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Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August
Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
UN tech chief pleads for global AI regulatory cooperation
Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok
Google AI Mode has 100M users, 2.5 Pro & Deep Search rolls out
FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report
Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trial
Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day
A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups
People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online
Intel is laying off tens of thousands and cancelling factories
AMD CEO Sees Chips From TSMC's US Plant Costing 5%-20% More
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban
FCC approves Skydance-Paramount merger
Gwyneth Paltrow is the new face of a kiss-cam tech scandal
Julian LeFay, 'Father of The Elder Scrolls,' Has Died Aged 59
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

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Guests: Molly White, Janko Roettgers, and Jacob Ward

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Oh, we have a great panel. Molly White is here from Web 3 is going just great.
0:07.5	Yanko Wreckers from Lopass.C.C. And Jacob Ward, author of The Loop, we're going to talk about chat GPT5.
0:15.5	Is it all that? The new administration's AI action plan.
0:23.6	Is it good or bad for AI?
0:27.6	And TikTok, it looks like it's in trouble again.
0:28.7	All that more.
0:30.3	Coming up next on Twit.
0:34.7	Podcasts you love.
0:36.3	From people you trust. is twit this is twit this week at tech episode
0:47.8	one thousand forty two recorded sunday july 27th 2025 well playedomer. It's time for Twit. This week at tech, the show we
0:58.6	cover the week's tech news. I think I'm going through puberty. My voice seems to be changing.
1:05.5	We got a great panel for you. I am excited. We always get interesting people. It's one show we do with a rotating panel,
1:12.7	which gives me a chance to talk to people. You know, I like to talk to like Molly White.
1:18.1	Famous for Web 3 is going great and Mollywhite.net and her fabulous newsletter citation needed.
1:26.3	It's so nice to see you, Molly. Thanks for having me back.
1:29.6	She's a very active Wikipedia editor and we will have questions. Like why, no, I'm not going to
1:36.8	do that to you. Why is Ozzy on the front page but not Hulk? That's the question everyone's
1:43.3	asking.
1:50.1	I don't know anyway we'll talk about that later also with his Jacob Ward he's the author of the loop we interviewed him on intelligent machines and I said this guy's smart I
1:53.6	like this guy you might have seen him on network television he now runs his own as
1:58.8	does Molly his own newsletter, The Rip Current on
2:01.8	Substack. Good to see you, Jacob. What's up, man? Thank you so much. Really fun to be here. I love that. You've got a giant plasma ball behind you. Is that? Yeah, I've been playing with these backgrounds. I don't know. I love that. Yeah, some of them, some of them sillier than others. this one is sort of like, I just do it by mood.
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