TWiT 1025: Weak Perfection - Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T
- Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare
- Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style
- No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
- Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All
- Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak
- Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
- Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office
- 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down
- Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
- As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next
- Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
- China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?
- Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too
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Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Oh, it's a big show. Alex Cantowitz is here from the big technology podcast. Ian Thompson from the register and brand new to the show, Jacob Ward, former NBC journalist who has written an really interesting book about AI called The Loop. We will talk about the entire world turning studio Ghiby, thanks to chat GPT, and breaking news, Sam Altman saying, knock it off, you're killing me here. |
| 0:29.3 | We'll also talk about the White House signal breach and why you probably shouldn't be using signal for your most secret war plans. |
| 0:38.5 | And what do I do with my spit now that 23 and me is bankrupt? |
| 0:43.5 | All that more next on Twit. |
| 0:49.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:51.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:53.5 | This is Twit. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:02.2 | This week in Tech, episode 1025, recorded Sunday, March 30th, 2025. |
| 1:09.3 | Week Perfection. |
| 1:18.0 | Thank you. March 30th, 2025. Week Perfection. It's time for Twyp this week in tech, the show we get together and talk about the week's tech news. |
| 1:23.5 | What a week it's been. |
| 1:26.2 | Holy moly. |
| 1:27.6 | Want to welcome Jacob Ward. |
| 1:29.0 | Jake's a first timer, so it'll be nice to him. |
| 1:32.5 | He's, but he just published a book called The Loop, but you can see a stack of them behind him about AI, reporter for NBC and all over the places. |
| 1:42.3 | Current newsletters called and podcast now, the rip current at the ripcurrent. |
| 1:48.5 | At the ripcurrent.com. |
| 1:50.0 | Jake, it's great to have you. |
| 1:51.1 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:52.1 | I appreciate you. |
| 1:52.6 | Thank you for having me. |
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