April 19, 2026

This Week in Tech 1080: Destroy All Phonorecords

2 hours 48 minutes

As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos

Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found

You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.

Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI

AI anxiety is turning volatile

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.

Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul

The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules

Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One

Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case

Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping

Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada

Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights

What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?

TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company

Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Wesley Faulkner, and Glenn Fleishman

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April 19, 2026

This Week in Tech 1080: Destroy All Phonorecords

2 hours 48 minutes

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos

Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found

You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.

Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI

AI anxiety is turning volatile

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.

Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul

The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules

Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One

Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case

Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping

Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada

Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights

What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?

TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company

Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Wesley Faulkner, and Glenn Fleishman

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

Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!

Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

NetSuite.com/TWIT

zscaler.com/security

expressvpn.com/twit

shopify.com/twit

cachefly.com/twit

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