This Week in Tech (Audio)

An astronomical amount of money is being poured into AI and data centers as tech giants fight for dominance, but is this fueling the next big tech bubble or just the price of staying in the game? Get the panel's opinions on wild IPO valuations, global power grabs, Build 2026, NVIDIA GTC Taipei, and even successful YouTuber movies!

SpaceX IPO to Be Largest Ever at $135 Share Price

Utah residents sue officials over Kevin O'Leary data center plan

When AI builds itself

NVIDIA announces RTX Spark as 'the most efficient PC chip ever built'

Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards

Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

What to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2026: iOS 27, New Siri and AI

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models

Trump: U.S. stake in AI giants "could be a beautiful thing"

Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers

Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data

YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar

YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Joey de Villa, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Explore everything from explosive technology for space to electric technology for the road. Leo, Molly, Gary, and Sam have deep discussions on Magnifica Humanitas takeaways, Wikipedia drama, Peter Thiel's mvoe to Argentina, and more!

US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network

The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida

What Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI

Google's search overhaul has social media users baiting the 'AI Overview' to prove a point

Apple to Overhaul iOS 27 Siri, AI Features: Here's a First Peek

Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later, they revoked it.

Wikipedia editor is threatening to go on strike

Ferrari reveals its first EV, with design help from Jony Ive

In Argentina, U.S. Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Finds An Escape

Robotaxis Are Spreading Across the U.S.—and So Is the Backlash

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Gary Rivlin, Sam Abuelsamid, and Molly White

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Google is rewriting the rules of search, CBS News Radio just died after 99 years, and billionaires now own the newsrooms. This episode dives into what happens when technology giants tighten their grip on how we get information.

Google's new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet

Hands-On With All of Google's New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch show

U.S. Invests $2 Billion and Takes Stake in Quantum Firms

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman

GM Driver Data Privacy Lawsuit: California Fines GM $12.75 Million

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

'Creepy' Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn't Actually Work, FTC Says

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Larry Magid, Marshall Kirkpatrick, and Jacob Ward

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Is the era of American tech dominance ending? Get an inside look at how China's pragmatic approach to AI, robotics, and hardware is shifting the global balance, and why the US might need a new playbook to keep up.

Trump and the CEOs go to China

NVIDIA CEO joins Trump in China despite 'awkward' politics

US clears H200 chip sales to 10 China firms as Nvidia CEO looks for breakthrough

Empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhood, circle cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers

The Class of 2026 is cooked

Chinese AI groups pull ahead of US rivals in video generation race

Google Weighs Using SpaceX to Launch Orbital Data Centers

What smart people are saying about OpenAI's new $10 billion company to help businesses deploy AI

Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup

Your Mattress Got Worse on Purpose

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Amy Webb

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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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