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May 07, 2023TWiT 926: Bias, Hallucinations, and Jail Breaks - AI chatbots, Writer's Guild strike, Pluto ad-supported TV
AI chatbots, Writer's Guild strike, Pluto ad-supported TV
AI is already writing books, websites, and online recipes.

AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms.

Google Adding AI Chatbot, More Video to Stay On Top of Search.

Amnesty International criticized for using AI-generated images.

I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family.

Larry Magid: Voice cloning makes virtual kidnapping more convincing.

DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs.

Samsung Bans ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Other Generative AI Use by Staff After Leak.

Writers Guild On Strike Against Hollywood Studios As Contract Talks With Fail.

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says writers' strike will be ended by 'love for the business and the love for working.'

Pluto co-founder is building an ad-supported TV.

Judge Dismisses F.T.C. Lawsuit Against Kochava, a Location Data Broker.

Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in.

Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy.

The Morning After: Google officially reveals its first foldable phone: The Pixel Fold.

'The Godfather of AI' Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead.

Tim Cook Just Was Asked About AI. His 3-Word Response Was the Best I've Heard Yet.

Inside Amazon's canceled plan to make Halo a fitness success.

Solidigm Synergy 2.0 SSD Software with benchmarks.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louise Matsakis, Allyn Malventano, and Janko Roettgers

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2 hr 23 min
April 30, 2023TWiT 925: Gradually Then Suddenly - Bluesky, the end of Twitter, Flipper Zero, Supreme Court and AI
Bluesky, the end of Twitter, Flipper Zero, Supreme Court and AI
Bluesky buzz: Why the social media platform is being called the next Twitter.

Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk shouldn't have bought Twitter after all.

More on moderation and security challenges of social media.

What would Alex do if we were to start from scratch with social media?

Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media.

Alex talks about the WiFi Pineapple.

Flipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks.

Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checks.

There Is No A.I.

OpenAI: ChatGPT back in Italy after meeting watchdog demands.

Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but...

AI For Everyone Course.

US Supreme Court rejects computer scientist's lawsuit over AI-generated inventions.

U.S. Supreme Court to decide if public officials can block critics on social media.

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk.

The web's most important decision.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Stamos, Jeff Jarvis, and Brianna Wu

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2 hr 52 min
April 23, 2023TWiT 924: Three Spiders a Night - Musk risk intensifies, UK emergency alert, Google AI panic, Parrots on Zoom
Musk risk intensifies, UK emergency alert, Google AI panic, Parrots on Zoom
Elon Musk Figured Out the Media's Biggest Weakness.

In 24 Hours, Elon Musk Reignited His Reputation for Risk.

Twitter Blue nets 28 signups so far since legacy checkmark purge.

There Is No A.I.

How My AI Image Won a Major Photography Competition.

Emergency alert test fails to sound on some phones.

School Chromebooks are creating huge amounts of e-waste.

Can Parrots Talk Over Video Chat? Experiment Shows How They Adapt and Connect.

Here's How You Can Get In On Facebook's $725 Million Class Action Settlement.

Chip designer Arm makes its own advanced prototype semiconductor.

Tesla wins lawsuit over Autopilot Model S crash.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai's 2022 Compensation Valued at $226 Million.

Google's AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain.

Alphabet's Google and DeepMind Pause Grudges, Join Forces to Chase OpenAI.

Google's rush to win in AI led to ethical lapses, employees say.

YouTube TV is testing significant picture quality improvements.

Netflix's DVD Business: Redbox Owner Interested in Buying Division.

Imgur will ban explicit images on its platform this month.

When Apple Comes Calling, 'It's the Kiss of Death'

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nate Lanxon, Mike Elgan, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 43 min
April 16, 2023TWiT 923: Intelligence Explosion - Substack Notes, AI guardrails, WWDC, Meta morale, HBO Max, X Corp
Substack Notes, AI guardrails, WWDC, Meta morale, HBO Max, X Corp
Substack unveils the product that got it banned from Twitter.

Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn't Realize He's Just Become The Nazi Bar.

Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT.

European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force.

China Mandates Security Reviews for AI Services Like ChatGPT.

AI is already taking video game illustrators' jobs in China.

Twitter Isn't a Company Anymore.

Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI.

Apple Plans to Launch More Than Just Its New Headset at WWDC.

The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market.

Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis at Meta.

Montana Lawmakers Approve Statewide Ban on TikTok.

Why progressive lawmakers are fighting against a TikTok ban.

Google confirms pricing plans for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV.

HBO Max to Be Renamed 'Max' With Addition of Discovery+ Content, Launch Date, and Pricing Revealed.

The End of Computer Magazines in America.

Host: Jason Howell

Guests: Jason Hiner, Dan Patterson, and Ant Pruitt

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April 09, 2023TWiT 922: AI Hustlers - Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite
Bloomberg's large language model, Twitter open source code, E3 Cancelled, Sony Q Lite
Biden eyes AI dangers, says tech companies must ensure products are safe.

A viral image of the Pope in a white coat was faked with AI.

Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data.

What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? BloombergGPT aims to be a domain-specific AI for business news.

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT.

Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral.

At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free.

What did Twitter's 'open source' algorithm actually reveal? Not a lot.

Musk's Twitter Downranks Any Post Regarding the 'Ukraine Crisis'.

Dogecoin jumps more than 30% after Musk changes Twitter logo to an image of Shiba inu.

New Analysis Shows News Industry Reaps Considerable Economic Benefit from Facebook.

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'.

Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive.

Google to cut some of its perks to cut costs amid AI race.

Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts.

Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures.

E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out.

Super Mario Bros. movie has the largest domestic opening of the year ($146M), the global debut is huge too ($377.5M).

Sony is reportedly working on a remote play-only handheld, the Q Lite.

Host: Devindra Hardawar

Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Anthony Ha, and Doc Rock

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2 hr 9 min
April 02, 2023TWiT 921: The Swiftie Panel - Apple Pay Later, Twitter Alternative, April Fool's
Apple Pay Later, Twitter Alternative, April Fool's
Best of April Fool's Pranks

GM is cutting off access to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for its future EVs

The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess

3 things everyone's getting wrong about AI

Apple announces WWDC 2023 for June 5-9

At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles

Apple Releases iOS 16.4 With New Emoji, Safari Web Push Notifications, Beta Changes, Voice Isolation for Calls and More

Apple Pay Later is finally launching

E3 Cancelled After Big Tech Players Drop Out

Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity

The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else

T2 - Twitter Alternative

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Alex Wilhelm, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Christina Warren

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2 hr 38 min
March 26, 2023TWiT 920: Biological Bootloaders - Apple VR Goggles, TikTok Ban, Twitter Source Code Leak
Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won't sell

Red Team Blues

The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library

Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead

Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94

Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun

Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and their impact on humanity

How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security

A TikTok ban would upend Hollywood

Introducing Acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool

At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles - The New York Times

Part of Twitter Source Code Leaked

The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI

Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion

The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions

Man Loses Maine Vanity Plates Describing His Love For Bean Mush

A 90-Year-Old Tortoise Named Mr. Pickles Is a New Dad of Three

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Rene Ritchie, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson

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2 hr 42 min
March 19, 2023TWiT 919: Hallucinating Bagels - GPT-4, TikTok's looming fate, Internet Archive vs Libraries, Olympic Esports
GPT-4, TikTok's looming fate, Internet Archive vs Libraries, Olympic Esports
OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.

Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive.

Here's how to participate in Monday's oral arguments.

TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers.

The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance's Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists.

Why are the Olympic Esports Series games so strange? We asked the IOC.

Meta's place in the social media landscape.

The Ugly Lessons of Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse.

The Over-Financialization Of Tech And The SVB Backlash.

Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.

Dark Web 'BreachForums' Operator Charged With Computer Crime.

FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages.

Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update.

GM wants to bring ChatGPT-like assistant to drivers.

Google is working on AI for ultrasound diagnosis and cancer therapy.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Steven Levy

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2 hr 44 min
March 12, 2023TWiT 918: Rational Minds Have Prevailed - Silicon Valley Bank collapse, FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, Apple headset
Silicon Valley Bank collapse, FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, Apple headset
Hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits stuck at Silicon Valley Bank.

Etsy is delaying seller payouts following Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.

FDIC to Silicon Valley Bank workers. We'll give you a 50% raise or double-time OT, but you'll lose your job in 45 days.

U.S. officials weigh protecting all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank.

Silicon Valley Bank profit squeeze in tech downturn attracts short sellers.

Meta to end Canadians' access to news on Facebook and Instagram if Bill C-18 becomes law.

Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC.

Report: Apple CEO Tim Cook Ordered Headset Launch Despite Designers Warning It Wasn't Ready.

Daylight savings time change 2023 starts Sunday with "spring forward".

Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle

The privacy loophole in your doorbell.

YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.

Apple Music Classical app launching March 28.

Chat with Jason Calacanis (post credits)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Lisa Schmeiser, Reed Albergotti, Glenn Fleishman, and Jason Calacanis

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March 05, 2023TWiT 917: Pwn Not Bone - AI as parlor trick, LastPass hack detailed, Xerox Alto, TikTok ban, blogger registry
AI as parlor trick, LastPass hack detailed, Xerox Alto, TikTok ban, blogger registry
Bing Chat has a secret 'Celebrity' mode to impersonate celebrities.

@emollick: Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.

CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.

Father Robert defines the Singularity.

LastPass: DevOps engineer hacked to steal password vault data in 2022 breach.

Microsoft set to win EU nod on Activision with licensing offer, sources say.

Amazon Illegally Fired NYC Union Organizer, Labor Board Says.

50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World.

Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer.

Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, software liability reform.

Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state.

U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.

White House: Federal agencies have 30 days to remove TikTok from devices.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Dan Moren

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