Sargent 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:helixsleep.com/twitcanary.tools/twit - use code: TWITMelissa.com/twitexpressvpn.com/twitbox.com/AI
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    3 hrs and 10 mins
  • TWiT 1081: That's Miasma - John Ternus Replacing Tim Cook as Apple CEO

    TWiT 1081: That's Miasma - John Ternus Replacing Tim Cook as Apple CEO
    Apr 27 2026

    Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.

    • Toyota Woven City
    • Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO
    • Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy
    • Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today
    • Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.
      In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
      Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
    • OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
    • China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
      Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
    • Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
    • Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings
    • Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
    • Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
    • What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'
    • Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
    • Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
    • Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
    • Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
    • 'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty
    • Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment
    • The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars
    • 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet
    • To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
    • This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
    • The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline
    • This pasta sauce wants to record your family

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Victoria Song, and Stacey Higginbotham

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    2 hrs and 32 mins
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