TWiT 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles - Which Religion Does AI Identify With?
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!
- Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter
- Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide
- The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
- Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica
- Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong
- Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI
- Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems
- Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement
- Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October
- Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
- Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards
- NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests;
- Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
- Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over
- Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites
- Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match
- Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day
- Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot
- The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
- Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
- FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twitter this week in tech. |
| 0:02.6 | Paris Martin is with us. |
| 0:04.1 | Ian Thompson. |
| 0:05.2 | And from the Wall Street Journal, Berber Jin, we're going to talk about Anthropic and Open AI. |
| 0:10.0 | All the chatter about their IPOs. |
| 0:12.6 | Anthropic says they figured out a way to keep AI from blackmailing you. |
| 0:17.7 | Just tell it it's bad. |
| 0:19.6 | And what religion is AI? Apparently, we know now. It's coming up next on Twitter. |
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| 1:43.3 | This is Twit. This week in Tech, episode 1883, recorded Sunday, May 10th, 2026. |
| 1:51.5 | A whole separate class of squiggles. |
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