Podcast Episodes

Google sues Chinese scammers using Gemini AI for fraud

The company is also promoting legislation to fight the potential of AI to create 'massive' scams

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1 week ago

Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, Trump threatened a 100 percent tariff on French wine over the country’s tech tax, and the UK will ban social media for children under 16

-The Fox Corporation announced it will be acquiring Roku, best known for its streaming device ecosystem for about $22 billion for Roku, or $160 per s…

1 week ago

Artemis III's life support: How a spacesuit keeps astronauts alive on the moon

The astronaut wears Prada.

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1 week, 3 days ago

Apple says Siri AI won't suck up to you, Textiles that can produce drinking water from the air, and the Trump phone is practically the same as an HTC handset

-Apple designed Siri to put up and maintain boundaries, so to speak. "Siri really wants to say, 'Listen, that's not what I'm here for, right? I'm her…

1 week, 3 days ago

Snap will no longer allow younger teens' Spotlight videos to be publicly viewable

Maybe it wasn't a great idea to let 14-year-olds post videos to Spotlight in the first place.

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1 week, 4 days ago

Anthropic backtracked on its policy that 'sabotaged' researchers' work, Bluesky will a Reddit-style communities this year, and Deezer will now help you find AI music on other streaming platforms

-Anthropic is walking back a policy that discreetly hamstrung researchers using its new Claude Fable 5 LLM to create competing AI models.

-Bluesky sa…

1 week, 4 days ago

The UK is investigating Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery

The first phase of the CMA's probe into the $110 billion deal could last for two months.

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1 week, 5 days ago

Waymo made a virtual human driver to improve its robotaxis, Seattle will impose a year-long ban on large data centers, and Kalshi will require employment info for some bets

-Waymo's ReD is based on a neuroscientific concept called active inference, which posits that people are always trying to minimize surprise.

-The Se…

1 week, 5 days ago

Apple reintroduces the AI-powered Siri it announced at WWDC 2024

Say hello to Siri AI.

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1 week, 6 days ago

Meta quietly removed facial-recognition code from its smart glasses app, WhatsApp says spyware maker NSO Group is still targeting its users, and the UK will review its NHS contract with Palantir

-Wired uncovered the dormant tool that contained algorithms which would have converted photos of faces into biometric identifiers stored on-device an…

1 week, 6 days ago