TWiT 1080: Destroy All Phonorecords - Musk v. Altman, Claude Opus 4.7, & Voyager 1
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 169 minutes
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Summary
As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos
- Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
- You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.
- Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
- AI anxiety is turning volatile
- Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
- Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
- Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul
- The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
- Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
- Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
- Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
- Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case
- Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
- Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
- Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
- What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?
- TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
- Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
- It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
- Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company
- Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Louis Maresca, Wesley Faulkner, and Glenn Fleishman
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twit this week in tech. |
| 0:02.0 | Glenn Fleischman is back. |
| 0:03.0 | Wesley Faulkner's here, Lou Moreska, |
| 0:05.0 | and we have a lot to talk about the new Claude Opus 4.7 model is out. |
| 0:11.0 | We'll talk about security flaws that AI can and cannot find, |
| 0:16.0 | why it's time to ban the sale of precise geolocation, |
| 0:20.0 | and we'll watch some robots fall down. |
| 0:22.8 | It's coming up next on Twit. |
| 0:27.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:28.9 | From people you trust. |
| 0:31.5 | This is Twit. |
| 0:40.8 | This is Twit. This Week in Tech. Episode 180, recorded Sunday, April 19th, 2026. |
| 0:46.0 | Destroy all phono records. |
| 0:49.4 | It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. |
| 0:56.2 | I love this panel, but i especially love seeing glen flechman back so nice to see glen you're feeling fit and fine and |
| 1:04.7 | all that i feel fabulous i recommend open heart surgery for everybody um if if you need it if you need it let me |
| 1:11.7 | point that out that's the do not show us your scar though do you have a |
| 1:14.5 | promise no it's actually looks awesome I've had I've had high compliments for |
| 1:18.0 | medical professionals about oh that's good are now I feel great I would never |
| 1:21.9 | have known that I would never know that I had this done five months ago it's |
| 1:25.2 | bizarre I feel fantastic and you feel better don't you oh yeah incredibly It's like all the things that were bothering me for five or six years are gone. Nice. It went. Here's my little joke, which is everything went according to a textbook, and if they would just take the textbook out of me now, I would feel true. That's my little bit. I hope they didn't leave anything else behind. Just a healthy heart. Not so far. They keep checking. Nothing's in there. So great to see you. Of course, Glenn writes now on a regular basis for Six Colors.com. We're really pleased to see that. And his new book is now on Kickstarter. Yes, you knew he had, you know, after all the conversations we've had about flongs you knew he had to write a flong |
| 2:02.6 | book yeah it's called in a punning fashion flong time no see forgotten stories of printing and |
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