TNW 407: Google & Amazon Reveal New Hardware - Google & Amazon's Battle for Your Home
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Abrar Al-Heeti joins Tech News Weekly this week! OpenAI launches Sora 2. AI is powering more fraudulent ads. Amazon updates its lineup of products. And Google incorporates Gemini into its smart home devices.
- OpenAI launches Sora 2, its latest video generator app. Sora 2 seeks to rival platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
- DoubleVerify's DV Fraud Lab has detected a rise in fraudulent apps available for download, with AI powering these apps to hijack mobile devices.
- Amazon held its Fall Hardware Event this past week, unveiling the latest Echo devices, Ring security cameras, and its next-gen Alexa+ chatbot being available in these devices.
- And Florence Ion joins the show to discuss Google's revamp of its smart home devices, introducing Gemini for Google Home and the new Google Home Speaker, which is slated to launch in Spring 2026.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
Guest: Florence Ion
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, we kick off the show by talking about OpenAI's new app for AI generated social media. |
| 0:07.0 | Afterwards, I talk about how AI may be at the heart of a surge in app fraud. |
| 0:13.8 | Then, Abraar Al-Hiti sticks around to talk about how Amazon has a whole new host of devices. |
| 0:20.4 | Then Florence Ion joins us to give us the lowdown |
| 0:23.5 | on Google's new smart home hardware. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:31.3 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twitter. |
| 0:39.3 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 407, with Abrar Al-Hiti and me, Micah Sargent. |
| 0:45.8 | Recorded Thursday, October 2nd, 2025. |
| 0:49.4 | Google and Amazon reveal new hardware. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:00.0 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined today by the wonderful Abraar al-Hiti. |
| 1:07.0 | Welcome back to the show Abra. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you so much for having me. Always thrilled to be here. Always a pleasure to have you join us for people who are tuning in for the first time, |
| 1:16.6 | or maybe you've been here before, and you just need a little reminder like I do. What happens on the show? |
| 1:20.6 | I don't know. No. But we start out the show by talking about our stories of the week. |
| 1:24.6 | These are the stories that we find interesting |
| 1:29.3 | that we think you should know about. |
| 1:32.3 | And so let's kick things off, Abra, with your story of the week. |
| 1:36.3 | Yes, I wanted to talk about the hottest new social media app |
| 1:40.3 | that frankly terrifies me. |
| 1:42.3 | So this week, OpenAI released SORA 2, which is its latest |
| 1:46.7 | video generation model. It's supposed to be more physically accurate and realistic than the |
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