TNW 408: OpenAI DevDay: ChatGPT OS? - Meet Casio's Smart AI-Powered Companion
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Silberling joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly this week! Casio has a new smart toy companion powered by AI. The UK is still seeking to develop backdoor encryption for Apple users. ChatGPT is looking to act more like an operating system. And how the 'Buy Now, Pay Later' model has built a $120 billion industry.
- Amanda has her hands on a new AI-powered smart companion from Casio! She and Mikah talk about the device, how it works, and the possible data security and privacy concerns.
- Mikah talks about the UK's continued push to create backdoor encryption for Apple users in the country.
- Sabrina Ortiz of ZDNet joins the show to discuss OpenAI's Dev Day and the company's ambitions to make OpenAI function like an OS with the launch of the Apps SDK.
- Finally, Mikah shares an article from The New York Times Magazine about the 'Buy Now, Pay Later' market, which allows buyers to obtain their items easily and traps users in a swarm of debt.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guest: Sabrina Ortiz
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Amanda Silverling is here, and so is her AI pet. |
| 0:04.8 | Then I briefly talk about how the UK is still trying to get into iPhones through |
| 0:09.6 | backdoor methods. Afterwards, Sabrina Ortiz of ZDNet stops by to tell us what was announced |
| 0:16.0 | at OpenAI's Dev Day, and I round things out with a cautionary tale about buy now, pay, later services. |
| 0:22.3 | All that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:27.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:29.2 | From people you trust. |
| 0:31.7 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:35.4 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 408, with Amanda Silberling and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, October 9th, 2025, OpenAI Dev Day, ChatGPTOS? |
| 0:49.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 0:56.1 | We are here on Thursday, October 9th. |
| 0:59.8 | And I am joined this week by the wonderful, the amazing, the ever so cool. |
| 1:05.5 | Amanda Silverling. |
| 1:06.4 | Hello, Amanda. |
| 1:07.6 | Wow, I've never been called Cool in an intro, so I'm very honored. Well, it's true, |
| 1:13.8 | and it's real, and it's happening, and I am so glad to see you. It has been a while, so it's good |
| 1:19.4 | to get to chat with you once again. For people who are tuning in for the first time, or perhaps |
| 1:25.0 | you've been here before, and you just need a little reminder. We kick off the show by talking about our stories of the week. |
| 1:30.6 | These are the stories that we think are interesting and would love for you to know about them. |
| 1:36.4 | This week, Amanda hit me with a last minute curveball that I am very excited about. |
| 1:46.8 | Amanda, do you want to do a little intro before I ask you a billion questions? Yes. So originally we were going to talk about the SORA AI social app |
| 1:56.3 | from OpenAI, which is making a bunch of deep fakes of historical figures and also Sam Altman. |
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