TWiT 956: A Giant Rolling Brick - Cybertruck is out, ChatGPT turns 1, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, NameDrop

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Cybertruck is out, ChatGPT turns 1, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, NameDrop

ChatGPT's 1st birthday and mainstream AI adoption
Microsoft joins OpenAI's board as a non-voting observer
Pika raises $55 million for AI video generation tool
Amazon launches Q chatbot service for companies
Concerns over Q hallucinating responses and leaking data
Rethinking reactions to Tesla's Cybertruck design
Police warn about issues with NameDrop social media app
Why Apple adding RCS may not resolve green vs blue bubbles
Apple dropping Goldman Sachs as Apple Card issuer
Inside Spotify Wrapped's annual personalized listening stats
Fears over Plex exposing users' viewing habits
Black Friday online sales hit record $9.8 billion in US
Cyber Monday sales beat estimates at $12.4 billion
Extreme complexity in rebuilding an ultimate car pinball machine
Kiss launches digital avatars for virtual concerts

Host: Jason Howell

Guests: Rich DeMuro, Tim Stevens, and Abrar Al-Heeti

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0:00.0	Coming up next on Twitter this week in tech I'm Jason Howell filling in for Leo
0:03.8	Leport who will return next week so it's just one last time without Leo at the
0:08.3	helm we've got what actually is a pretty cool C net reunion of sorts Tim Stevens rich demuro a brahahiti and I should
0:16.8	mention Benito behind the board also from C net we've got a lot of really cool stuff
0:20.9	to talk about chat gpPTs one year birthday and my have we come
0:25.8	so far in a single year when it comes to generative AI.
0:29.4	Apple's name drop feature and why it's not quite as controversial as people online seem to be making it out to be.
0:36.0	Black Friday, Cyber Monday, record sales, where's the recession that everybody has been talking about.
0:43.6	Tim Stevens breaks apart pinball machines
0:45.6	and it kind of gives me a little bit of a panic attack
0:48.2	and Kiss says farewell by saying hello
0:51.6	to virtual avatars. That and so much more coming up next on this
0:55.2	week in tech.
0:57.2	Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit.
1:07.0	This is Twit.
1:10.0	This is Twit. This week in Tech, episode 956 recorded Sunday December 3rd
1:16.0	2023 a giant rolling brick
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