TNW 365: Android XR Is Google's Spatial Computing OS - OpenAI Sora, Automattic, Image Playground

Tech News Weekly (Audio)

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins us this week! Did OpenAI's Sora video generation model train on gaming and streaming content? A judge ruled that Automattic is to stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org. And Image Playground, Genmoji, and more generative AI features now available within Apple Intelligence.

Amanda talks about how OpenAI's Sora video generation model is supposedly training on video games and streaming content.
Mikah shares how WP Engine won an injunction against Automattic, owner of WordPress, and that Automattic must stop blocking WP Engine's access to WordPress.org's resources.
Jason Howell stops by to share his time recently with Android XR, Google's new AI-powered OS that brings the augmented, virtual, and mixed reality experience to devices such as headsets and glasses.
And Image Playground and Genmoji arrives to Apple Intelligence, and Mikah demonstrates these new features, which are now available to users.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling

Guest: Jason Howell

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Amanda Silberling is here, and we kick things off by talking about how Open AI may have trained its video generation tool SORA on video games, with honestly some compelling evidence.
0:18.5	Then I have my story of the week. It's a follow-up on where
0:21.8	things stand on the WordPress versus WP Engine Drama. After that, Jason Howell stops by to give us
0:31.2	a whole bunch of interesting information about the brand new just announced Android XR and his time with the system.
0:42.3	Very, very cool as he was one of very few people to get to try this out before Google announced it.
0:49.3	Then I round things out by showing you where things stand with Apple Intelligence's latest features, image playground,
0:56.4	and gen mochi. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly.
1:02.6	Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twitter.
1:10.6	This is Tech News Weekly, episode 365, with Amanda Silberling and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, December 12th, 2024.
1:21.4	Android XR is Google's Spatial Computing OS.
1:26.4	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show wherever week we talk to and about the people
1:30.8	making and breaking that tech news.
1:33.2	I am your festive host, Micah Sargent, and I am pleased to say that today, on this Thursday,
1:43.1	December 12th, I am joined by the wonderful, the inimitable, Amanda
1:47.7	Silberling. Welcome back to the show, Amanda. Hello, I wish I had a fun hat, but you'll just
1:53.7	have to imagine that there's like a, my hat is so cool that it's invisible. It is the coolest hat
1:59.4	that you've ever seen. And unless you have the
2:01.4	special contact lenses that Amanda sent me in the mail, you can't see it. So I'm sorry to all of you.
2:07.1	But it was magnificent. I should have sent it to everyone. It was really selfish of me.
2:13.0	Well, we will, we will forgive you for your selfishness if you make up for it by telling us about your story of the week.
2:21.8	Yeah.
2:22.3	So my story of the week is a story from my colleague, Kyle Wiggers, who is an amazing AI writer,
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