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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

Anthropic has built an AI model so sharp it's being withheld from the public, sparking debate over who gets access to world-changing tech and who's left behind. Hear how this "too dangerous" AI could tip the balance for the world's most powerful players. This episode unpacks the fresh moral minefields created when cutting-edge tech collides with politics, security, and human lives.

Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing
Sam Altman Fire Bombing Response
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
Samsung flags eightfold jump in quarterly profit as AI chip demand pumps prices
SpaceX Posted Nearly $5 Billion Loss Last Year from AI Spending
Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency's budget by $700 million
CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads
GTA 6 Developer Rockstar Reportedly Hacked, Data Being Ransomed
FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages - 9to5Mac
ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
Helium Is Hard to Replace
John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement
France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk
The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Settlement
My Quest to Solve Bitcoin's Great Mystery
Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%
'Abhorrent': the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock, Jason Hiner, and Mike Elgan

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0:00.0	It's time for Twitter this week in tech. Mike Elgin is here. Doc Rock, Jason Heiner. We'll talk about
0:05.8	the AI Anthropicus said was too dangerous to release. AI's been very, very good for Samsung,
0:14.7	but not so good for Sisa. And France is ditching windows.
0:22.0	Breaking news.
0:23.2	All that and more.
0:23.9	Coming up on Twit.
0:28.0	Podcasts you love.
0:29.9	From people you trust.
0:32.5	This is Twit.
0:39.6	This is Twit. This is Twit. This Week in Tech, episode 179, recorded Sunday, April 12th, 2026.
0:47.5	Fans, only fans.
0:51.1	It's time for Twit this week in Tech. The show we cover the week's tech news.
0:55.5	Hello, everybody.
0:57.3	Good to see you and really great to see our panel this week.
1:01.0	Mike Elgin's visiting us from Tuscany.
1:04.5	You dog.
1:05.9	Oh, it's beautiful.
1:07.2	It's beautiful here, Leo.
1:09.4	I wish you were here.
1:14.3	Yeah, I wish I were here there too it's been pouring rain here and i love uh tuscany uh you know who else is in a paradisical place on the other side of
1:20.9	the earth mr doc rock from ohahu on alulu everyone good to see you guys here uh actually i am just happy that it's pretending to stop raining, but then they told me today
1:31.8	it's only going to stop raining for like a couple hours and then back at it.
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