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This Week in Tech (Audio)

TWiT 999: Bananas and Browsers - CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

CA AI Bill Veto, Meta's Orion, FTC Vs. Fake Reviews

  • Sam Altman's AI Manifesto
  • News from Meta Connect
  • Gavin Newsom vetoes sweeping AI safety bill, siding with Silicon Valley
  • The Panel discusses CoPilot
  • The Panel debates AGI
  • James Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI in Coup for Tech Firm
  • SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against 'League of Legends'
  • Rabbit says only 5,000 people use the R1 daily
  • Orion: True AR Glasses Have Arrived
  • AI smackdown: How a new FTC ruling just protected the free press
  • DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says
  • Firefox Review Checker - Ensure review authenticity in your online shopping
  • New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations
  • The DOJ sues Visa for locking out rival payment platforms
  • NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
  • Some Mad Genius Put ChatGPT on a TI-84 Graphing Calculator
  • 23andMe troubles, company recently settled data insecurity suit for $30 mil

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Parmy Olson, Daniel Rubino, and Henry Laporte

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0:00.0

It's time for Twit this week in tech. We're going to kick things off with a visit with my son.

0:04.4

Salt Hank, his new book is coming out. And speaking to new books, we also have Parma Alson on.

0:09.2

She is the author of a brand new book about AI. Fascinating called Supremacy.

0:14.1

Denise Howell, my internet attorney joins us

0:16.6

and from Windows Central Daniel Rubino,

0:18.7

lots of AI talk, but lots of other stories too.

0:21.6

Twit is next.

0:23.7

Podcasts you love.

0:28.1

From people you trust.

0:30.6

This is Twit

0:37.0

This is Twit this week in tech episode episode 999, recorded Sunday, September 29, 2024. Bananas and browsers. It's time for Twit this week at Tech, the show we get together with some of the best names in the tech

1:02.0

journalism business talk about the week's tech news.

1:05.6

I'm going to break format a little bit briefly here because I'm a proud papa and my son's new cookbook is coming out on Tuesday and I thought I just I

1:17.6

thought I get Salt Hank on just to talk a little bit about Salt Hank about the cookbook

1:22.4

give him a little bit of a plug.

1:24.3

And then we'll get to our panel.

1:25.5

We've got a great panel for you.

1:27.5

Ladies a gentleman, I'd like to introduce you to somebody, I know pretty well,

1:31.8

a long-time member of the family.

1:33.9

Since he was born I've known this guy.

1:36.2

My son Henry Laport, better known as Salt Hank.

1:40.0

What's going on?

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