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-Lobbying by tech industry groups, the Science Based Targets initiative decided to not recommend a protocol that would have made it more difficult for tech companies to use clean energy investments to offset fossil fuel pollution. -To date, Apple has not permitted vibe coding tools on the App Store because they would violate its policies. -Reuters reported that Meta's workers have begun circulating flyers at multiple US offices to protest the company's installation of tracking software on their work computers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The lawsuit says that on May 31, 2025, "ChatGPT actively coached a 19-year old to mix Kratom and Xanax." Despite presenting itself as an expert in dosing and interactions, and despite acknowledging his state of being high, ChatGPT did not tell him that this recommended combination would likely kill him.” -Santa Clara County has become the latest entity to sue Meta over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, alleging that the company has profited from "a vast ecosystem of scam ads" that have defrauded senior citizens and other vulnerable people. -Google is in negotiations with SpaceX to secure the company's help in its own nascent effort to put orbital data centers in space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NBC has greenlit a primetime game show based on Wordle, set to be produced by Jimmy Fallon's Electric Hot Dog, Universal Television Alternative Studio and The New York Times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI has just launched Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative that's clearly the company's competitor to Anthropic's Project Glasswing. - Digg CEO Kevin Rose said, "the internet has more noise than ever, and the people who can sort signal from it have never been more valuable. Digg's job is to find that signal and bring it to you." -GameStop may take the offer directly to eBay's shareholders or replace eBay's board with one favorable to its offer via proxy fight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Boox announces Tappy, a wireless page-turning remote; Sony wants TSMC's help to make image sensors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-TikTok announced that an ad-free option will roll out to UK users over the coming months, available to anyone with an account who is 18 or older. The monthly subscription will cost £4 ($5.40) per month. -The big change is that Samsung is adding support for Google Gemini, which has several important implications. By combining Samsung's existing on-device object recognition with Google's cloud-based models, the total number of identifiable foods is increasing from just over 100 items to more than 2,000. -Lime, which is officially known as Neutron Holdings, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, after teasing ambitions of going public back in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Samsung says its Galaxy Watch can predict fainting with 'high accuracy' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-ShinyHunters, the extortion group that infiltrated cloud-based educational tech provider Instructure, claims to have stolen data from 8,809 schools around the world. -Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 by $50 to $500 in the US as it faces higher memory costs and US tariffs. -According to an Axios report, rather than asking users to swipe right or left on a profile to confirm their interest or disinterest in a potential match, the dating app is replacing it with something else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google is continuing to revamp its smart home app and the latest change includes an update to the camera experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The most common type of fainting called vasovagal syncope is normally not dangerous in itself, but it can cause sudden falls that results in severe secondary injuries like concussions. -Snap's $400 million deal with Perplexity to put the AI search engine directly in Snapchat is dead -The company behind the long-running space sim Eve Online has entered into a partnership with Google in which the search giant will take a minority stake. In exchange, Google's DeepMind will train its AI technology on the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The Information reported that Anthropic has agreed to pay a staggering $200 billion to Google over the next five years. -Irish regulators have opened two investigations into Meta over whether the company is sufficiently complying with a European law requiring platforms to offer users alternatives to targeted algorithmic feeds. -Pennsylvania is suing AI startup Character.AI for offering chatbots that pretend to be licensed doctors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Sony will soon settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit for $7.8 million Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The New York Times reports that the White House may create a new working group to oversee AI development. -Smartphone bans in the classroom might not be the panacea that governments and school administrations want them to be. -Colin Angle, the guy who co-founded iRobot and helped put robot vacuums in millions of homes, just unveiled his new venture called Familiar Machines & Magic and it's making robots for companionship, and not for sweeping floors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. -Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots in order to "address critical challenges" in "high-value labor markets." -On Friday, Reuters reported that AI-generated acting and writing won't be eligible for Academy Awards. The new rules from the Academy ​of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take effect beginning with next year's presentation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Google has begun rolling out an update that gives its chatbot the ability to generate files directly from the prompt bar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple will reportedly introduce new AI editing tools that will let users extend the background of photos, enhance image quality and reframe images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

They are codenamed "Jinju" and could retail for somewhere between $380 and $500. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Google has signed a deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." -Snapchat rolled out AI Sponsored Snaps, a "new way for brands to show up in Chat through AI agents." -Most of these scams started on Facebook, with WhatsApp and Instagram in "a distant second and third.” A lawsuit filed against Meta, which owns all three platforms, last week claimed that it misled users about scam ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The flights are part of a 10-day campaign in NYC before Joby launches commercial flights later this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The IAM union has accused Apple of unlawfully discriminating against the unionized employees of the company’s Towson, Maryland retail store. -A new feature called "Ask YouTube" will let you pose complex questions and receive "comprehensive results that include video and text, then ask follow ups to dive deeper." -OpenAI is opening up its partnership with Microsoft in the latest amendment to the major multi-year collaboration between the two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

But the company has yet to announce a concrete plan on how it will replace Hardware 3 cars' computers and cameras. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-DeepSeek has released its latest AI models, the V4 Pro and Flash versions, a bit over a year after it went viral and became the top rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US. -Anthropic can now link up with your accounts on AllTrails, Audible, Booking.com, Instacart, Intuit Credit Karma, Intuit TurboTax, Resy, Spotify, StubHub, Taskrabbit, Thumbtack, TripAdvisor, Uber, Uber Eats and Viator. -A hairdryer was allegedly used to rig Polymarket bets on the weather at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new feature is similar to Bluesky's and Threads' custom feeds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A report in Reuters alleged that the keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks of Meta's workforce are to be captured for the purposes of training AI — something the company's communications department was happy to confirm as accurate. -Prediction market Kalshi has taken action against three political candidates, alleging that each was engaged with insider trading of information about their campaigns. -Tesla still doesn’t have a solid pathway for how to give Hardware 3 cars Full Self-Driving capabilities, based on what Elon Musk said during the company’s latest earnings call. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

California's AG released a legal filing containing details of its accusation against the retailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Anthropic is investigating potential "unauthorized access" to its Claude Mythos model that has been touted for its ability to find cybersecurity flaws, the company told Bloomberg. -The nonprofit group Consumer Federation of America has filed a proposed class-action suit against Meta for "failing to protect users" from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram. -Monterey Park's city council has moved to ban construction of any data centers within its borders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

That works out to about 75,000 AI-generated songs per day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The devices would help ICE agents identify "illegal aliens" from a distance by capturing video and comparing it to biometric data like facial recognition and walking gait. -Amazon announced that it will invest $5 billion in the AI company, along with as much as $20 billion in additional payments if certain milestones are met. -Ternus has been focused on product design since joining Apple in 2001. He became VP of hardware engineering in 2013, and later transitioned to a senior executive role in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Analysts predict dark times for the PC industry, but sales were up slightly in Q1 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-In case you haven't gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, the company shared a 1,000-word X post this weekend covering its main points. Here's the link to the story. -Despite the months-long feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon, Axios reported that the NSA is using the AI company's new Mythos Preview. -More than a hundred humanoid robots stepped up to the start line of Beijing's humanoid robot half-marathon with first place going to Honor, which finished the race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Developers get a first look at OpenAI's future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Casely has reannounced a recall of its Power Pods 5,000mAh MagSafe E33A charger after dozens of people were injured and one even killed by the defective devices. -In order to allow third-party online search engines to be competitive with Google, the EC has recommended that Google permit those services to access its treasure trove of search engine data. -Perplexity's 'Personal Computer' is a suite of computer use agents that can work with your files, apps, connectors and the web to complete complex and "even continuous workflows." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new partnership with Bookshop.org lets you purchase physical books from indie booksellers from within the Spotify app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A group of researchers from across the US and the UK have conducted a study on what AI does to our brains and the results are, in a word, grim. -Earlier this year it was revealed that Apple and Google were offering "nudify" apps on their stores despite having clear policies barring such content. Nearly three months later, such apps are not only still available, but being actively promoted on the iOS App Store and Google Play. -Anthropic has started rolling out identity verification on Claude “for a few use cases.” The company didn’t list out those use cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This could make it easy for these people to identify strangers in public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The NAACP is suing xAI and a subsidiary called MZX Tech for allegedly operating unpermitted methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center in South Memphis. -The FCC has announced that Netgear has been given conditional approval that effectively exempts it from a previous ban on foreign-made networking routers -Amazon announced it is merging with satellite internet provider Globalstar Inc. to bolster Leo, its Starlink rival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Apple reportedly testing out four different styles for its smart glasses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Dozens of civil rights organizations have written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to warn of the dangers in bringing facial recognition technology to the company's smart glasses. -A charity organization that focuses on preventing online harm, recently published a study that showed 61 percent of those between 12 and 15 who previously had access to affected social media platforms still have one or more active accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-The feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI is getting even more contentious as the two sides get ready for trial later this month. -The Federal Aviation Administration is targeting gamers in its most recent job advertisement for air traffic controllers. The administration's annual hiring window opens at 12AM ET on April 17, and considering the ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers. -Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a certain Redditor in its crosshairs and it's now strong-arming the social media platform to reveal who they are with a grand jury subpoena, according to a report from The Intercept. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company says it's because of high energy costs and regulatory issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI has closed a yawning gap in its ChatGPT subscription pricing with a new $100 per month Pro plan that slots between the $20 per month Plus plan and $200 per month Pro plan. -The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which leads the union the Towson workers had joined, released a statement about the closure. "Apple’s claim that the collective bargaining agreement prevents relocation is simply false and raises serious concerns that this closure is a cynical attempt to bust the union," -Because they said it couldn't be done, a developer was able to get Mac OS X 10.0 to run on a 2006 Nintendo Wii. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It promises superior color reproduction and brightness compared to RGB Mini LED rivals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-OpenAI is putting the brakes on Stargate UK, according to Bloomberg. That’s the company’s AI infrastructure project with NVIDIA that’s meant to help the UK build out its sovereign computing capabilities. -Following the icy reception to Llama 4, Meta is releasing the first in a new family of AI systems built by its recently formed Superintelligence team. The company is kicking off its new Muse era with Spark, a lightweight model geared toward consumer use. -Greece will ban children under the age 15 from using social media starting next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The long-awaited device is supposed to arrive later this year or early 2027. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Anthropic has announced a new initiative called Project Glasswing to help address those concerns by working "to secure the world’s most critical software" against AI-powered attacks. -Binge leverages Apple's Live Activities feature to warn viewers about jump scares in horror movies. This seems to work rather simply. Users open the app when starting a movie and Apple devices will display warnings on the lock screen ahead of frightening scenes. -Sony just announced a truly strange initiative called The Playerbase. This is a program to scan people's likenesses and pop them in PlayStation games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Italian Netflix customers could receive a lump sum refund and an immediate reduction in monthly subscription costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices