TNW 427: 'We See Everything': Meta's AI Workers Speak - AI Glasses: Who's Watching?
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dan Moren of SixColors joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Apple announced a whole new slew of products throughout the week, including the new MacBook Neo! A look into how Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses collect data. And how Google's new proposed system for apps could change the App Store game.
- Dan and Mikah discuss the slew of new products Apple announced this week: the iPhone 17e, M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air, M5 MacBook Pro, and the new MacBook Neo.
- Mikah talks about Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses and how overseas workers are reviewing the data collected from the glasses, and how these workers are being exposed to deeply private video footage.
- And Leah Nylen, Antitrust Reporter for Bloomberg, joins the show to talk about Google's new system for apps on its Android phones to allow easier access for rivals as a result of the settlement between Google and Epic Games and fines in the EU as a result of the Digital Markets Act.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
Guest: Leah Nylen
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Dan Morin joins us this week. |
| 0:04.0 | We talk about all of the new Apple hardware that's been coming out all week. |
| 0:09.0 | Afterwards, I have a brief story about a really important investigation |
| 0:15.0 | regarding Meta's AI glasses and the humans who are viewing the content on them. Then Leah Nylon, antitrust |
| 0:24.5 | reporter of Bloomberg, stops by to tell us what's going on with the Google App Store and it changes |
| 0:30.6 | to Android. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:36.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:38.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:41.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:44.7 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 427, with Dan Morin and me, Micah Sargent, |
| 0:51.5 | recorded Thursday, March 5th, 2026. |
| 0:56.0 | We see everything. Meta's AI workers speak. |
| 0:58.0 | 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. |
| 1:05.0 | I am your host, Micah Sargent. |
| 1:08.0 | And this week, we are not joined by Abra al-Hiti who is in |
| 1:13.7 | Barthalona right now for MWC I believe that's where it is but we are joined |
| 1:19.8 | instead by the wonderful Six Colors East Bureau Chief it is Dan Moran |
| 1:27.1 | welcome to the show, Dan. |
| 1:28.3 | Hi, Micah. |
| 1:29.3 | It's always a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:31.3 | I am nowhere near as interesting a place as Barcelona. |
| 1:34.3 | And we're glad because that means you can be here with me, and I appreciate it. |
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