Boops, Toots and Squeals
from POP | TECH | JAM
On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. wade into the river of recent news about artificial intelligence — while stopping to pour one out for the soon-to-be-discontinued AOL dial-up modem service. Hear it all (and more) with one click of the Play button for PTJ 384! • Alexa Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. How Smart Is It Now? (The New York Times) • OpenAI Brings Back Fan-Favorite GPT-4o After a Massive User Revolt (Gizmodo) • GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. (Gary Marcus Substack) • Apple App Intents Voice Control Feature for Siri, Apps; iOS 26 Release Timing (Bloomberg) • Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice (TechCrunch) • Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age (The New York Times) • Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats (Wired) • Reddit will block the Internet Archive (The Verge) • End of an era: AOL to discontinue its dial-up internet service after 30 years (The Guardian)
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