The weirdest tech we saw at CES 2025

The US Attorneys General of 44 jurisdictions have signed a letter addressed to the Chief Executive Officers of multiple AI companies, urging them to protect children "from exploitation by predatory artificial intelligence products." In other news, Elon Musk's artificial intellige ... Show More

xAI made the older Grok model available for all, while Elon Musk said the upcoming Grok 3 will follow suit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Apple is going after another one of its previous employees for allegedly sharing trade secrets with a new employer. Apple's lawsuit listed Chen Shi, a former employee who worked on the Apple Watch team, along with Oppo, as defendants, claiming they "conspired to steal Apple’s tra ... Show More

RealSense is building vision tech that helps machines like robots and drones navigate and respond to a 3D world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Once the creatures of science fiction, robots with human-like bodies and artificial-intelligence brains are getting jobs at warehouses and factories stacking, sorting and lifting. WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims explains what it’ll take to get these bots from warehouses to ho ... Show More

The startup has commissioned a demonstration unit of its organic flow battery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Plus: The Elon Musk-Donald Trump feud reignites over Republicans’ tax-and-spending bill. And robots are about to outnumber humans in Amazon warehouses. Katie Deighton hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many factory owners invested heavily in automation as the best way to meet customer demand. But now, factories are adding fewer new robots as production slows and more human workers take on manufacturing jobs. WSJ reporter Bob Tita and host Zoe Thoma ... Show More

Timestamps:0:00 let's get weird0:17 Mirumi and wacky robots2:09 Stretchable, rollable, suckable displays3:26 Truck + copter, other wacky cars5:26 QUICK BITS INTRO5:36 Controllers / auto-keyboard6:56 Phone-like devices8:01 Solar freakin' fabrics8:30 Kirin Electric Salt Spoon News ... Show More

Tech entrepreneur Amjad Masad joins Tucker for the deepest and most interesting explanation of AI you’ll ever see.  (00:00) Artificial Intelligence(10:00) Bitcoin(22:30) The Extropians Cult(31:15) Transhumanism(42:52) Are Machines Capable of Thinking?(47:38) The Difference Betwee ... Show More

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says we’re in the era of “sovereign AI.” We explain what that means and what it tells us about Nvidia’s future, with WSJ Heard on the Street columnist Dan Gallagher. Plus, the next generation of robots may not be humanoid, but rather, inspired by animals s ... Show More

Kara and Scott discuss the latest from the campaign trail: VP Kamala Harris’s potential Joe Rogan appearance, former President Trump’s musical rally, and Elon Musk’s $75 million donation to his pro-Trump Super PAC. Plus, Elon’s big Cybercab reveal, Big Tech's nuclear energy buy-i ... Show More

Every time users talk to AI chatbots, their queries go to data centers, where stacks of computers do rapid, complex calculations in order to respond. This process requires significant amounts of electricity and water, and experts worry about the environmental cost of this rapidly ... Show More