Welcome to the Virgast, the flagship podcast of Things, Cod Name Strawberry.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently in the Miami International Airport. I just spent the weekend touring

colleges with my nephew and suddenly I'm like college is awesome. I could go back to

college. I don't think I'd do very well. I don't think I would get in anywhere. I think my

test course would be awful if you're like hey how do you do calculus?

I don't know I have nothing for you, but suddenly college seems pretty appealing so who knows

Maybe this will be the end of my Virchcast career and I'll just go back to school or something.

But anyway, that is not what we're here to talk about.

Today, we are here to talk about two things.

We're doing a little bit of a catch-up on some kind of ongoing news happening in the tech industry.

First, we're going to talk about Open AI, which has been doing a bunch of sort of odd new work

with different kinds of models and a new thing that they call a reasoning model,

oh one, some strange corporate changes, lots just going on at Open AI.

So I figured it's been a while since Kylie Robeson came on the show and

told us what's going on. So Kylie is gonna come on the show and told us what's going on. So Kylie is going on the show and tell us what's going on.

Then we're going to talk about a bunch of ongoing legal and regulatory things.

We have the Tik-Tok ban or not ban ongoing. We have a bunch of questions about the

Google Ad Tech trial. We have whatever that Trump crypto thing was from a week or so

ago. So we're going to catch up on all of that too. All of that is coming

up in just a sec, plus a really fun hotline question that made me feel a lot of

feelings about my own life as these are wont to do. But first, legitimately as of right this second,

I just got the notification that my plane is boarding. So, time to fly home. We'll be right back.

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