TNW 391: Meta's AI Therapists Under Scrutiny - Meta's AI Studio Fake 'Therapists'

Tech News Weekly (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Abrar Al-Heeti is joining Mikah Sargent this week! Abrar is excited about one of the new features Apple announced for iOS 26 that could be important for a rumored device next. Would you be willing to be matched with others based on your search history? Some of the new things discovered in the teardown of the Nintendo Switch 2. And Meta is in hot water again over AI chatbots posing as licensed therapists.

Abrar talks about the new Adaptive Power feature Apple unveiled at WWDC this past week and how this new feature could be necessary for the rumored iPhone 17 Air that Apple could release sometime next year.
Mikah shares about a new experimental platform called Browser Dating that matches users based on their previous internet search history.
Liz Chamberlain of iFixit joins the show to talk about the Nintendo Switch 2's teardown, the updated Joy-Con controllers, and how aspects of the console are much harder to repair than their predecessor.
And 404 Media's Sam Cole stops by to discuss Meta's AI Studio chatbots, which are posing as real therapists with fake licenses and credentials.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti

Guests: Liz Chamberlain and Sam Cole

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Abraar Al-Hiti is here.
0:03.2	We kick off the show by talking about how Apple might be working on a thinner iPhone,
0:07.6	and we discuss the battery life impacts there.
0:10.6	And afterwards, I talk about a dating site that wants to find your match
0:15.6	by letting you share your Internet search history.
0:19.8	Then Elizabeth Chamberlain, the director of sustainability
0:21.9	to iFixit, stops by to talk about the switch two and the repairability score it got. Spoiler,
0:28.6	it's not great before Sam Cole of 404 Media joins us to talk about meta's AI therapy chatbox
0:37.1	and how they're getting the company in trouble with
0:39.3	U.S. senators.
0:41.2	Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly.
0:46.3	Podcasts you love.
0:48.1	From people you trust.
0:50.6	This is Twitter.
0:54.3	This is Tech News Weekly, episode 391, with Abraar Alhiti and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, June 12th, 2025.
1:05.2	Meta's AI therapists under scrutiny.
1:09.1	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show wherever week we talk to and about the people
1:13.9	making and breaking that tech news.
1:16.1	I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined across this vast and ever-changing Internet
1:23.6	landscape by C-Nets-One-Brar-A-Brah Al-Hiti., Abraar. Thank you so much. Good to be here.
1:31.9	Thanks for having me. Yeah. Always a pleasure to get to chat with you. I feel like saying before the show,
1:37.2	it feels like it's been a long time. It has been to see you. Likewise. This feels like nature is
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