This Week in Tech (Audio)

TikTok Montana ban, Instagram's Twitter clone, Tears of the Kingdom, and more. Everything we know about Instagram's Twitter clone, due this summer. How Apple's headset could be a $3,000 flop—and a success. Pixel Fold. TikTok Users Sue Montana, Calling State Ban Unconstitutional. Dear Section 230 Critics: When Senators Hawley And Cruz Are Your Biggest Allies, It's Time To Rethink. Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies in just three days. Supreme Court sides against Andy Warhol Foundation in copyright infringement case. Supreme Court Leaves 230 Alone For Now, But Justice Thomas Gives A Pretty Good Explanation For Why It Exists In The First Place. Google reaches $39.9 million privacy settlement with Washington state. The government can't seize your data — but it can buy it. Apple created its new voice feature for—and with—people with ALS. CNET staff are unionizing, citing editorial independence and use of AI tools. AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit. Have we oversold the potential of AI? Bard vs ChatGPT. OpenAI chief concerned about AI being used to compromise elections. NASA picks Blue Origin to make a second human-crewed lunar lander. D&D streaming TV channel on the way, will include cartoons, actual play. Cord-Cutting Q1 2023: Pay-TV Ops Lose 2.3M Subs, Worst Quarter to Date. The triumph—yes, triumph—of BlackBerry. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Cathy Gellis, Harry McCracken, and Amanda Silberling Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: grammarly.com/GO noom.com/twit mintmobile.com/twit

AI ethics, Google IO, Absci, Replika, AM radio in cars, Spotify rejects AI songs The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb. Google IO saw the introduction of many of the company's AI efforts. A Charge of Bots — The Tech World As We Know It Is About To Be Rewritten. BS Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber. ChatGPT Plugins And Web Browsing Beta Rollout For Plus Users. What about "The Singularity"? Google is changing up Search. What does that mean for news publishers? What is the best-case scenario of where AI is headed in 5-10 years? Absci: Biologics Drug Discovery. Why Linda Yaccarino was picked as Twitter CEO by Elon Musk. Review: 'The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom' is video game bliss. An influencer's AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute. Replika: The AI companion who cares. Has Meta given up on the Metaverse? Checking in on some of the latest shows on Apple+ and HBO. End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars. Groundbreaking Pilot of New Friendly™ Mosquitoes Demonstrates 96% Suppression of Dengue-spreading Aedes aegypti in Urban Communities in Brazil. Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Amy Webb and Phil Libin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: hellofresh.com/twit16 and use code twit16 expressvpn.com/twit Miro.com/podcast

AI chatbots, Writer's Guild strike, Pluto ad-supported TV AI is already writing books, websites, and online recipes. AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms. Google Adding AI Chatbot, More Video to Stay On Top of Search. Amnesty International criticized for using AI-generated images. I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family. Larry Magid: Voice cloning makes virtual kidnapping more convincing. DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs. Samsung Bans ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Other Generative AI Use by Staff After Leak. Writers Guild On Strike Against Hollywood Studios As Contract Talks With Fail. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says writers' strike will be ended by 'love for the business and the love for working.' Pluto co-founder is building an ad-supported TV. Judge Dismisses F.T.C. Lawsuit Against Kochava, a Location Data Broker. Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in. Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy. The Morning After: Google officially reveals its first foldable phone: The Pixel Fold. 'The Godfather of AI' Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead. Tim Cook Just Was Asked About AI. His 3-Word Response Was the Best I've Heard Yet. Inside Amazon's canceled plan to make Halo a fitness success. Solidigm Synergy 2.0 SSD Software with benchmarks. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Allyn Malventano, and Janko Roettgers Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: athleticgreens.com/twit ziprecruiter.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit

Bluesky, the end of Twitter, Flipper Zero, Supreme Court and AI Bluesky buzz: Why the social media platform is being called the next Twitter. Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk shouldn't have bought Twitter after all. More on moderation and security challenges of social media. What would Alex do if we were to start from scratch with social media? Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media. Alex talks about the WiFi Pineapple. Flipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks. Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks. There Is No A.I. OpenAI: ChatGPT back in Italy after meeting watchdog demands. Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but... AI For Everyone Course. US Supreme Court rejects computer scientist's lawsuit over AI-generated inventions. U.S. Supreme Court to decide if public officials can block critics on social media. Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk. The web's most important decision. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Alex Stamos, Jeff Jarvis, and Brianna Wu Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT noom.com/twit lookout.com

Musk risk intensifies, UK emergency alert, Google AI panic, Parrots on Zoom Elon Musk Figured Out the Media's Biggest Weakness. In 24 Hours, Elon Musk Reignited His Reputation for Risk. Twitter Blue nets 28 signups so far since legacy checkmark purge. There Is No A.I. How My AI Image Won a Major Photography Competition. Emergency alert test fails to sound on some phones. School Chromebooks are creating huge amounts of e-waste. Can Parrots Talk Over Video Chat? Experiment Shows How They Adapt and Connect. Here's How You Can Get In On Facebook's $725 Million Class Action Settlement. Chip designer Arm makes its own advanced prototype semiconductor. Tesla wins lawsuit over Autopilot Model S crash. Google CEO Sundar Pichai's 2022 Compensation Valued at $226 Million. Google's AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain. Alphabet's Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI. Google's rush to win in AI led to ethical lapses, employees say. YouTube TV is testing significant picture quality improvements. Netflix's DVD Business: Redbox Owner Interested in Buying Division. Imgur will ban explicit images on its platform this month. When Apple Comes Calling, 'It's the Kiss of Death' Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Nate Lanxon, Mike Elgan, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: wwt.com/twit grammarly.com/twit mintmobile.com/twit noom.com/twit

Substack Notes, AI guardrails, WWDC, Meta morale, HBO Max, X Corp Substack unveils the product that got it banned from Twitter. Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn't Realize He's Just Become The Nazi Bar. Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT. European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force. China Mandates Security Reviews for AI Services Like ChatGPT. AI is already taking video game illustrators' jobs in China. Twitter Isn't a Company Anymore. Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI. Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC. The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market. Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta. Montana Lawmakers Approve Statewide Ban on TikTok. Why progressive lawmakers are fighting against a TikTok ban. Google confirms pricing plans for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. HBO Max to Be Renamed 'Max' With Addition of Discovery+ Content, Launch Date, and Pricing Revealed. The End of Computer Magazines in America. Host: Jason Howell Guests: Jason Hiner, Dan Patterson, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/twit meraki.cisco.com/twit decisions.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit

Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite Biden eyes AI dangers, says tech companies must ensure products are safe. A viral image of the Pope in a white coat was faked with AI. Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data. What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news. Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT. Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral. At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free. What did Twitter's 'open source' algorithm actually reveal? Not a lot. Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis'. Dogecoin jumps more than 30% after Musk changes Twitter logo to an image of Shiba inu. New Analysis Shows News Industry Reaps Considerable Economic Benefit from Facebook. Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'. Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive. Google to cut some of its perks to cut costs amid AI race. Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts. Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures. E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out. Super Mario Bros. movie has the largest domestic opening of the year ($146M), the global debut is huge too ($377.5M). Sony is reportedly working on a remote play-only handheld, the Q Lite. Host: Devindra Hardawar Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Anthony Ha, and Doc Rock Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: meraki.cisco.com/twit ZipRecruiter.com/Twit Miro.com/podcast

Apple Pay Later, Twitter Alternative, April Fool's Best of April Fool's Pranks GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess 3 things everyone's getting wrong about AI Apple announces WWDC 2023 for June 5-9 At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles Apple Releases iOS 16.4 With New Emoji, Safari Web Push Notifications, Beta Changes, Voice Isolation for Calls and More Apple Pay Later is finally launching E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else T2 - Twitter Alternative Host: Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Christina Warren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: lookout.com expressvpn.com/twit

Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won't sell Red Team Blues The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and their impact on humanity How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security A TikTok ban would upend Hollywood Introducing Acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles - The New York Times Part of Twitter Source Code Leaked The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions Man Loses Maine Vanity Plates Describing His Love For Bean Mush A 90-Year-Old Tortoise Named Mr. Pickles Is a New Dad of Three Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Cory Doctorow, Rene Ritchie, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT kolide.com/twit noom.com/twit shopify.com/twit

GPT-4, TikTok's looming fate, Internet Archive vs Libraries, Olympic Esports OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model. Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive. Here's how to participate in Monday's oral arguments. TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers. The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance's Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists. Why are the Olympic Esports Series games so strange? We asked the IOC. Meta's place in the social media landscape. The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse. The Over-Financialization Of Tech And The SVB Backlash. Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff. Dark Web 'BreachForums' Operator Charged With Computer Crime. FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages. Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update. GM wants to bring ChatGPT-like assistant to drivers. Google is working on AI for ultrasound diagnosis and cancer therapy. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Steven Levy Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: eightsleep.com/twit mintmobile.com/twit Miro.com/podcast kolide.com/twit