The Tech Jawn

Why does Substack have such a hard time saying no to racism? We also discuss the Trump Administration taking a 10% stake in Intel, Roblox not being safe for kids, social media's new anti-woke agenda, and the TeaOnHer app being just as lax on security as the Tea App. Hosts: Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeStephTerrance...

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....

Nearly 50,000 developers were surveyed, and it turns out that they don't trust Artificial Intelligence nearly as much as they used to. We also discuss AI's power needs causing everyone's light bill to go up, Rivian suing Ohio over its law banning direct-to-consumer auto sales, PayPal's new “Pay With Crypto” features, and we shine The...

Tea, the dating safety app designed to help women vet potential partners, was hacked, exposing the very people it was designed to protect, personal pictures, and verification information like images of drivers’s licenses. We also discuss, Astronomer, the AI company whose now former CEO and Head of HR were caught in an adulterous embrace on...

Black folks shouldn't have to “code switch” to get large language models to understand them, and this is why Howard University and Google have teamed on Project Elevate Black Voices. In this episode, we also discuss… The White House declaring war on “Woke AI” — Read MoreOpen AI not caring about competition rules — Read...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss… Jack Dorsey's new internetless messaging platform, Grok being all kinds of racist and seeming designed to check what Elon thinks before it replies, Meta's new AI Dream Team lacking women and people of color, and if we've found a solution to deep fakes. Hosts:Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewoodStephanie...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss… Apple's reversal on possibly integrating Anthropic or OpenAI with Siri, Hertz using AI to scan for rental car damage, a US version of TikTok coming out Sept. 5th, and Black AI minstrel shows have begun. Hosts:Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines – @BrothaTech Stories Mentioned: Apple weighs...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn we discuss… ICE's new facial recognition mobile app, Tinder requiring new California users to use facial recognition to verify their accounts, Section 230 not sheilding Meta and TikTok in a “subway surfing” wrongful death suit, and if AI and robotics are coming for your braids. Hosts:Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewoodStephanie...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we discuss WhatsApp adding ads to the platform, Black influencers shining on the Forbes Top Creators list, smartphone users paying for AI access on their devices, and if Apple should buy the AI startup Perplexity. Hosts:Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines – @BrothaTech Stories Mentioned: WhatsApp is adding ads...

In this episode of The Tech Jawn we discuss Google downsizing its search team, the Trump family starting a phone carrier, and what graduating seniors should do after high school. We've got all this and more in episode 182 of The Tech Jawn. Hosts:Robb Dunewood – @RobbDunewoodStephanie Humphrey – @TechLifeStephTerrance Gaines – @BrothaTech Guest Host:Lamarr Wilson – @LamarrWilson...