TNW 434: Is This Framework's Linux MacBook? - Framework's Take on the Pro Laptop
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Amanda Silberling joins Mikah Sargent on this episode of Tech News Weekly! Amanda is impressed with ChatGPT's Images 2.0 model. Some companies and tech giants are pushing back on stricter emissions reporting rules. Unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic's new Mythos AI model. And Framework announces its Laptop 13 Pro.
- Amanda talks about ChatGPT's Images 2.0 model and how it's a huge improvement in generating text compared to other image-generating AI models.
- Mikah shares how more than 60 companies, including Apple & Amazon, are pushing back on the possible tightening of emissions reporting standards as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a global standard-setter, looks to tamp down on greenwashing risks.
- Mikah also talks about how unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic's Mythos Model, setting up the possibility of dangerous cyberattacks down the road, as the AI model is more powerful than other models easily accessible to the public.
- And Sean Hollister of The Verge joins the show again to talk about Framework's new Laptop 13 Pro that Framework CEO Nirav Patel says is "the MacBook Pro for Linux users."
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guest: Sean Hollister
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Amanda Silberling, subbing in for Emily Forlini this week. |
| 0:06.0 | We talk about ChatGPT's new image generation model. |
| 0:11.0 | We also talk about how big tech is pushing back on stricter emissions rules. |
| 0:17.0 | I talk a little bit about the Mythos AI model from Anthropic and unauthorized access before |
| 0:22.8 | Sean Hollister rounds out the show with his initial thoughts on Frameworks' new Laptop 13 Pro. |
| 0:32.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:34.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:36.9 | This is Twitter. This is Twitter. |
| 0:40.7 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 434, with Amanda Silberling and me, Micah Sargent, |
| 0:46.7 | recorded Thursday, April 23rd, 26. |
| 0:50.1 | Is this Framework's Linux MacBook? |
| 0:53.4 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people |
| 0:57.5 | making and breaking the tech news. |
| 0:59.6 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined this week. |
| 1:06.0 | Normally, we would have Emily Forlini with us, but as I mentioned before, Emily is on maternity leave, |
| 1:13.5 | and therefore, we are joined today by the wonderful Amanda Silberling. |
| 1:18.1 | How you doing, Amanda? |
| 1:18.8 | Hello, it is me. |
| 1:20.0 | I can pretend to be Emily if that is easier on the listeners, but that might, I don't know, |
| 1:26.0 | I can only be me. |
| 1:28.4 | And you are a great you. |
| 1:31.4 | This, of course, is the show. |
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