Will AI replace apps as the primary interface for technology? Meta’s CTO thinks so. Netflix rolls out dialogue only subtitles. In Australia an AI-generated radio host of a four-hour show went unnoticed for months. And we end the week with another quizzical quiz that we’ll test your knowledge of life after death through technology in big and small screen.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Can training an LLM on your work enable it to reproduce it with the same precision and quality? Would an energy efficiency label sway your decision on which smartphone or tablet you bought? Is 2025 the year when AI becomes a central pillar in which companies organize themselves around? And Uber, Volkswagen team up to launch US robotaxi service with self-driving, electric microbuses.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Roger Chang, Joe.

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OpenAI has expressed interest in buying Chrome if the Department of Justice forces Google to divest it. Nintendo says not everybody who wants a Switch 2 on launch day will not be able to get one. Bethesda officially drops The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered the same day they reveal. Why is everyone going crazy for it? And its YouTube’s 20th birthday. We discuss how a video-sharing platform has become an entertainment giant and an even larger repository of video people don’t watch.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Would you like your artistic legacy to live on in an LLM? With the age of tap to pay phone, how do you let your waiter know you’re ready to pay? A Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to develop a ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool. And Instagram launches a mobile video editor. Does CapCut have competition?

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AGI or artificial general intelligence is the holy grail for AI researchers. But how will we know when we’ve achieved it? Can AR/VR based therapy help people with social anxieties? The FTC has sued Uber, accusing it of misleading customers into signing up for the monthly subscription Uber One. And are you a tech hoarder? We share what we do with our old tech when we upgrade.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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We discuss alternatives to Google’s ubiquitous search tool. Will screenshots be the universal method of capturing digital information for AI digital assistants? Is a trend of using ChatGPT to identify locations from photos another threat to privacy?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Google has been found guilty of breaking the law to establish its dominance in ad tech. What discuss what it means for the company. Community colleges struggle against bots pretending to be students stealing financial aid funds. How has AI impacted irregular digital workers who rely on online work to get by? And Polaroid introduces an updated version of their popular camera taking the best of both the old and the new.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.

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We discuss Ubisoft’s new dev tools to help game-devs incorporate accessibility into their games for the colorblind. How can sound help patients alleviate issues with motion sickness. TikTok is launching “Footnotes,” a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature. And with the success of A Minecraft Movie, we ponder the potential of what other game IP to leverage for cinematic or TV adaptations.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Apple says it has a workaround to training its AI models with data that doesn’t violate its customers’ privacy. The town that used AI to see what everybody wanted. OpenAI is working on a X-like social media platform. Is this what we want? And we share our data security habits when we travel abroad with tech.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Which tech products are affected by tariffs and which have been given exemptions? Justin is here to break it down for us. Should ChatBots be made to be less human-like so people don’t assume its intelligent? Would you feel violated if your ride-hailing service recorded your conversation during ride? And if smartphones are durable to resist breaking if dropped what’s the point of having a phone case?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe

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