TWiT 955: Marmite or Nothing - Altman returns to OpenAI, X sues Media Matters, Church of AI, Manifest V3

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Sam Altman returns as CEO after staff threatened mass resignation
Microsoft's role and attempts to hire OpenAI staff
Concerns over OpenAI's technology and capabilities
Speculation over what caused the OpenAI board member revolt
Impact and future of OpenAI as a non-profit and for-profit entity
Musk sues Twitter shareholders, sued over ads next to hate speech
Musk's behavior on Twitter concerning hate speech and anti-Semitism
Truth Social finances and Trump lawsuit against media companies reporting losses
EU regulations and lawsuits against tech giants over gatekeeping and anti-competitive behavior
Tesla lawsuits over false Autopilot and battery claims
Gay furry hackers steal Idaho National Lab nuclear secrets
Levandosky launches Church of AI organization
Video game addiction lawsuits
Google to restrict ad blockers in Manifest V3 update
Advertiser boycotts of Twitter
Surveillance and the Hemisphere spying scheme

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Guests: Doc Rock, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Harry McCracken

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's twit we have a international panel with Father Robert Balister in the
0:05.8	Vatican City. We have Doc Rock in Hawaii and here in the studio Harry McCracken and myself
0:11.2	Ian Thompson all going through the week's tech news and
0:14.2	you've got choices from open AI how could we not considering the week it's been
0:19.3	Google's manifest V3 plans which could disable your ad blocker and possibly the weirdest case we've
0:25.0	had to discuss here the Church of AI you can find out more shortly.
0:29.3	Podcasts you love from people you trust.
0:35.0	This is Twit.
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0:50.0	This is Twit The Week in Tech, episode 955, recorded on Sunday, November 26, 2023. Marmite or nothing.
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