TNW 399: OpenAI Announces GPT-5 - Chat GPT-5 Has Arrived
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Abrar Al-Heeti from CNET joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Tesla has been found partially liable for a fatal crash in 2019. Project Ire from Microsoft can autonomously identify malware at scale. Age verification is slowly being rolled out across the internet. And OpenAI announced GPT-5!
- Abrar discusses Tesla's being found partially liable in a fatal 2019 crash and ordered to pay $243 million in damages. Tesla seeks to appeal the ruling.
- Mikah shares a new AI model from Microsoft called Project Ire that can analyze and classify malware in software.
- Age verification is slowly being rolled out to numerous websites that host adult material and harmful content. However, there are concerns with how this is being utilized, which raises privacy concerns for users.
- And Sabrina Ortiz of ZDNET joins the show to chat with Mikah about everything announced at OpenAI's unveiling of its latest AI model, GPT-5.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guest: Sabrina Ortiz
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Abrar Al-Hiti is here, and we talk about Tesla being held partially liable for a crash in 2019 involving autopilot. |
| 0:10.8 | Then Project Iyer, Microsoft's way of detecting malware using AI. |
| 0:18.4 | Before I talk about age verification across the internet, both in the US and |
| 0:24.6 | around the world. And then Sabrina Ortiz of ZDNet stops by to give us the lowdown on OpenAI's |
| 0:31.8 | new GPT5. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:38.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:40.5 | From people you trust. |
| 0:43.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:46.5 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 399, with Abraar Alhiti and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, August 7th, 2025. |
| 0:57.2 | OpenAI announces GPT5. |
| 1:01.5 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 1:05.8 | making and breaking that tech news. I am your host, Micah Sargent. And given that it is the first Thursday of the month, |
| 1:13.8 | wow, August is already here. We are joined by the wonderful Abraar Al-Hiti. Welcome back, Abra. |
| 1:21.4 | Thanks for having me. Wow, you have a great voice. I think everyone should sing my name whenever they |
| 1:25.2 | I have a habit of singing. |
| 1:29.8 | It must be with the microphone. |
| 1:31.3 | It's just... |
| 1:31.8 | Yes, it helps. |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.2 | It's necessary. |
| 1:34.4 | That an ASMR. |
| 1:36.1 | Well, it's good to see you. |
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