TNW 351: Amazon To Launch AI Alexa This Year - Brilliant, XPS 13 Copilot+, AI Safety Bill in California
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The smart home company Brilliant is back in business. A review on Dell's take on a Copilot+ laptop. Amazon is officially launching an AI version of its Alexa services. And the California State Assembly passes a sweeping AI safety bill.
- Brilliant, a smart home company, has been bought by private investors and plans to release the next generation of its smart home control panel later this year.
- Devindra Hardawar of Engadget reviewed the Dell XPS 13 Copilot+ laptop and recommends whether it is worth purchasing.
- Caroline O'Donovan of the Washington Post discusses Amazon officially releasing an AI-powered version of Alexa in October.
- And Mikah discusses the California State Assembly's passing of a sweeping AI safety bill and what the bill aims to do within California.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guests: Devindra Hardawar and Caroline O'Donovan
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I'm hosting this show alone this week. |
| 0:04.4 | We kick things off with a story of the week. |
| 0:06.5 | It's all about brilliant, the smart home manufacturer that makes little control panels for your home. |
| 0:13.0 | Jennifer Patterson Tui has a story over on the verge, |
| 0:16.0 | talking about how it has found a buyer after almost going the way of the dodo. |
| 0:20.0 | I take a moment to talk about what companies are worth investing in when it comes to |
| 0:25.8 | equipping your smart home and those that you might want to you know just |
| 0:30.3 | just let Breeze past. Afterward and Gad Gadgett's own, Devindra Hardewar joins us to give us his take on the Dell XPS 13 |
| 0:38.1 | co-pilot plus PC. |
| 0:40.5 | He talks about how the device is pretty performance, but there are some considerations you |
| 0:45.1 | should make before you buy an arm-based machine. |
| 0:48.6 | Then the Washington Post's Carolina Donovan joins us to talk about Amazon's plans for its virtual assistant. |
| 0:55.6 | Apparently, the company will be launching a new AI-powered A-L-E-X-A in October, but it will come with a subscription. |
| 1:04.4 | Then we round things out with my final story of the week |
| 1:07.6 | about SB 1047, the nation's first AI legislation, at least at this level. Some safety concerns about AI |
| 1:17.8 | and making sure that in one part the AI has a kill switch built in it's all of that plus so much more coming |
| 1:26.3 | up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:29.3 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 1:33.4 | This is Twit. |
| 1:36.2 | This is Twit. |
| 1:46.2 | This is Tech News Weekly with me, Micah Sergeant, episode episode 351 recorded Thursday August 29th 2024 Amazon to launch AI a laix a this year. |
| 2:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. I am Micah Sergeant and this week we are kicking things off with a story of the week that for me is |
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