TikTok’s Spying Scandal + ChatGPT Puts Google on Notice + Phone Jail

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The New York Times

Technology

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Calls to ban TikTok or force its sell-off from its parent company ByteDance are gaining momentum, especially after reports of ByteDance’s surveillance of several U.S. journalists. And could Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI mark the end of Google’s search monopoly? Plus: New Year's resolutions, including locking up your phone.

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0:00.0	Casey, Happy New Year.
0:03.8	It's so gonna be back in the studio.
0:05.1	How are you?
0:05.9	I am great and I am extremely excited to be back making hard for it.
0:10.4	How was your break?
0:11.4	It was a lot of fun.
0:14.1	One of my favorite things was getting a DM from a high school student who said that after
0:16.8	listening to us, he had used Chatchee PT to finish his assignments before finals.
0:20.7	Amazing.
0:21.7	So, changing lives.
0:22.7	Changing lives, one episode at a time.
0:24.7	How is your holiday?
0:25.7	It was good.
0:26.7	I caught up on my classical Latin studies.
0:31.4	Watch some criterion film collection.
0:33.7	I just did a lot of very productive work.
0:35.3	No, I watched movies and ate cookies and fixed my mom's router as a good tech columnist
0:41.6	son should do.
0:42.6	Did you really have to fix the router?
0:44.0	Yeah, I did.
0:45.0	It was like, you know, she's got nominally high speed internet, but it's like it basically
0:49.9	dial up in there.
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