TWiT 1017: Yellow-Bellied Marmots - Return of Pebble, O3-Mini, Apple AI

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 196 minutes

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Takeaways From a Monumental Week for AI
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the 'wrong side of history' concerning open source | TechCrunch
DeepSeek's AI success is overshadowed by a serious security breac
AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU | TechCrunch
OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research, nuclear weapons security
The NTSB chooses Elon Musk's X to update the press on plane crashes
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest 'reasoning' model | TechCrunch
Rabbit R1 and Pebble
Apple's AI and AR Struggles Show It Has Lost Some of Its Product Edge
Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
Elon Musk's X sues Lego, Nestlé and more brands, accusing them of advertising boycott
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems
Elon Musk seizes computer system, locks out senior government officials
Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates
Super Bowl Sundays are really noisy everywhere in the US

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week of tech. Great panel for you. Christina Warren is here. She's got a new job.
0:05.6	Maybe we can find out what she's up to. Shoshana Weissman from R Street. She just wrote a piece on age
0:11.1	verification and why it's a terrible idea. And Dan Patterson, whose company specializes in
0:16.5	disinforming disinformation. Does that make sense? We will talk about an amazing week in AI, not just deep seek, but new models from open
0:26.9	AI. The breakdown of government websites, 8,000 websites and counting disappearing from the
0:34.1	internet, and 23 and me is about to sell your spit it's all coming up next
0:40.6	on twit podcasts you love from people you trust this is twit this is twit this is twit, This Week in Tech, episode 1017, recorded Sunday, February 2nd, 2025.
1:03.6	Yellow Bellied Marmots.
1:09.9	It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news, which is mostly AI this week.
1:16.3	But that's all right because we've got a panel that can handle the tough stuff.
1:21.2	Shoshana Weissman is here from our street.
1:23.2	Great to see the chairman of the sloth committee in person.
1:27.0	That's not a sloth that's a marmot yeah yeah
1:29.8	thank you for having me and my marmot oh are you now the chairman of the marmot committee no but i've
1:35.5	taken them up as an interest look how bad it is oh marmits are wonderful they move faster than sloths but not
1:41.5	much i mean not not when they're this chunky, but, uh, but they can move fast other times.
1:47.7	They're all chunky.
1:48.7	You know they have iron butts.
1:50.1	Did you know that?
1:51.4	They have iron butts.
1:52.6	They're a problem in Australia because they roll up, uh, when they're scared and they roll up in the highway and you hit them and it's really like hitting iron.
2:00.5	Because what? Yeah. They dive into their holes and they leave their butt. they roll up on the highway and you hit him and it's really like hitting iron because what yeah
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