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Agility Robotics is building its first bipedal robot factory in Oregon, GE is working on AI-powered ultrasounds to combat pediatric and maternal mortality rates, and Microsoft’s Panos Panay leaves company after nearly 20 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm ... Show More

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Benevolent hackers clear stalking spyware from 75,000 phones, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise service encrypts corporate conversations, and Dolby Atmos will use your TV to expand living room speaker setups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Looking back at some of This Week in Tech's best moments from 2023: Rating Google's AI Music Tool MusicLM What is Plaguing Google? Xerox Alto: 50 Year Later Lessons Learned By the SVB Collapse Is Copyright Good For Authors? What's Your (Microsoft) Copilot? Goodbye, Computer Magaz ... Show More

Elon’s Twitter acquisition closes today, so he showed up at Twitter’s Headquarters… holding a kitchen sink (literally). Coca-Cola just unveiled its #1 priority for 2023: Perfect the can. And Facebook-parent Meta just lost $80B of value in 24 hours because Mark Zuckerberg is CEO, ... Show More

Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week; How to turn off Instagram’s political content filter; Robinhood’s new credit card goes after Apple Card Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Ming-Chi Kuo’s grand unified Apple rumor includes AR enabled contact lenses. Is the US about to retaliate in kind for the SolarWinds hack? Mobile World Congress is gonna go ahead and do it live! And in person. Why is Google making Google Pay worse? And do we need a new podcast wa ... Show More

Threads by Meta, TweetDeck returns, Causal AI, thumbs-up emoji lawsuit What to know about Threads. Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads. Elon Musk Is Making Mark Zuckerberg Seem Cool Again. The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long? Why We Don't Recommend ... Show More

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss AI image generators getting better, Apple WWDC 2023 rumors, and the other big stories in tech this week. Further reading: The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality Another hurdle for AI ... Show More

Undeterred by its many detractors, Meta is still trying to make the metaverse happen. This week, the company held its annual Connect developer conference at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to announce a new mixed reality head ... Show More

The UK CMA looks like it’s folding, so the Microsoft/Activision acquisition can go through now? YouTube unveils some cool AI tools. Amazon is adding ads to Prime Video and raising the price. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:Miro.com/podcastNutrisense.com ... Show More

Lots of news to cover today, including an update on Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, Meta is scaling back on some departments within the company, and Google's Russian subsidiary declares bankruptcy. Plus, learn how some engineers created a scientific breakthrough meant to make ... Show More