TNW 380: 23andMe's Bankruptcy Fallout - EV Vehicles, Age Verification, MCP
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Some alternatives to Teslas. A law in Utah makes app stores rather than companies responsible for age verification. 23andMe files for bankruptcy. And OpenAI is following in the footsteps of its rival, Anthropic.
- Emily Forlini of PCMag joins Mikah Sargent this week! Emily talks about some alternatives to Teslas that cover various price ranges.
- Mikah talks about a new law passed in Utah that pushes the responsibility of age verification from tech companies to app stores.
- Geoffrey Fowler of The Washington Post joins Mikah to talk about 23andMe filing for bankruptcy, why you should swiftly delete your DNA information from the company, and shares how you can delete that information.
- And OpenAI is following Anthropic in adopting the company's standard for connecting AI models to data.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini
Guest: Geoffrey Fowler
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I'm Micah Sargent, and we are joined by Emily Forlini. |
| 0:04.3 | We talk about what you can do if you want to replace your Tesla with another EV. |
| 0:10.5 | Afterwards, we talk about Utah's new app store age verification law and the implications therein. |
| 0:18.1 | Before we speak to Jeffrey Fowler of the Washington Post about the 23 |
| 0:23.6 | and me bankruptcy and how you should be hopping in to delete your data. And then I round things out |
| 0:30.0 | with a couple of open AI stories and the agreement of AI companies on a specific protocol. |
| 0:37.9 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:42.7 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:44.5 | From people you trust. |
| 0:47.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:50.6 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 380, with Emily Forlini and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, March 27th, 2025, 23 and me's bankruptcy fallout. |
| 1:05.5 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show wherever week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. I am one of your hosts, Micah Sargent. And today on this, the fourth Thursday of the month, we are joined by the Emily Forlini. Welcome back, Emily. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello, happy to be here. What is it, fourth Thursday of the month, you said? |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, the fourth Thursday of the month. In the year of our Lord. In the year of our Lord, 2025. |
| 1:36.9 | Right, right. Happy to be here. What an honor. Glad to have you here with us this week. And as those of you who have tuned in before know, but those of you who might be new to the show don't, |
| 1:50.0 | this is the part of the show where we share our stories of the week. |
| 1:55.0 | There are stories that we find interesting, fascinating, wonderful, and amazing, |
| 1:59.0 | or perhaps stories we've written ourselves, which is more often |
| 2:02.0 | my guest host rather than it is me. But occasionally, it's also both fascinating, amazing, |
| 2:09.6 | wonderful, and interesting, as well as being written by my host. And that's the case this |
| 2:14.4 | week. Emily, tell us about your story. You're so sweet. So yeah, I wrote a story this week that really took off a little more than I was |
| 2:21.2 | expecting. And it's called basically how to ditch your Tesla and get a different EV. |
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