TNW 419: Utah Trusts AI to Renew Prescriptions - AI Prescribing Meds?
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Ward of The Rip Current joins Mikah Sargent on the show this week! Lego unveils its Smart Brick. Jacob kvetches about AI's overwhelming presence at CES. We get some on-site reporting from CES. And Utah becomes the first state to allow artificial intelligence to renew medical prescriptions.
- Mikah talks about Lego's new Smart Brick technology that allows you to interact and play with your Lego sets more directly.
- Jacob shares his thoughts about the overall theme of AI that has become front and center at this year's CES event.
- Stephen Robles of beard.fm joins the show live from CES to talk about what he saw at the event.
- And Ruth Reader of POLITICO stops by to talk about Utah being the first state to allow artificial intelligence to begin renewing medical prescriptions for patients.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward
Guests: Stephen Robles and Ruth Reader
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jake Ward is here. We kick off the show by talking about |
| 0:04.9 | LEGO's CES announcement. It's the Smart Brick. And then Jacob and I talk about our experiences |
| 0:12.1 | with CES, the trends we saw this year, and some of the complaints we have about those trends. |
| 0:18.2 | Afterward, we have Stephen Robles coming live from the CES show, Florida, |
| 0:22.9 | talk about what he saw while he was there. |
| 0:25.4 | And we round things out with Ruth, Reader of Politica, |
| 0:28.4 | who stops by to tell us about how AI is being used to renew prescription medications in Utah. |
| 0:35.2 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:40.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:41.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:44.4 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:48.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 419, with Jake Ward and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, January 8th, |
| 0:57.0 | 2026. |
| 0:58.0 | Utah trusts AI to renew prescriptions. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello and welcome back or for your first time to Tech News Weekly in the year |
| 1:08.0 | 2026. This is the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 1:12.4 | making and breaking the tech news. And I am excited to kick things off. I am Micah Sargent, |
| 1:18.3 | joined this week by Jake Ward. Welcome, Jake. Hello. Hi, Micah. Happy holidays. I have an opportunity. |
| 1:26.2 | Thank you. Thank you. And I haven't had an opportunity to thank you for hosting the show while I was out. I appreciate that. Big shoes. I've never seen your shoes in real life, but they were big shoes to fill. I really enjoyed that a lot, but it is a, it's no joke what you do. You do, it taught me the grace with which my goshosur pulls off his responsibilities |
| 1:45.0 | that's very kind of you to say uh you know a brar is also fantastic and so i was i was very excited |
| 1:51.1 | that the two of you got to be she made it very simple that's right no a good pairing appreciate you |
| 1:56.0 | all right so uh look c es is going on now. I'm very pleased to not be there. |
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