August 10, 2025

This Week in Tech 1044: Elephants on the Moon

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August 10, 2025

This Week in Tech 1044: Elephants on the Moon

Listen Later

2 hours 43 minutes

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.

Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT

Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain

Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company

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Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas

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Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift

Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?

Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer

San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024

Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Doc Rock, and Wesley Faulkner

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