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- Win11 Adoption Slows, Waymo Safer Than Human Drivers, Tesla FSD Woes
Top Story:
- Windows 11 adoption rate slows despite Win 10 EOL in Oct 2025
- Waymo released a peer reviewed study proving their cars are safer than human drivers
- Chinese made XPeng outperformed Tesla in Full Self Driving mode comparison
23 min - Fla. Social Media Ban Unconstitutional, Pirating TV, USB-C Not The Same, Starlink Getting Faster?
News and Updates:
- Fed judge says Fla. Law banning teens on social media is probably unconstitutional
- People pirating Streaming TV, especially for sports
- Microsoft says not all USB-C ports are the same and wants the industry to change
- Starlink wants to reduce the latency to under 20 milliseconds and increase bandwidth to 1Tbps
22 min - Claude Blackmails Developers, Google Fighting To Retain Seach Dominance, Chicago Paper’s Fake Reading List, AI Darth Vader Voice Over, Duolingo CEO Flip-Flop
Top Story:
- Anthropic’s LLM Claude resorts to blackmail so as not to be replaced
- Google rolling out “AI Mode” for search to rival other LLMs
- Chicago Sun-Times used AI to create Top 15 Summer Books, 10 were fake
- Union sues video game that used AI to create Darth Vader’s voice instead of actor
- Duolingo’s CEO said the company would be “AI First”
- Duolingo’s CEO back tracks and says AI not replacing humans
23 min - Netflix YouTube And AI Ads, TikTok Freebies Causing Malware, Texas Social Media Laws And Age Verification, Baby Saved By DNA Gene-Editing
News and Updates:
- Netflix and YouTube will use AI Gen ads for cheaper plans
- TikTok videos to get free software result in malware
- Texas bans social media for those under 18
- Texas creates age-verification laws despite privacy concerns
- Baby gets lifesaving Personalized Gene-Editing cure
23 min - Students Humanizing Papers Using AI, Professor Uses AI Students Not Happy, Will Society Adapt to GenAI Fast Enough
Top Story:
- Students are using AI to make sure their papers do not read like AI generated
- Professor uses ChatGPT to create Content, some of the students call it hypocritical
- A deep dive into the rapid pace the generative AI is evolving, and we are not ready
22 min - Changes To Apple’s App Store, Get A Bite Of Apple’s $95M Settlement, Robotaxis More Popular Than Human Ubers, Autonomous Trucks In Texas, HBO Rebranded Again, Sesame Street ‘s New Home
News and Updates:
- Apple makes changes to the way they collect in App Store
- Apple is settling a $95M Siri Class Action, how to get $100
- Uber says Robotaxis are busier than almost all the human driven ride shares
- Autonomous trucks are driving across Texas
- Warner Bros can’t stop rebranding HBO
- Sesame Street will now be on Netflix as well as PBS
23 min - AI Credit Cards, AI Hallucinations Getting Worse, Zuckerberg Thinks AI Will be Your Friends, AI Research Violates Ethics Standards
Top Story:
- Visa trying to the AI shopping experience credit card
- AI continues to grow, but hallucinations are getting worse
- Zuckerberg thinks most of your friends will be AI chat bots
- Researchers violated ethical standards while investigating AI usage online
23 min - DoJ Wants To Break Up Google, $20K EV Truck, Tesla Sales Drop, Changes To Windows 11, Netflix To Use AI As Recommendation Tool
News and Updates:
- The Dept. of Justice wants to force Google to sell Chrome and Double Click
- Slate is making a No Frills $20K EV truck
- Tesla falls from first to eight in new EV sales in Australia
- Changes coming to Win 11 Start Menu and new features
- Netflix is using AI as a search/recommendation tool
22 min - Being Polite To AI Cost $$$, ChatGPT Annoying?, AI Gains Outweigh Cost, Teens Investing with ChatGPT Help, Copilot Has Flatlined
Top Story:
- Users are saying please and thank you to ChatGPT and running up the electric bill
- ChatGPT trying to be less of a “suck up”
- Report says AI gains outweigh cost, including emissions from power plants
- Teens are using ChatGPT for investment advice
- Microsoft users are not using Copilot compared to other LLM’s
22 min - Tech Job Confusion And Obsolescence, Anti-Piracy Ad Stole, Google Blurring Nudity, Zuckerberg Says Social Media Changed
News and Updates:
- Tech job descriptions are becoming more confusing
- Because of the rate of advancement, tech jobs become obsolete quickly
- The “You Wouldn’t Steal a car” ad pirated a lot in the ad
- Google Messages is blurring nudity in communications
- Mark Zuckerberg told the FTC that social media has changed
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We started Tech Gumbo in Nov 2014 as a conversational show of news, information & updates about the past, present & future of all things technology in a topical, interesting and digestible…
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