This Week in Tech (Video)

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This Week in Tech (Video) episodes

January 11TWiT 1066: A Supercomputer in Your Pocket - CES & the Next Leap for On-Device AI Power
Is putting a camera in your toilet the future of health, or have tech companies lost the plot? This episode's panel digs into what's truly innovative versus what's just over the top, as industry leaders spar over privacy concerns and the real impact of AI in everyday devices.
We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry

Boston Dynamics unveils production-ready version of Atlas robot at CES 2026

Hair Drying Robot

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia's New Vera Rubin Chips Are in 'Full Production'

AMD's Ryzen AI 400 series includes the first Copilot+ desktop CPU — Team Red refreshes Zen 5 APUs and Strix Halo

Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses

Lego's Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain

The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone in early access

Throne, from the co-founder of Whoop, uses computer vision to study your poop

The Verge Awards at CES 2026

These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Jason Hiner

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January 04TWiT 1065: AI Action Park - DeepSeek's mHC Model Training Breakthrough!
Happy New Year! NVIDIA just spent $20 billion to hollow out an AI company for its brains, while Meta and Google scramble to scoop up fresh talent before AI gets "too weird to manage." Who's winning, who's left behind, and what do these backroom deals mean for the future of artificial intelligence?
Andrej Karpathy admits programmers cannot keep pace with AI advances

Economic uncertainty in AI despite massive stock market influence

Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft drive AI productization for business and consumers

OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini battle for consumer AI dominance

Journalism struggles to keep up with AI realities and misinformation tools

Concerns mount over AI energy, water, and environmental impact narratives

Meta buys Manus, expands AI agent ambitions with Llama model

OpenAI posts high-stress "Head of Preparedness" job worth $555K+

Training breakthroughs: DeepSeek's mHC and comparisons to Action Park

U.S. lawmakers push broad, controversial internet censorship bills

Age verification and bans spark state laws, VPN workaround explosion

U.S. drone ban labeled protectionist as industry faces tech shortages

FCC security initiatives falter; Cyber Trust Mark program scrapped

Waymo robotaxis stall in blackouts, raising AV urban planning issues

School cellphone bans expose kids' struggle with analog clocks

MetroCard era ends in NYC as tap-to-pay takes over subway access

RAM, VRAM, and GPU prices soar as AI and gaming squeeze supply

CES preview: Samsung QD-OLED TV, Sony AFEELA car, gadget show hype

Remembering Stewart Cheifet and Computer Chronicles' legacy

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson and Joey de Villa

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December 28, 2025TWiT 1064: TWiT Best 0f 2025 - 2025's Best Moments on TWiT
AI video generation

TWiT turns 20

Harper Reed on vibe-coding

Job loss and AI

Apple's iPhone 16 event

Amy Webb's crazy husband talks about his anonymous computer

Host: Leo Laporte

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December 21, 2025TWiT 1063: The Year's End - Top Stories of 2025
After a year tangled in political drama, AI hype, and regulation battles, the TWiT crew explains how many of tech's "biggest stories" simply fizzled into nothing or left us with new headaches by year's end.
Year-end tech trends: AI, politics, and security dominated 2025

Major stories faded fast: TikTok saga, political tech drama, DOGE scandal

TikTok's ownership battle—Oracle, Trump donors, and US-China tensions

China tech fears: banned drones, IoT vulnerabilities, secret radios in buses

Rising political pressure for internet privacy and media literacy reform

Surveillance and kill switch concerns in US grid and port infrastructure

Convenience vs. privacy: Americans trade data for discounts and ease

Age verification, surveillance, and flawed facial recognition across countries

Discord's ID leak highlights risks of rushed compliance with privacy laws

Social media's impact on kids pushes age-gating and verification laws

ISPs monetize customer data, VPNs pitched for personal privacy

Global government crackdowns: UK bans VPN advertising, mandates age checks

The illusion of absolute privacy: flawed age gates and persistent tracking

AI takes over: explosive growth, but profits elusive for big players

Arms race in LLMs: DeepSeek's breakthrough, OpenAI/Meta talent bidding war

Ad-driven models still rule; Amazon's playbook repeated in AI

Humanoid robots and AGI hype: skepticism vs. Silicon Valley optimism

AI-generated art, media, and the challenge of deepfake detection

Social platforms falter: Instagram and X swamped by fake or low-value content

Google's legal, regulatory, and technical woes: ad tech trial, Manifest V3 backlash

RAM price spikes and hardware shortages blamed on AI data center demand

YouTube overtakes mobile for podcast and video viewing, Oscars move online

The internet's growth: Cloudflare stats, X vs. Reddit, spam domain trends

Weird tech stories: hacked crosswalks, Nintendo Switch 2 Staplegate, LEGO theft ring

Sad farewell: Lamar Wilson's passing and mental health awareness in tech

Reflections on the year's turbulence and hopes for a better 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Paris Martineau, and Steve Gibson

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December 14, 2025TWiT 1062: The Architects of AI - Can Small Models Outrun the Data Center Boom?
Are we witnessing an AI-fueled gold rush or the early signs of an epic crash? Listen to these hard-hitting discussions on bubbles, breakthroughs, and the real impact behind Silicon Valley's AI obsession.
Time Magazine's "Person of the Year": the Architects of AI

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to Be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.

'ChatGPT for Doctors' Startup Doubles Valuation to $12 Billion as Revenue Surges

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal

It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas

Amazon Prime Video Pulls AI-Powered Recaps After Fallout Flub

Could America win the AI race but lose the war?

Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

The countdown to the world's first social media ban for children

US could demand five-year social media history from tourists before allowing entry

Reddit making global changes to protect kids after social media ban - 9to5Mac

There are no good outcomes for the Warner Bros. sale

Paramount CEO Made Trump a Secret Promise on CNN in Warner Bros. Convo

Whatnot's Schlock Empire Shows Digital Live Shopping Can Thrive in America

The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect

Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable - Slashdot

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sweeps The Game Awards — analysis and full winners list

Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program

An ex-Twitter lawyer is trying to bring Twitter back

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Jason Hiner

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3 hr 1 min
December 07, 2025TWiT 1061: Amy's Crazy Husband - Can One Build a Truly Anonymous Laptop?
What happens if your internet provider gets the blame for what you download? This week, the panel unpacks a billion-dollar copyright battle at the Supreme Court that could upend how we all use the web.
Justice Alito Makes The Most Sense, Or This Week At The Supreme Court In The Cox-Sony Copyright Case

First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of

These new FDA-approved glasses promise to slow nearsightedness in kids. Here's how they work

Amazon Tests U.S. Ultrafast Delivery Offering

What the heck is going on at Apple? | CNN Business

Meta's Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts

Meta acquires AI device startup Limitless

Instagram mandates total return to office for employees in 2026

Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It? - Slashdot

School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement

RoboCop statue rises in Detroit: 'Big, beautiful, bronze piece of art'

People who talk with their hands seem clearer, more persuasive - Fast Company

(a petition to cancel Twitter's trademark for abandonment)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Amy Webb, Cathy Gellis, and Brian Woolf

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2 hr 55 min
November 30, 2025TWiT 1060: A Shortage of Shame - Why Black Friday Numbers Aren't What You Think
Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers.
Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed

Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends

View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury

'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech

Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea

China leapfrogs US in global market for "open" AI models

Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses

The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug

Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse

Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device

One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it

How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan

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2 hr 44 min
November 23, 2025TWiT 1059: I'm Interested in Your Toolset - Why Your Favorite Site Went Dark This Week
A judge is racing to break up Google's advertising empire before they can appeal, while Microsoft's Copilot stumbles on camera. Australia's sweeping social bans, Roblox's selfie requirement, and flawed AI moderation spark sharp debate on what happens when online gatekeeping gets serious.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls

NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids

Roblox is requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie to prove age

Outage at Cloudflare Disrupts Parts of the Internet

It's not just you, many websites are not working this morning amid Cloudflare outage

Cloudflare-related variation on the classic XKCD

Trump's DOGE Is Dead and We Won't Miss It

Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws

Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent

780,000 Windows Users Downloaded Linux Distro Zorin OS in the Last 5 Weeks

Fortnite is getting Unity games

Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

SEC Dismisses Case Against SolarWinds, Top Security Officer

Google Starts Testing Ads In AI Mode

A decision about breaking up Google's adtech monopoly is on the horizon

Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream

White House Tries to axe the GAIN act (Act that would have prevented AI tech from being sold to other nations.)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Molly White, and Wesley Faulkner

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2 hr 58 min
November 16, 2025TWiT 1058: Furry Little Potatoes - Smart Glasses & Everyday "Surveillance"
Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses steal the spotlight on a Rome trip, triggering debates about privacy, wearable tech etiquette, and the uncomfortable power of recording the world through your eyewear. Plus, gadgets scanning your urine, bots shaping your inbox, and the future of Disney+!
Counting Renaissance butts in Rome with the Meta Ray-Ban Display

Jury says Apple owes Masimo $634M for patent infringement

Google ordered to pay $665 million for anticompetitive practices in Germany

Disney and YouTube TV reach deal to end blackout

The future of Disney Plus could involve AI-generated videos

X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling

Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

iPhone Pocket revealed in hands-on videos of new Apple accessory

AMD continues to chip away at Intel's X86 market share — company now sells over 25% of all x86 chips and powers 33% of all desktop systems

Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

George Lucas' narrative art museum opens next year in LA

Spotify's new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

PNG is back!

3 SeatGuru alternatives for finding the best airline seats

What Are We Going to Do With 300 Billion Pennies?

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Victoria Song and Christina Warren

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3 hr 20 min
November 09, 2025TWiT 1057: Ferret Trousering - Can Apple TV Fix the Broken World of Streaming Sports?
Elon Musk's eye-popping trillion-dollar pay package, Apple's big F1 gamble, and Meta's scam-friendly ad policies set the stage for a candid debate on Big Tech's priorities and who really pays the price for innovation (and neglect).
Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached - Behold the one trillion dollar man

SpaceX to Buy Another $2.6 Billion of Echostar Spectrum

Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft

YouTube's Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

Scammy Ads Generated an Estimated 10% of Meta's Revenue in 2024

Texas Sues Roblox For Allegedly Failing To Protect Children On Its Platform

YouTube TV responds to Disney memo with no deal in sight

YouTube TV exec calls Disney 'unnecessarily aggressive'

Sports streaming is a fragmented hot mess

Denmark's Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15

The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works

China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors

Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people

Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

Trump AI Czar Says 'No Federal Bailout For AI' After OpenAI CFO's Comments

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo

Take-Two delays 'GTA VI' for second time to November next year

Apple TV's new Pluribus show might be its best sci-fi series yet

After more than 200 years, the 'Farmers' Almanac' is shutting down for good

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Ashley Esqueda, and Janko Roettgers

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3 hr 4 min

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