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This Week in Tech 1069: In My Head I Have 3 Buckets

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What happens when AI bots get their own social network, Silicon Valley execs cozy up to power, and Apple takes a cut from creators? This week's panel calls out the bold, bizarre, and often problematic ways tech's biggest players are reshaping everything from AI assistants to your everyday privacy.

  • There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird
  • Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
  • Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
  • Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say
  • Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
  • Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners
  • SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
  • Elon Musk reportedly wants a June SpaceX IPO to align with his birthday, the planets
  • Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of decline
  • Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon
  • Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines
  • What We Learned From Meta, Microsoft and Tesla
  • Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook 'heartbroken' after repeated ICE killings in Minneapolis
  • A rival smart glasses company is suing Meta over its Ray-Ban products
  • TikTok, YouTube, and Meta are headed to court for a landmark trial over social media addiction
  • The 'Social Media Addiction' Narrative May Be More Harmful Than Social Media Itself
  • TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection — here's what it means
  • A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
  • Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
  • Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US
  • Groundhogs are bad at predicting weather, but they're valuable animal engineers\
  • Satellites encased in wood are in the works
  • Belkin reminds users that its Wemo smart home products are shutting down this week

    • Host: Leo Laporte

    Guests: Gary Rivlin, Devindra Hardawar, and Victoria Song

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