<ul> 
<li>Discussion of the surprise firing of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI by the board</li> 
<li>Explanation of the complicated structure of OpenAI as a nonprofit with a for-profit subsidiary</li> 
<li>Debate around the board's goals to slow down AI development versus Altman's push for progress</li> 
<li>Analysis of the ripple effects on Microsoft and partners who invested heavily in OpenAI</li> 
<li>Thoughts on cautions versus opportunities with generative AI and large language models</li> 
<li>News about Apple supporting RCS for higher quality messaging with Android</li> 
<li>Review of PlayStation Portal requiring PS5 for streaming</li> 
<li>Reactions to misspelled Evangelion motherboard from Asus</li> 
<li>Anticipation for 4K restoration of The Abyss and True Lies from James Cameron</li> 
<li>Discussion of YouTube disclosure rules for AI-generated content</li> 
<li>Analysis of recent advertising pullouts from Twitter and Musk's behavior</li> 
<li>Talk about pop culture offerings making the hosts happy this week</li> 
<li>Speculation about resolution of OpenAI leadership by 8pm deadline</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twitter.com/Devindra" target="_blank">Devindra Hardawar</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau">Paris Martineau</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/alex-lindsay">Alex Lindsay</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/anthonyha" target="_blank">Anthony Ha</a> 
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TWiT 954: Waiting For the Pope Smoke - OpenAI fires Altman, Apple RCS support, PlayStation Portal, The Abyss 4K

<ul> 
<li>Sam Altman returns as CEO after staff threatened mass resignation</li> 
<li>Microsoft's role and attempts to hire OpenAI staff</li> 
<li>Concerns over OpenAI's technology and capabilities</li> 
<li>Speculation over what caused the OpenAI board member revolt</li> 
<li>Impact and future of OpenAI as a non-profit and for-profit entity</li> 
<li>Musk sues Twitter shareholders, sued over ads next to hate speech</li> 
<li>Musk's behavior on Twitter concerning hate speech and anti-Semitism</li> 
<li>Truth Social finances and Trump lawsuit against media companies reporting losses</li> 
<li>EU regulations and lawsuits against tech giants over gatekeeping and anti-competitive behavior</li> 
<li>Tesla lawsuits over false Autopilot and battery claims</li> 
<li>Gay furry hackers steal Idaho National Lab nuclear secrets</li> 
<li>Levandosky launches Church of AI organization</li> 
<li>Video game addiction lawsuits</li> 
<li>Google to restrict ad blockers in Manifest V3 update</li> 
<li>Advertiser boycotts of Twitter</li> 
<li>Surveillance and the Hemisphere spying scheme</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="http://twitter.com/iainthomson" target="_blank">Iain Thomson</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/docrock" target="_blank">Doc Rock</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/padresj" target="_blank">Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/harrymccracken" target="_blank">Harry McCracken</a> 
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TWiT 955: Marmite or Nothing - Altman returns to OpenAI, X sues Media Matters, Church of AI, Manifest V3

Cybertruck is out, ChatGPT turns 1, Black Friday &amp; Cyber Monday, NameDrop<ul> 
<li>ChatGPT's 1st birthday and mainstream AI adoption</li> 
<li>Microsoft joins OpenAI's board as a non-voting observer</li> 
<li>Pika raises $55 million for AI video generation tool</li> 
<li>Amazon launches Q chatbot service for companies</li> 
<li>Concerns over Q hallucinating responses and leaking data</li> 
<li>Rethinking reactions to Tesla's Cybertruck design</li> 
<li>Police warn about issues with NameDrop social media app</li> 
<li>Why Apple adding RCS may not resolve green vs blue bubbles</li> 
<li>Apple dropping Goldman Sachs as Apple Card issuer</li> 
<li>Inside Spotify Wrapped's annual personalized listening stats</li> 
<li>Fears over Plex exposing users' viewing habits</li> 
<li>Black Friday online sales hit record $9.8 billion in US</li> 
<li>Cyber Monday sales beat estimates at $12.4 billion</li> 
<li>Extreme complexity in rebuilding an ultimate car pinball machine</li> 
<li>Kiss launches digital avatars for virtual concerts</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/richontech" target="_blank">Rich DeMuro</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/tim_stevens" target="_blank">Tim Stevens</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/alheeti_3" target="_blank">Abrar Al-Heeti</a> 
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TWiT 956: A Giant Rolling Brick - Cybertruck is out, ChatGPT turns 1, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, NameDrop

EU AI Act, 23andMe Hack, Woke Grok<ul> 
<li>Financial Difficulties and Layoffs at Twit</li> 
<li>AI's Potential and Misleading Demonstrations</li> 
<li>Regulating Artificial Intelligence and Self-Driving Vehicles</li> 
<li>Debate on AI Augmentation and Regulation</li> 
<li>Beeper's Impersonation of Apple's Server'</li> 
<li>Privacy Risks and Public Benefits</li> 
<li>Technology Misuse, Cameo Scandal, Criticism</li> 
<li>AI, Grock, and Free Money Impact</li> 
<li>The Potential of AI in Advertising</li> 
<li>Memories of 1000 Van Ness Theater</li> 
<li>Discussion on Podcasts and Potluck Etiquette</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guests: <a href="http://denisehowell.info/" target="_blank">Denise Howell</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/owenthomas" target="_blank">Owen Thomas</a>, and <a href="https://glennf.com/" target="_blank">Glenn Fleishman</a> 
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TWiT 957: Put It In a Red Envelope - EU AI Act, 23andMe Hack, Woke Grok

AI Math, Zuck's Lair, E3's Demise<ul> 
<li>The panel talks about pinball machines</li> 
<li>Mark Zuckerberg's underground lair</li> 
<li>Cox admits to invading your privacy</li> 
<li>Google Maps gets an update to stop authorities from accessing location history data</li> 
<li>Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data</li> 
<li>Epic Games wins it's lawsuit, Google ruled as an illegal monopoly</li> 
<li>Beeper Mini is back, but for how long?</li> 
<li>Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year</li> 
<li>Tesla recalls 2 million cars</li> 
<li>FCC denies Starlink of $885M subsidy</li> 
<li>Netflix finally releases viewership data</li> 
<li>E3 is over</li> 
<li>How do you wordle?</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/BriannaWu" target="_blank">Brianna Wu</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/NateLanxon" target="_blank">Nate Lanxon</a>, and <a href="https://cisoseries.com/" target="_blank">David Spark</a> 
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TWiT 958: Never Look a Gift Mouse in the Horse - AI Math, Zuck's Lair, E3's Demise

In this festive end-of-year episode, Leo gathers some of the veteran hosts of the TWiT network, dubbed "old farts," to reflect on the major tech stories and trends of 2023 while looking ahead to 2024. They debate AI and tech's impact on society, discuss the ups and downs of companies like Twitter, Apple, and SpaceX, reminisce about the early days of computing and the Internet, and more, all with good humor and insight gained from decades in tech. 
 
Topics Discussed:<ul> 
<li>The explosion of AI in 2023, from chatbots like ChatGPT to powerful new AI demonstrations. Debate on whether we're nearing AGI (artificial general intelligence) and the societal impacts.</li> 
<li>The rise and struggles of companies like Facebook/Meta, Netflix, Twitter, Alibaba. Patterns of tech success, failure, and Corey Doctorow's concept of "ensh*tification."</li> 
<li>Elon Musk: The good (SpaceX, Starlink), bad (Twitter), and unpredictable. Is he still an innovator or has wealth and power corrupted him?</li> 
<li>Open source, Linux, and big tech's relationship to open ecosystems. Concerns about commercialization diluting open ideals.</li> 
<li>Looking back on early tech days. How the history of tech contextualizes what's happening today. Nostalgia and optimism for the early Internet days.</li> 
<li>The revival of space exploration, privatized today by SpaceX and others. What can we expect as we (hopefully) return to the Moon in 2024?</li> 
<li>Chaos, unpredictability, and the feeling of societal flux as we head into 2024. An uncertain but interesting future awaits.</li></ul> 
 
Memorable Quotes:<ul> 
<li>"AI is only dangerous to humans if you give it physical agency in the real world. Combine AI with a robotic dog, and now you got something." - Leo</li> 
<li>"When are you getting your stupid thing that you wear that has the laser on your hand?" - Jeff to Leo</li> 
<li>"It's time to hand it over. We're effing up the world. We've done it for centuries. It's time to hand it over." - Jeff on tech leadership</li> 
<li>"So has anybody played with the Apple ones that have the weird eyeballs?" - Doc on Apple's augmented reality efforts</li> 
<li>"Chaos is a weird thing. You could have your faucet dripping slowly and almost all of the drips go down and land and that's it, but somehow about a yard off to the one side is a drip" - Steve on increasing chaos</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/doc-searls">Doc Searls</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/steve-gibson">Steve Gibson</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/rod-pyle">Rod Pyle</a> 
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TWiT 959: The Old Farts Gather - A Retrospective Journey through 2023 and Beyond

Looking back at some of This Week in Tech's best moments from 2023:<ul> 
<li>Rating Google's AI Music Tool MusicLM</li> 
<li>What is Plaguing Google?</li> 
<li>Xerox Alto: 50 Year Later</li> 
<li>Lessons Learned By the SVB Collapse</li> 
<li>Is Copyright Good For Authors?</li> 
<li>What's Your (Microsoft) Copilot?</li> 
<li>Goodbye, Computer Magazines</li> 
<li>UK Emergency Alert Test</li> 
<li>A Look At WiFi Pineapple and Flipper Zero</li> 
<li>Ten Years Since Snowden's Revelations Were Revealed</li> 
<li>The Seven Deadly Sins and Tech</li> 
<li>Blind: Anonymous Workplace Gossip</li> 
<li>Earthquake!</li> 
<li>Why Apple Ended Its CSAM-Scanning Tool</li> 
<li>Meta's Uncanny New AI Avatars</li> 
<li>MIke Elgan's Meta Ray-Ban Smartglasses</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
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TWiT 960: Best of 2023 - This Week in Tech's Best Moments in 2023

<ul> 
<li>CES preview</li> 
<li>The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI</li> 
<li>A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.</li> 
<li>Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX</li> 
<li>Microsoft's keyboards and mice will live on under a unique new partnership</li> 
<li>A physical keyboard for your iPhone</li> 
<li>RIP: Software design pioneer Niklaus Wirth</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://amywebb.io/" target="_blank">Amy Webb</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/film_girl" target="_blank">Christina Warren</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Devindra" target="_blank">Devindra Hardawar</a> 
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TWiT 961: A Nation of Nerds - CES Preview, NYT vs. OpenAI

Padre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery<ul> 
<li>The panel discusses what they saw at CES</li> 
<li>Padre shows off some toys from CES</li> 
<li>Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations'</li> 
<li>Mercedes-Benz's best-in-class voice assistant is getting an AI boost</li> 
<li>AI-Generated 'George Carlin' Comedy Blasted by Comedian's Daughter</li> 
<li>SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024</li> 
<li>Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams</li> 
<li>Microsoft's new battery is a test of AI-infused scientific discovery</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guests: <a href="https://twitter.com/padresj" target="_blank">Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/pierce" target="_blank">David Pierce</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/Daniel_Rubino" target="_blank">Daniel Rubino</a> 
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TWiT 962: CES Recap - Padre's CES Haul, Google Layoffs, AI Battery

Verizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack<ul> 
<li>The panel talks about the Apple Vision pro</li> 
<li>The Apple Google Duopoly</li> 
<li>Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement</li> 
<li>Javier Milei Special Address WITH AI</li> 
<li>Sam Altman says ChatGPT will evolve in "uncomfortable" ways</li> 
<li>Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs</li> 
<li>Origins and definition of "Ensh*ttification"</li> 
<li>Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely</li> 
<li>The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams</li> 
<li>Microsoft 'senior leadership' emails accessed by Russian SolarWinds hackers</li> 
<li>Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data</li> 
<li>Among Linguists, the Word of the Year Is More of a Vibe</li></ul> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guests: <a href="http://craphound.com/" target="_blank">Cory Doctorow</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/iainthomson" target="_blank">Iain Thomson</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/alex-lindsay">Alex Lindsay</a> 
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TWiT 963: Low-Key Clippy - Verizon Fees, AI Translations, Microsoft Hack

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TWiT 954: Waiting For the Pope Smoke - OpenAI fires Altman, Apple RCS support, PlayStation Portal, The Abyss 4K

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