TWiT 1093: California Sober

TWiT Shows This Week In Tech
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New episode of This Week in Tech: Leo Laporte, Harper Reed, and Alex Wilhelm dive into the week’s biggest tech stories.

Topics covered:
:china: China’s open-weight AI models from Moonshot AI and Alibaba challenging Silicon Valley
:classical_building: White House policy shifts tightening control over frontier AI model access
:glasses: Meta’s smartglasses push sparking privacy and ethical debates
:cloud: AWS billing glitch generating trillion-dollar customer invoices
:mobile_phone: European social media limits for teens, plus robot teachers in New York

#TWiT #Podcast #Tech

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Was great to see Alex again. I know his schedule can be a bit tight due to 3 young ones, but it would be nice if he could be on more.

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Regarding AI and “communist AI”, is that really worse then the neo-feudalist model of the frontier AI companies?

I would prefer local models over either of those.

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I enjoy these smaller panels.

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Yeah me too. I often think of reducing TWiT to three people. Good idea?

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I think that would be good, and easier to book!

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I think that really depends on the topics and the people. For example, on #1090 you had 4, and yet it kind of felt at times like 2 (because one was sick and one may have lacked opinions on some of the topics.) (We got feedback on it.)

I’d be more worried about the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” rule of content… it’s been the way it’s been for a VERY long time.

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