TWiT 1044: Elephants on the Moon - Apple and the AI Race
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Leo Laporte
4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
- GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
- Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
- Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain
- Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company
- Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions
- Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac
- Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper
- Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas
- Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain
- Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
- Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift
- Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?
- Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer
- San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024
- Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
- Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Owen Thomas, Doc Rock, and Wesley Faulkner
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Owen Thomas joins us from the San Francisco Business Times, |
| 0:06.0 | Doc Rock from YouTube of YouTube fame, and Wes Faulkner, who's got a big announcement about a new |
| 0:11.5 | business he's starting. We'll talk about the latest chat, GPT5, winner or loser? Seems like the jury's |
| 0:19.0 | still out on that one. Tell you who is a loser, probably. |
| 0:22.5 | Perplexity. |
| 0:23.1 | At least it seems unlikely Apple will buy them. |
| 0:25.8 | And what Apple cleverly did to ensure no tariffs on their chips. |
| 0:32.3 | All that more. |
| 0:32.9 | Coming up next on this week in tech. |
| 0:37.7 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:39.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:42.1 | This is Twit. |
| 0:48.6 | This is Twit. |
| 0:50.5 | This Week in Tech, episode 144, recorded recorded Sunday August 10th 2025 elephants on the moon |
| 1:00.1 | it's time for twit this week in tech the show we cover the week's tech news with the smartest darn |
| 1:05.9 | journalists and tech gurus and just plain old enthusiasts in the biz. |
| 1:12.9 | Join me right now. |
| 1:13.9 | Owen Thomas, he is the managing editor at the San Francisco Business Times longtime friend. |
| 1:19.8 | Hello, Owen. |
| 1:21.0 | Hello, Leo. |
| 1:21.7 | I prefer to think of myself as a passion advocate. |
| 1:24.5 | An advocate for passion. |
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