TWiT 1043: It All Starts With Baby Shark - Tesla's $240 Million Bill for FSD Crash

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

A jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash
Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021
Apple's New 'Answers' Team Eyes ChatGPT-Like Product in AI Push
Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'
Alphabet beats earnings expectations, raises spending forecast
Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
Amazon to Pay New York Times $20 Million a Year in AI Deal
A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.
Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its 'personality' — and what makes it 'evil'
AI Capex is Eating the Economy
Will data centers crash the economy?
What content strategy looks like in the age of AI
Inside the LG G5's shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout
Senate confirms Sean Cairncross to be national cyber director under Trump
How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry
Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything
Lina Kahn Takes a Victory Lap for Figma IPO

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Guests: Richard Campbell, Brian McCullough, and Mike Elgan

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Mike Elgin's here, Brian McCullough and Richard Campbell.
0:05.3	We're going to have a lot of fun talking about AI. A big jury award for a victim of a Tesla
0:12.5	crash, more than a $240 million. Apple results, Google results, and Australia banning YouTube for people under 16.
0:23.9	How's that going to go?
0:24.8	All of that and more coming up next on Twitter.
0:29.6	Podcasts you love.
0:31.4	From people you trust.
0:33.9	This is Twitter.
0:40.4	This is Twit. This is Twit.
0:42.3	This Week in Tech, episode 143, recorded Sunday, August 3rd, 2025.
0:49.1	It all starts with Baby Shark.
0:52.3	It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the latest tech news with a rotating
0:58.2	panel of fine, industrious, smart, and connected journalists starting with Mike Elgin in
1:05.7	Oaxaca.
1:07.2	Two out of three ain't bad.
1:08.9	Which one aren't you?
1:10.4	I didn't add good looking.
1:12.1	So we'll add you, you put you in the good looking box.
1:15.4	His newsletters at Machinessociety.a.i.
1:18.3	He does podcasts.
1:20.0	He does everything.
1:21.2	I do dishes.
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