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Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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“They should have just called it Strawberry. At least that’s delicious.”

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0:00.0	Kevin, did you see that all seven independent board members of 23 and me have resigned?
0:07.0	No.
0:08.0	They've stepped down and they're not saying a lot about it, but I have a theory as what's happened.
0:12.0	What happened? I think they found
0:13.5	out they're all related to each other and it just would not make sense for them to
0:18.7	all serve on the same board knowing you know that they have some sort of close ties.
0:23.2	Wow. Yeah.
0:24.2	Now actually there's also some talk out there that apparently they didn't like the way
0:27.4	that the company was going and apparently they had a very bad
0:30.7	a spat that now needs to be on way out but at the end of the day you have to wonder
0:34.8	are these people secretly related? And that's why I won't do a 23 and me. My ancestry?
0:39.8	That's not my business, Kevin. You know what they're calling the company now that everyone on the board is resigned?
0:44.8	What's that? Me?
0:46.8	I'm Kevin Ruiz, I'm a tech columnist at the New York Times.
0:55.0	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer, and this is hard for
0:58.0	this week, it's time for a strawberry harvest.
1:00.0	We'll tell you how Open AI's latest model could accelerate the timeline for
1:03.7	building super intelligence. Then why Meta is making teenagers
1:07.4	Instagram accounts private by default. And finally, the Times Karen Wise
1:11.7	joins us to tell us why Amazon is forcing everyone back into the office five days a week.
1:16.6	Can you imagine working that hard?
1:18.4	I work seven days a week, Casey.
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