TWiT 981: Grab Your Rabbit - Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Summary

Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation

OpenAI didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT, records show
China's latest answer to OpenAI is 'Chat Xi PT'
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
Rabbit Holed
Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs
A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decision
Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand
Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
Kabosu, Shiba Inu dog who inspired 'Doge' meme, dies at 18
Bitcoin pizza day
C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Wesley Faulkner, and Alex Wilhelm

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week at Tech Christina Warren's here.
0:02.8	Alex Wilhelm West Faulkner, we have some great stuff to talk about a lot of AI in the news.
0:08.5	Scarlet Johanson, a little mad at open AI.
0:12.0	ICQ says bye-bye Microsoft announces AI PCs that can help you play
0:19.8	Minecraft plus that rabbit R1, turns out, not so great. It's all coming up next on
0:28.6	Twitter.
0:29.6	Podcasts you love. from people you trust.
0:35.0	This is Twit. This is
0:46.0	This is Twid. This week in Tech, episode 981,
0:49.0	recorded Sunday, May 26, 2024.
0:53.0	Grab your Rabbit.
0:54.0	It's time for Twit this week at Tech the show we get together with some of my favorite people to talk about tech.
1:05.0	Honestly, that's the only criterion these days.
1:08.0	It's got to be people I want to talk about tech with like the wonderful Wesley Faulkner who works for someone we can't talk about
1:16.0	but he is on the Mastodon at Wesley 83 and is super smart and now that you're
1:22.2	going a little gray we think you're even smarter.
1:24.0	That's the key.
1:25.0	Thank you.
1:26.0	I used to work with a host at Tech TV who did not have gray hair, jet black hair.
1:31.0	He died his temples gray so people would trust him more.
1:35.0	This just means I was made in a lab.
1:39.0	Oh, that's good.
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