Episode Details

The MacVoices Live! panel explores Meta's push to dominate AI with its new "super intelligence" team, raising privacy concerns and skepticism over its motives. WhatsApp's move to introduce ads prompts worries about user data and ad targeting is discussed, by Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Jim Rea, Web Bixby, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, and Marty Jencius, along with the bizarre launch of a Trump-branded smartphone and its questionable specs and capabilities.

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Chapters:

00:05 Meta's AI Super Team 08:49 WhatsApp Ads and Privacy Concerns 16:24 Trump Mobile: A New Contender?

Links:

Meta is reportedly forming an "AI Superintelligence" team https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-reportedly-forming-an-ai-superintelligence-team-133030015.html

Meta is bringing ads to WhatsApp. Privacy experts are sounding the alarm https://www.fastcompany.com/91353012/meta-is-bringing-ads-to-whatsapp-privacy-experts-are-sounding-the-alarm

Trump Mobile is here. Experts are baffled https://www.fastcompany.com/91352863/trump-mobile-is-here-experts-are-baffled

Guests:

Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Brian Flanigan-Arthurs is an educator with a passion for providing results-driven, innovative learning strategies for all students, but particularly those who are at-risk. He is also a tech enthusiast who has a particular affinity for Apple since he first used the Apple IIGS as a student. You can contact Brian on twitter as @brian8944. He also recently opened a Mastodon account at @brian8944@mastodon.cloud.

David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Tou