February 16, 2025

This Week in Tech 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts

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2 hours 44 minutes

TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.

Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked

IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer

Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,

Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business

Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel

Arm to start making server CPUs in-house

Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence

Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry

YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as "Primary Device" for Viewing

Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral

Google CEO Sees 'Useful' Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away

Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost

Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's still screwed

Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event

Meta's Brain-to-Text AI

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough

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February 16, 2025

This Week in Tech 1019: Nickel for Your Thoughts

Listen Later

2 hours 44 minutes

TikTok is back on the App Store and the Play Store in the U.S.

Elon Musk's DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked

IRS Acquiring Nvidia Supercomputer

Elon's bid for OpenAI is about making the for-profit transition as painful as possible for Altman,

Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal for TSMC to take control of Intel's foundry business

Broadcom Joins TSMC In Considering Deals For Parts of Intel

Arm to start making server CPUs in-house

Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence

Perplexity just made AI research crazy cheap—what that means for the industry

YouTube Surprise: CEO Says TV Overtakes Mobile as "Primary Device" for Viewing

Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral

Google CEO Sees 'Useful' Quantum Computers 5 to 10 Years Away

Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost

Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy's still screwed

Amazon's revamped Alexa might launch over a month after its announcement event

Meta's Brain-to-Text AI

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Iain Thomson, and Brian McCullough

Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech

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