Podcast Episodes

Bytes: Week in Review - Quantifying AI's impact on job cuts

On today's “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we discuss federal cybersecurity cutbacks that affected this week’s elections and a caucus of Midwestern states pushing to join the AI boom. Plus, Sens. Josh …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Former regional Fed president: We need an "AI land grant act"

Big tech companies have invested hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure, including data centers that are popping up all over the country. Constructing the facilities brings in jobs to local commun…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Silicon Valley's tech bro culture is changing

Rya Jetha, tech culture reporter at The San Francisco Standard, spends a lot of time thinking about the industry’s internal dynamics. Gone are the computer programmers, self-proclaimed nerds of an er…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Sora 2's disinformation problem

OpenAI’s latest AI video generator Sora 2 has gotten a lot of attention for its realistic creations. The tool is supposed to have guardrails to prevent creating videos based on misinformation.

But ne…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Sam Bankman-Fried returns to court to challenge fraud verdict

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is serving 25 years in federal prison for fraud. His company collapsed and went bankrupt in 2022. Investigators found that bi…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Bytes: Week in Review - Is AI to blame for this week's wave of layoffs?

Several major firms announced tens of thousands of job layoffs this week, and some reports are putting the blame on AI. Plus, startup Character.AI says it will ban minors from interacting with its ch…

Published on 2 months ago

California's public GPU infrastructure experiment

Graphics processing units are essential to training and deploying artificial intelligence models, but they don’t come cheap. Big Tech companies like Meta, Microsoft and xAI have spent billions, amass…

Published on 2 months ago

“China’s H-1B” talent visa gets praise abroad and backlash at home

Beijing is making it easier for global science and tech talent to visit or do business in China. Chinese officials opened a new K visa for graduates in science, technology, engineering and math to d…

Published on 2 months ago

Wikipedia co-founder: Trust and empathy are essential

In his new book, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales writes ”in the early years of the internet, we were right to be bullish about people and the technology. Our capacity for social connection, communit…

Published on 2 months ago

Sites marketed as tools for catching infidelity can also be misused by stalkers

There are a lot of trending videos of people using face recognition tools to find cheating partners on dating apps. On TikTok, for example, videos have gone viral about people explaining how to use t…

Published on 2 months ago