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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. Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 21:15 UTC.
    • 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 Cause Chaos
    • Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from
    • June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns
    • The Dire Wolf Isn't Back—But Here's What 'De-Extinction' Tech Can Actually Do
    • Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
    • Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
    • Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
    • Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Ensh*ttification Meet

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Allyn Malventano, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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    • 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 provider
    • Eric Raymond, John Carmack Mourn Death of 'Bufferbloat' Fighter Dave Taut

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Jason Calacanis and Alex Wilhelm

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  • Leaked Signal group chat, xAI xX 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 — just another week at the office
    • 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down
    • Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
    • As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next
    • Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
    • China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?
    • Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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    • 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, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
    • Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company
    • Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink
    • Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
    • Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy
    • Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%
    • Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really
    • Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Harry McCracken, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Patrick Beja

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  • 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-Fi
    • Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games
    • Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie
    • Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090
    • Pokemon Gois getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic
    • Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination
    • TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app
    • F-35 kill switch concerns non-US countries
    • Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
    • Sonos Cancels Its Streaming Video Player - Slashdot
    • Everything You Say To Your Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting On March 28
    • Musk-led cuts drive US consumer protection agency to ask for Amazon trial delay

    Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Amy Webb, Glenn Fleishman, and Mikah Sargent

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