How thin can you make a book-foldable smartphone? Oppo has the answer. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan revealed Americans primarily watch YouTube on TV screens vs mobile screens. Are Jeep infotainment systems filled with persistent ads? And is the next big thing on Netflix, podcasts?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Are generative AI tools detrimental to our ability to think critically? The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit is being held in Paris this week. Do we need to pay attention? Did Super Bowl LIX highlight a tipping point for cryptocurrencies and sports betting? And Google Calendar is paring back its default notable dates in events. Does anyone use that feature?

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We discussed our cable management habits. The UK’s government has reportedly ordered Apple to create a backdoor encrypted user data in iCloud data. Google updates Gemini’s AI response in its Super Bowl ad. And it’s Friday. We test our panel with another round of quiz questions centered on the topic of distillation.

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

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Could the threat posed by Ransomware be diminishing? A new cyber security report holds some tantalizing data. Why is Microsoft Teams getting Facebook-like functionality? Bloomberg’s sources suggest that Amazon’s belt tightening will raise fears of “lean years ahead” And Stanford and the University of Washington AI researchers trained an AI “reasoning” model for under $50.

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The Video Game History Foundation has made its archive available for early access, free of charge. Google updates its AI principles removing references to weapons and surveillance. Sonos is planning to launch a streaming TV device later this year in the $200-$400 price range.

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

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A new app from the Icon Factory called Tapestry pulls together feeds from Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, YouTube, and more into one timeline. Fox Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch told analysts the company will finally get into the mainstream paid streaming subscription game this year. Adobe is adding a new Contract Intelligence feature to its Acrobat “AI Assistant” to scan contracts and flag important details.

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

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OpenAI announced Deep Research, an agentic ChatGPT tool, that lets users ask the chatbot to perform “multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks”. AI companies like Anthropic would like job applicants NOT to use AI on their submission. Fitness+ adds hours of Kendrick Lamar themed workouts to celebrate Super Bowl LIX. And where are all the new GPUs that Nvidia launched?

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LinkedIn’s efforts to bring more video creators on board seems to be paying off. Why is Nintendo going after a Costa Rican grocery store owner? Plus OpenAI launched o3-mini, a new AI reasoning model designed to be both powerful and more affordable. And it's Friday and time for another end of week Fun Time Quiz. Can you figure out the answer before everyone else?

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Microsoft integrates OpenAI’s o1 model into Copilot and gives Copilot users free access to it. PLus Microsoft is making a NPC optimized version of DeepSeek’s R1 model to run locally on Copilot+PC machines. Google is launching “Ask for me,” a new Search Lab experiment that uses AI to call businesses for local service pricing and availability. And Facebook realizes it is no longer relevant to younger audiences.

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OpenAI tells the Financial Times that it found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used OpenAI’s proprietary models to train its system. An anti-AI scrapping activist creates a tarpit to trap AI crawlers in an endless maze of links to nowhere. Plus Xbox’s Phil Spencer made an interesting comment about hard exclusives on the platform. And how do teens really feel about the tech industry and the dangers of the AI industry?

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

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