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This Week in Tech (Video) episodes
- TWiT 1090: Flock of SQLs - Apple & Microsoft Grapple With Soaring Hardware Prices
Tech giants and chipmakers are facing off as AI-fueled memory shortages trigger sweeping price hikes on everything from Macs to game consoles. Hear why global supply chain standoffs, long-term contracts, and old-school market forces are quietly reshaping your daily technology.
- Apple and Microsoft hike prices on devices amid global memory shortages
- Surge in AI data centers drives RAM and storage crisis
- Intel's comeback: Core Ultra chips compete with AMD in handheld gaming
- Microsoft's pivot to ARM, Qualcomm-NVIDIA alliance, and x86 rivalry
- AI fear and backlash; organic concern amplified by international actors
- White House abruptly pulls Anthropic's Fable model, sparking industry uproar
- US government U-turns on AI regulation, restricts top models to select partners
- Tension over AI innovation vs. regulatory "rug pull" and global competition
- Smart home chaos: Matter 1.6 standard, Samsung and Level Lock shake-up
- Debate over local vs. cloud smart home control and API access fees
- Ring and Flock cameras ignite privacy and surveillance state concerns
- Social media bans for under-16s fail in Australia, UK, and Norway plan similar rules
- BBC Radio 4 long wave broadcast ends after a century
- Meta gets caught tracking employees for AI; PlayStation deletes owned movies
- US regulators propose removing brake pedals from Robotaxis
- Ford's automated systems flop, company rehiring engineers
- Farewell to tech journalist and GigaOm founder Om Malik
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Dan Patterson, and Daniel Rubino
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2 hr 42 min - TWiT 1089: Robot Butt Crack - Anthropic Banned, But Winning
AI giants are battling not just in code, but in politics, with behind-the-scenes lobbying, strategic naming, and rumors of blockbuster deals at the heart of this week's wildest tech stories. Get the inside scoop on who's pulling the strings.
- Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
- Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
- Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says
- Elon Musk's Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
- Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
- Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
- Google's Secret Warrant Fight Over DOJ Pipe Bomb Probe Revealed
- The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
- Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits
- Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones
- Snap Launches $2,195 Specs, Declaring Glasses the Next Computer
- Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it
- Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
- Nothing cancels this year's CMF phone due to RAM prices
- The AI IPO boom is different
- Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Founder, Dies in Laredo Plane Crash - RuntimeWire
- Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Doc Rock
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3 hr 20 min - TWiT 1088: Model Not Available - Anthropic's Fable Shutdown & Apple's Siri Update
The US government abruptly forced Anthropic to pull its most advanced AI model offline after fears it was simply too powerful to be safe. Hear the real story behind the sudden shutdown that rocked the tech world—and what it reveals about the uneasy alliance between Washington and Silicon Valley.
- Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model release sparks cybersecurity and jailbreak concerns
- White House pressures Anthropic to withdraw Fable amid security fears
- Debate over government intervention, model regulation, and Anthropic's IPO timing
- SpaceX IPO rockets to record-breaking $1.77 trillion valuation
- Apple unveils revamped Siri and Apple Intelligence at WWDC
- Apple's new child safety and parental controls in iOS
- OpenAI and Anthropic plot IPOs, face economic realities of AI industry
- Supply chain attacks hit Arch Linux packages, security risks highlighted
- Spotify battles surge of fake podcasts promoting illegal drugs
- German court rules Google AI overviews legally liable for inaccuracies
- FCC pursues crackdown on anonymous burner phones, raising privacy alarms
- North Korean hackers' massive infiltration of US tech sector exposed
- iFixit teardown reveals Trump Phone is just a rebadged HTC U24 Pro
- Smartphone and internet access linked to declining US birth rates
- Skydance-Paramount merger approved as Warner Bros seeks next mega deal
- Roku seeks buyer, raising questions about future streaming platforms
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Christina Warren, Harry McCracken, and Richard Campbell
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2 hr 40 min - TWiT 1087: Evil is the Root of All Money - Could Local AI Laptops Compete With Data Center Giants?
An astronomical amount of money is being poured into AI and data centers as tech giants fight for dominance, but is this fueling the next big tech bubble or just the price of staying in the game? Get the panel's opinions on wild IPO valuations, global power grabs, Build 2026, NVIDIA GTC Taipei, and even successful YouTuber movies!
- SpaceX IPO to Be Largest Ever at $135 Share Price
- Utah residents sue officials over Kevin O'Leary data center plan
- When AI builds itself
- NVIDIA announces RTX Spark as 'the most efficient PC chip ever built'
- Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards
- Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
- What to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2026: iOS 27, New Siri and AI
- Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
- Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
- Trump: U.S. stake in AI giants "could be a beautiful thing"
- Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers
- Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
- AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data
- YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar
- YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Joey de Villa, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
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2 hr 44 min - TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical & Ferrari's 1st EV
Explore everything from explosive technology for space to electric technology for the road. Leo, Molly, Gary, and Sam have deep discussions on Magnifica Humanitas takeaways, Wikipedia drama, Peter Thiel's mvoe to Argentina, and more!
- US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
- The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
- What Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
- Google's search overhaul has social media users baiting the 'AI Overview' to prove a point
- Apple to Overhaul iOS 27 Siri, AI Features: Here's a First Peek
- Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later, they revoked it.
- Wikipedia editor is threatening to go on strike
- Ferrari reveals its first EV, with design help from Jony Ive
- In Argentina, U.S. Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Finds An Escape
- Robotaxis Are Spreading Across the U.S.—and So Is the Backlash
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Gary Rivlin, Sam Abuelsamid, and Molly White
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3 hr - TWiT 1085: Waiting In Line With Sam - Musk vs. Altman: Behind the Scenes
Google is rewriting the rules of search, CBS News Radio just died after 99 years, and billionaires now own the newsrooms. This episode dives into what happens when technology giants tighten their grip on how we get information.
- Google's new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet
- Hands-On With All of Google's New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses
- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch show
- U.S. Invests $2 Billion and Takes Stake in Quantum Firms
- Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman
- GM Driver Data Privacy Lawsuit: California Fines GM $12.75 Million
- A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
- 'Creepy' Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn't Actually Work, FTC Says
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Larry Magid, Marshall Kirkpatrick, and Jacob Ward
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2 hr 54 min - TWiT 1084: Don't Overcook the Asparagus - US Tech Titans vs. China's Rising Innovators
Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China's pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US might need a new playbook to keep up.
- Trump and the CEOs go to China
- NVIDIA CEO joins Trump in China despite 'awkward' politics
- US clears H200 chip sales to 10 China firms as Nvidia CEO looks for breakthrough
- Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers
- The Class of 2026 is cooked
- Chinese AI groups pull ahead of US rivals in video generation race
- Google Weighs Using SpaceX to Launch Orbital Data Centers
- What smart people are saying about OpenAI's new $10 billion company to help businesses deploy AI
- Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup
- Your Mattress Got Worse on Purpose
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Harper Reed and Amy Webb
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2 hr 59 min - TWiT 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles - Which Religion Does AI Identify With?
Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!
- Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter
- Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
- The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
- Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica
- Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong
- Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI
- Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems
- Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
- Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October
- Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
- Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards
- NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;
- Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
- Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
- Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
- Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match
- Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
- Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot
- The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
- Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
- FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau
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2 hr 11 min - TWiT 1082: Hanging by a Thread - Are We Headed for a Tech Crash or a Golden Age?
Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions into AI, but with rising signs of an industry bubble and some real-world fallout, this week's episode digs into who actually wins, who stands to lose, and whether Apple's patient strategy may outsmart the hype.
- Big Tech firms beat earnings expectations amid AI spending questions
- RIP the $599 Mac Mini, you were too beautiful for this world
- Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
- Microsoft speeds up in Big Tech's data center spend-off
- Crosswording the Situation
- Meta's historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million
- Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks
- Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok
- Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram
- Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space
- Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI's models
- OpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year one
- Sam Altman asked GPT-5.5 to plan its own launch party. Its requests were 'beautiful' but 'strange.'
- Sam Altman says Elon Musk can come to his GPT 5.5 party: 'World needs more love'
- The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like
- Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading
- 'We Know You Live Right Here': No Secrets in America's New Surveillance Dragnet
- California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
- China Suspends New Autonomous Driving Permits After Baidu Outage
- China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
- Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
- The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
- Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites
- The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck
- Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public
- GameStop eyes eBay takeover in audacious $46 billion bet on Ryan Cohen's e-commerce vision
- AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars
- Ukraine says it's training drone pilots in 'Grand Theft Auto V'
- This free website is like Wikipedia meets the CIA
- Light Phone III Is a Delightfully Minimalist Smartphone Alternative
- Valve Steam Controller is here, it's a gamepad in search of a console
- Bluetooth Connected - The Voices Behind the Connection
- Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump's war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices
- Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler
- Pioneering geneticist and decoder of the human genome J. Craig Venter dies at age 79
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Devindra Hardawar, and Mikah Sargent
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3 hr 11 min - TWiT 1081: That's Miasma - John Ternus Replacing Tim Cook as Apple CEO
Tim Cook's surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota's camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life.
- Toyota Woven City
- Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO
- Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy
- Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today
- Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up.
In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.- OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
- China's DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview- Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
- Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings
- Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
- Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
- What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun'
- Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
- Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
- Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant
- Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
- 'Scattered Spider' Member 'Tylerb' Pleads Guilty
- Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment
- The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars
- 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 bet
- To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
- This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
- The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline
- This pasta sauce wants to record your family
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Victoria Song, and Stacey Higginbotham
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