TWiT 1069: In My Head I Have 3 Buckets - Moltbook Becomes a Surreal AI Agent Social Network
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 168 minutes
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Summary
What happens when AI bots get their own social network, Silicon Valley execs cozy up to power, and Apple takes a cut from creators? This week's panel calls out the bold, bizarre, and often problematic ways tech's biggest players are reshaping everything from AI assistants to your everyday privacy.
- There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird
- Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
- Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
- Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say
- Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
- Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners
- SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
- Elon Musk reportedly wants a June SpaceX IPO to align with his birthday, the planets
- Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of decline
- Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon
- Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines
- What We Learned From Meta, Microsoft and Tesla
- Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November
- Apple CEO Tim Cook 'heartbroken' after repeated ICE killings in Minneapolis
- A rival smart glasses company is suing Meta over its Ray-Ban products
- TikTok, YouTube, and Meta are headed to court for a landmark trial over social media addiction
- The 'Social Media Addiction' Narrative May Be More Harmful Than Social Media Itself
- TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection — here's what it means
- A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
- Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
- Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US
- Groundhogs are bad at predicting weather, but they're valuable animal engineers\
- Satellites encased in wood are in the works
- Belkin reminds users that its Wemo smart home products are shutting down this week
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Gary Rivlin, Devindra Hardawar, and Victoria Song
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twit this week in tech. Gary Rivlin is here, author of AI Valley, Victoria's Song from The Verge, DeVindra Hardewar from Engadget. |
| 0:08.9 | Lots to talk about, including the new social network for AI bots. Yes, it's getting a little bit weird. |
| 0:15.8 | SpaceX wants to put a million satellites into orbit. Will the FCC let them and shame on Tim Cook? |
| 0:23.8 | All that and more. |
| 0:24.6 | Coming up next on Twitter. |
| 0:29.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:30.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:33.4 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:40.1 | This is Twit. This is Twit. |
| 0:41.7 | This Week at Tech, episode 1069, recorded Sunday, February 1st, 2026. |
| 0:49.4 | In my head, I have three buckets. |
| 0:52.8 | It's time for Twit this week in Tech, the show we cover the week's tech news with a panel |
| 0:59.3 | of brilliant experts joining me right now. |
| 1:01.2 | Gary Rivlin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, his latest AI Valley, Microsoft Google, |
| 1:06.2 | and the trillion dollar race to cash in on artificial intelligence. |
| 1:10.2 | Hi, Gary. |
| 1:14.6 | Hey, great to be here. You published this book when? Last March, almost the year. Things have changed a little. |
| 1:18.6 | Actually, it was such a verb because I sent it to the publisher the final, final, final. |
| 1:24.6 | I think like three days later, Deep Sea came out. Oh, crap. Change things of it. Oh, crap. Oh, well, AI. Okay. It's, I ran around every copy just kind of like, you know, added my little addendum, you know. It's always been the, yeah, right, handwritten in. It's always been the issue, of course, with technology books as they age, but nothing ages faster than AI now. |
| 1:45.1 | This stuff is changing daily. |
| 1:47.3 | That's Devendra Hardawar, who also covers these topics and many more as senior editor and gadget. |
| 1:52.2 | Hey, Devendra. |
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