This Week in Tech (Audio)

Explore everything from explosive technology for space to electric technology for the road. Leo, Molly, Gary, and Sam have deep discussions on Magnifica Humanitas takeaways, Wikipedia drama, Peter Thiel's mvoe to Argentina, and more!

US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network

The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida

What Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI

Google's search overhaul has social media users baiting the 'AI Overview' to prove a point

Apple to Overhaul iOS 27 Siri, AI Features: Here's a First Peek

Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later, they revoked it.

Wikipedia editor is threatening to go on strike

Ferrari reveals its first EV, with design help from Jony Ive

In Argentina, U.S. Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Finds An Escape

Robotaxis Are Spreading Across the U.S.—and So Is the Backlash

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Gary Rivlin, Sam Abuelsamid, and Molly White

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Google is rewriting the rules of search, CBS News Radio just died after 99 years, and billionaires now own the newsrooms. This episode dives into what happens when technology giants tighten their grip on how we get information.

Google's new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet

Hands-On With All of Google's New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch show

U.S. Invests $2 Billion and Takes Stake in Quantum Firms

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman

GM Driver Data Privacy Lawsuit: California Fines GM $12.75 Million

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

'Creepy' Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn't Actually Work, FTC Says

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Larry Magid, Marshall Kirkpatrick, and Jacob Ward

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Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China's pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US might need a new playbook to keep up.

Trump and the CEOs go to China

NVIDIA CEO joins Trump in China despite 'awkward' politics

US clears H200 chip sales to 10 China firms as Nvidia CEO looks for breakthrough

Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers

The Class of 2026 is cooked

Chinese AI groups pull ahead of US rivals in video generation race

Google Weighs Using SpaceX to Launch Orbital Data Centers

What smart people are saying about OpenAI's new $10 billion company to help businesses deploy AI

Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup

Your Mattress Got Worse on Purpose

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Amy Webb

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Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!

Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica

Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong

Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI

Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems

Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement

Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October

Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money

Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards

NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;

Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA

Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over

Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites

Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match

Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day

Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot

The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau

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Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions into AI, but with rising signs of an industry bubble and some real-world fallout, this week's episode digs into who actually wins, who stands to lose, and whether Apple's patient strategy may outsmart the hype.

Big Tech firms beat earnings expectations amid AI spending questions

RIP the $599 Mac Mini, you were too beautiful for this world

Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises

Microsoft speeds up in Big Tech's data center spend-off

Crosswording the Situation

Meta's historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million

Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok

Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram

Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space

Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI's models

OpenAI-backed 1X opens California factory targeting 10,000 home humanoid robots in year one

Sam Altman asked GPT-5.5 to plan its own launch party. Its requests were 'beautiful' but 'strange.'

Sam Altman says Elon Musk can come to his GPT 5.5 party: 'World needs more love'

The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like

Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading

'We Know You Live Right Here': No Secrets in America's New Surveillance Dragnet

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

China Suspends New Autonomous Driving Permits After Baidu Outage

China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites

The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck

Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public

GameStop eyes eBay takeover in audacious $46 billion bet on Ryan Cohen's e-commerce vision

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

Ukraine says it's training drone pilots in 'Grand Theft Auto V'

This free website is like Wikipedia meets the CIA

Light Phone III Is a Delightfully Minimalist Smartphone Alternative

Valve Steam Controller is here, it's a gamepad in search of a console

Bluetooth Connected - The Voices Behind the Connection

Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump's war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices

Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler

Pioneering geneticist and decoder of the human genome J. Craig Venter dies at age 79

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Nicholas De Leon, Devindra Hardawar, and Mikah Sargent

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