TNW 361: Tech's Future in the Upcoming Administration - Robotaxis, Autonomous Driving, ChatGPT Search

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Emily Forlini is filling in for Mikah Sargent this week! Lyft is entering the robotaxi space as it partners with a robotaxi company. Some of the latest self-driving tech is making its way into vehicles. Is ChatGPT's search feature a worthy rival to Google Search? And what does the feature hold for technology as the US enters a new administration in the coming months?

Abrar Al-Heeti talks about autonomous vehicles as Lyft partners with robotaxi companies to explore deploying autonomous vehicles within its network and how a company called Zoox seeks to deploy robotaxis in San Francisco and Las Vegas in the coming weeks.
Emily Forlini continues the autonomous vehicle discussions about new self-driving systems being utilized in GM and Ford vehicles.
Lance Ulanoff of TechRadar stops by to talk about his experience using ChatGPT Search and how it can rival the dominant Google search engine.
And Dan Patterson from Blackbird AI chats with Emily about how the upcoming Trump administration could shape the tech industry's future.

Hosts: Emily Forlini and Abrar Al-Heeti

Guests: Lance Ulanoff and Dan Patterson

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I'm Emily Forlini. I'm filling in for Micah Sargent this week.
0:05.4	First, I'll be joined by Abraar Alhidi from CNET to talk about robotaxies and autonomous driving tech across the country.
0:12.6	Then we'll talk about my story, which is my experience driving the latest autonomous driving tech from Ford and GM.
0:19.7	Then we'll move to talking to Lance Yulinoff at Tech Tech Radar about ChatGPT's push to take on Google
0:25.3	and draw some of that traffic with its new search experience.
0:28.8	And finally, we'll round it out with Dan Patterson for a discussion about what the Trump
0:33.2	election outcome means for the future of the tech industry.
0:36.9	All that and more coming up today on
0:38.9	Tech News Weekly. Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twitter. This is Tech News Weekly with
0:52.1	Abrar, Alhidi, and me, Emily Forlini.
0:55.1	Episode 361, recorded on Thursday, November 7th, 2024.
0:59.9	Tech's future in the upcoming administration.
1:03.4	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, this show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news.
1:10.6	I'm Emily Forlini. You
1:11.9	might recognize me from other Twitter shows or my work from PCMag. I'm filling in today for
1:16.5	Micah while he's on vacation and I am joined by the illustrious Abrar al-a-hidi from C-Net. Hi, Abraar.
1:22.5	Hello, wow, I love that, illustrious. I love that. I'm going to require that now every time I'm
1:27.1	introduced. You absolutely should. I'm going to require that now every time I'm introduced.
1:28.1	You absolutely should. So you and I were talking. We kind of cooked up a little autonomous driving
1:35.2	segment today. So we'll kick it off with your stories about robotaxies. So tell us what you're
1:41.2	reading about that. Yeah, I'm so excited about the segment because I'm obsessed with autonomous driving tech and robo taxis.
1:48.1	And there's been a good chunk of news lately about this.
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