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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Apple is reportedly spending millions on developing its own generative AI system. Dan Moren talks about what we can expect to get announced at the upcoming Apple event on September 12th. And is the idea behind Rotten Tomatoes rotten? Mikah talks about how PR firms are gaming Rotten Tomatoes' review scores through movie "critics."

Wayne Ma of The Information joins the show to talk with Mikah Sargent about Apple quietly developing its own large language model for the past few years, aiming to use AI to understand user intent rather than for entertainment.
Mikah talks about the EU naming six big tech companies as gatekeepers under its new Digital Markets Act and details the criteria and implications of this new act, including potential steep fines for non-compliance.
Dan Moren of Six Colors stops by to preview Apple's upcoming September 12th event, where new iPhones are expected to be revealed with USB-C ports and other potential devices that may be announced.
Finally, Mikah discusses an article from Vulture on how PR firms are gaming Rotten Tomatoes' review scores through obscure critics many may have never heard of.

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Wayne Ma and Dan Moren

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, we kick things off with an interview from the
0:04.4	information Wayne Ma about how Apple has suddenly started spending a whole lot more money
0:10.8	on conversational AI. But how the company has actually been working on this for some time.
0:15.9	Then I have my first story of the week all about the EU naming its gatekeepers and boy,
0:23.3	the Digital Markets Act. It's a tough act. Then we talk to Dan Moore in
0:28.4	of six colors about Apple's upcoming September iPhone event, what we can expect,
0:33.7	what we can maybe expect, and what we probably shouldn't expect. Before we round things out
0:38.7	with a fascinating article from Vulture, all about Rotten Tomatoes and how the system is maybe
0:48.6	hacked from time to time to give favored reviews. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly.
0:59.2	This is Tech News Weekly, Episode 302, recorded Thursday, September 7th, 2023.
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2:09.5	the show where every week we or in this case I talk to and about the people making and breaking
2:14.4	the tech news. I am your one host this week, Micah Sargent. Jason Howell will be back, but until
2:21.4	then you are with me. And I am very excited to kick off this show this week with an interview
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