TNW 437: What To Expect at Google I/O - The Preamble to Google I/O 2026
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Ward joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly! More insights into the Musk vs. OpenAI trial. Everything unveiled at The Android Show: Google I/O Edition 2026. And the Canvas cyberattack.
- Jacob has been covering the Musk vs. OpenAI trial since he was last on the show. He talks about the trial and some of the more interesting things that have occurred during the trial.
- Jason Howell stops by to talk about everything that was unveiled at The Android Show: Google I/O Edition, a lead-up to the big Google I/O event that is taking place on May 19th.
- And Mikah talks about the Canvas cyberattack that occurred on May 7th and how the company paid the ransom that the attackers were demanding from the organization.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward
Guest: Jason Howell
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Jake Ward is here. We talk about the ongoing Altman v. Musk case. |
| 0:06.4 | Jason Howell stops by to give us the lowdown on what Google has already announced and will announce at Google I.O. |
| 0:12.5 | Before I round things out, talking about Canvas being hacked and what to expect after the company paid the ransom. |
| 0:24.6 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:29.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:31.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:33.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:37.6 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 437, with Jake Ward and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, May 14th, 2026. |
| 0:47.7 | What to Expect at Google I.O. |
| 0:51.4 | 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. |
| 0:58.2 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and this week I am joined by someone who's making and breaking tech news. |
| 1:05.3 | It's Jake Ward. |
| 1:06.5 | Hello, Jake. |
| 1:07.2 | Hello, what's up, Micah? |
| 1:07.9 | I hope I'm not making it, but I do try to break it. If I make news, you should have me on right away. I'll call you immediately. Yeah, please. Okay, something's happened and you've got to know about it. Oh, my God. He's got to fight with Elon Musk. That's crazy. Yes. So that's actually a great segue into the first half of the show for people who are tuning in for the first time. |
| 1:30.3 | We like to kick off the show with our stories of the week. |
| 1:32.6 | These are the stories that we think are interesting and wants to share with all of you. |
| 1:37.4 | And Jake, you have been covering and attending the ongoing court case. |
| 1:43.4 | I was hoping you could start if people didn't get a chance to check out our last episode together. |
| 1:49.9 | And if they haven't been up on the news, what's going on in your neck of the woods? |
| 1:54.3 | Yeah, they might as just a little funny local matter. |
| 1:59.6 | So Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, the president of Open |
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