July 20, 2025

This Week in Tech 1041: A $4 Bill

2 hours 41 minutes

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're already our own surveillance state

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

OpenAI LLM's gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition

Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears

Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for Crypto Industry

Engadget Podcast: Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool

DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists

EU backs down on Big Tech tax ahead of US trade deal

Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats

EU to test age-check app under new child safety rules - 9to5Mac

Trump administration to spend $1 billion on 'offensive' hacking operations | TechCrunch

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

Uber to invest in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal

YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It

I Tested the Galaxy Z Fold 7: It's Slim, Powerful and Surprisingly Practical

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Iain Thomson, and Devindra Hardawar

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