Aug 10th 2025
This Week in Tech 1044
Elephants on the Moon
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Leo Laporte
Apple and the AI Race
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- GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
- Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
- Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
- Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company
- Trump’s Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
- Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac
- Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper
- Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas
- Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain
- Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
- Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift
- Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?
- Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer
- San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024
- Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
- Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
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Links
- GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
- Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
- Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company - 9to5Mac
- Trump’s Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
- Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac
- Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas
- Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain
- Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
- Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift
- Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?
- Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer | TechCrunch
- San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024
- Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
- Dial-up Internet to be discontinued