The Tech Jawn: Black Tech Enthusiasts Covering The Week's Tech News And How Tech Affects Black Culture

Deepfakes of prominent deceased figures from history, like Martin Luther King Jr., are so problematic on Sora 2 that OpenAI changed its policies to allow the families and estates of deceased people to opt out of having their likenesses used on its platform.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

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20% of high schoolers say they have either had a romantic relationship with AI or know of someone who has. In our increasingly online-connected world, young people are finding it easier to create friendships with bots than they do with people.

In this episode, we also discuss Sora's nearly record-breaking week on the App Store, YouTube welcoming back previously banned creators, NYC suing social media companies for addicting children, and ICE tracking apps being removed from the app stores.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:

Sora's first week was nearly as big as ChatGPT — Read More

YouTube opens the door for banned users — Read More

20% of high schoolers have relations with AI —  Read More

Apple and Google remove ICE trackers from their app stores — Read More

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Sora 2, the new AI video generation tool / social media platform, has shot to the top of the charts on the App Store, despite the app being invitation-only. Realistic 10-second videos are dominating social media, but is it too soon to say that Sora will eventually rival TikTok?

We also discuss the content of Africa launching the Continental Internet Exchange, a project to establish a continent-wide network infrastructure designed to increase internet speed, reduce costs, and strengthen data sovereignty across Africa.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:

The good, bad, and ugly of Sora 2 — Read More

The continent of Africa is building its own internet — Read More

Corporate Catfish is being turned into a documentary —  Read More

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Content Creators and consumers are telling AI companies that they don't want AI-generated Influencers and Podcasts, but these companies keep on keeping on. We'll give you one guess as to why.

We also discuss the sitting president telling private sector companies to fire employees he doesn't like, U.S. TikTok kind of feeling like it's state-run, and EA possibly becoming the largest leveraged buyout ever.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:

Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs head — Read More

AI influencer creators lean into backlash — Read More

AI Podcasting startup has no plans to quit — Read More

An executive order clears the way for TikTok U.S. — Read More

EA poised to become the largest leveraged buyout — Read More

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YouTube recently released a bunch of new features for creators. Filmmaker, Author, and Livestreamer Angela Hollowell drops by to tell us all about them.

We also discuss Meta's new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, why you may want to buy a case for your new iPhone 17, and what was announced at the Make It With Notion conference.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Guest Host: Angela Hollowell

Links:

Meta's Ray-Ban Display may be the best smart glasses available — Read More

New YouTube features for creators — Read More

The iPhone 17 Pro scratching problem — Read More

What was announced at the Make It With Notion conference — Read More

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It looks like the White House administration has finally worked out a deal where TikTok parent company ByteDance will sell its U.S. assets to a U.S.-based company. The concept for the deal is in place and will be finalized this Friday. Something tells us there is fine print that will need to be looked at if and when the deal goes through.

We also discuss all the new Apple hotness announced last week as well as the new Apple OSes that came out this week, and, the Black owned social media network is in the news because a European social media startup looks like it copied and pasted Spill's entire design. They even named the new network SPIL*.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:

Everything App announced last week — Read More

New Apple OSes — Read More

A concept of a TikTok deal — Read More

The Spill App's design was apparently stolen — Read More

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In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss Google not being required to sell Chrome or Android as a penance for its anti-trust behavior and what this decision could mean for Apple and other companies that charge Google to make Google Search the default.

We also cover continued facial recognition misidentifications, Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, the Rabbit R1's new operating system, and more.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:

A Judge says Google doesn't have to sell Chrome or Android — Read More

Faulty Facial Recognition Strikes Again — Read More

Anthropic Settles Training Data Copyright Case for $1.5 Billion — Read More

The Rabbit R1 Gets A New OS — Read More

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Due to popular demand and at the behest of the multitudes we’re coming to a podcast app near you with weekly episodes of the Tech Jawn. 

We also dig into the recent Black Creator TikTok strike, how black culture is driving the platform right now, and the bigger problem of representation without compensation.

To further illustrate our episode 0 conversation about bias in AI, we discuss why Facebook had to apologize and take down its entire topic recommendation system after tagging videos of black men in confrontations with white police officers with “keep seeing videos about Primates.”

And lastly, we ask the question “Can you buy a dumb TV anymore?”

We’ve got all this and so much more in episode 1 of The Tech Jawn.

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Is Apple Intelligence so far behind in the AI game that Apple may have to partner with Google to have Gemini power the next version of Siri, or is the iPhone maker looking for something to perhaps replace the billions in revenue it makes by setting Google as its default search engine?

Maybe both things are true...

We also discuss the TikTok ban getting another extension, Bluesky going dark in Mississippi,

and AI firings, rehirings, and layoffs.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:

Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline — Read More

Bluesky goes dark in Mississippi — Read More

Could Apple power Siri with Google Gemini — Read More

AI Firings, Rehirings, and Layoffs — Read More

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The Trump Whitehouse is taking 15% in kickbacks on the sale of AI chips to China. How is this different than the protection money the mob takes from legitimate businesses?

We discuss this and AOL ending its dial-up service after 34 years, OpenAI releasing GPT-5, Reddit blocking the Wayback Machine, and Google’s vanishing DEI support.

Hosts:

Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewood

Stephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeSteph

Terrance Gaines – @BrothaTech

Links:

AOL to discontinue dial-up service -- Read More

OpenAI Released GPT-5 -- Read More

Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine -- Read More

Google's vanishing DEI support -- Read More

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