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Instagram Goes PG-13, ChatGPT Allows Erotica, and Netflix Grabs Podcasts

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, News, Technology, Tech News

4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott discuss the fallout from the Young Republicans' Telegram chat leak, Instagram’s new protections for teens, and OpenAI allowing "erotica" for adults.  Plus, Kara has thoughts about Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s call for National Guard troops in San Francisco, and Scott has a prediction about the future of the podcasting business. We're going on tour! Get tickets at pivottour.com Watch this episode on the ⁠⁠Pivot YouTube channel⁠⁠. Follow us on Instagram and Threads at ⁠⁠@pivotpodcastofficial⁠⁠. Follow us on Bluesky at ⁠⁠@pivotpod.bsky.social⁠⁠ Follow us on TikTok at ⁠⁠@pivotpodcast⁠⁠. Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Try Notion and Notion Agent for free at Notion.com slash box. Is peace finally within reach in the Middle East? No one had

0:50.4

had approached it this way, and I think that was a major, a major contributor.

0:56.5

I'm Preet Bharara, and this week, political advisor and podcast host, Dan Cynor,

1:00.9

joins me on my podcast, stay tuned with Preet, to discuss the new ceasefire in Gaza and what comes next for the war-torn region.

1:09.0

The episode is out now.

1:12.5

Search and follow. Stay tuned with Preet, wherever you get your podcasts. Google has been making gadgets for a really long time,

1:21.8

but there's something different that happened with this year. They're actually all pretty good

1:26.0

for a change. This week on the Vergecast,

1:28.3

we talk about what it means that Google now makes a bunch of phones, some headphones, a smartwatch,

1:33.9

and even a tablet that are all pretty good. And we ask an important and impossible question,

1:38.7

which one's the best one? All that, plus whether the smart home is ever actually going to work on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts.

1:48.0

Sam Altman's saying, we shouldn't be the morality, please.

1:51.4

No, no, actually, you should.

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