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Artemis II Beams 4K Video from Moon to Earth with Laser Communications, Meta AI Rolls Out Parental Supervision for Teen Chat Topics, and Apple Rushes Out Update to Block FBI Access to 'Deleted' Signal Messages.Link to Show NotesSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Ho ... Show More

SpaceX plans to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, Meta wants employee workday activity to train AI models, Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model fixes 271 vulnerabilities in latest Firefox release.Show NotesSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Hosted on Ac ... Show More

Amazon Commits $5 Billion More to Anthropic, Securing $100 Billion AWS Cloud Deal, UK Regulator Ofcom Launches Investigation into Telegram Over Child Sexual Abuse Allegations, and FAA Mandates Investigation After Blue Origin New Glenn Launch Failure.Link to Show Notes.Support thi ... Show More

Google’s strategy of keeping it in the courts is already going to plan. New AI agents from Microsoft. New Open Source models from IBM. Perplexity is looking to raise again. How far behind Apple thinks it is in AI. And what it’s like to use your AirPods as hearing aids. Sponsors: ... Show More

Google announces new Nest cams that are more useful without a subscription; Apple combats Child Sexual Abuse Material; American Airlines gives passengers free in-flight TikTok; Citizen introduces a new protection subscription; Vudu replaces FandangoNow and a website that ports Si ... Show More

Sonos beats Google in trade court. E3 is going remote again this year. Mozilla is the latest company to suffer crypto backlash. Are foldable laptops the future? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions, this week with a profile of the programmer behind Wordle. Sponsors: ... Show More

Kara and Scott discuss Nvidia's latest blockbuster earnings, the DOJ's proposal that Google sell its Chrome browser, and Comcast's plan to spin off its cable networks into a new company. Plus, the latest additions to the Trump administration, and Elon Musk and Vivek Rameswamy lau ... Show More

Apple pays a fine cause Siri was listening in on what you said. Strava does a tie-in with Apple Fitness+. Net Neutrality is dead again, and it looks like for good this time. The nuclear winter in the VC space, CES is coming for us all, and a Weekend Longreads Suggestion. Links: ... Show More

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Alex Heath, and Lauren Feiner discuss a federal judge ruling that Google violated US antitrust law, X suing a group of major advertisers over an “illegal boycott”, and the rest of this week's wild tech news. Further reading: Judge rules that G ... Show More

We promise, this episode is only a little bit about header bidding. Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Alex Heath to talk about some big news in tech regulation: Google lost its ad-tech monopoly trial, which could reshape both Google and the internet altogether. And that’s ... Show More

Plus - Nvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controls; Google is reportedly showing ads in chats with some third-party AI chatbots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Starlink is in the White House, Siri is still bad, Pebble is back, up is down, everything is chaos. In this episode, Nilay and David start the show by running through some big gadget news, from a Siri-related shakeup at Apple to the new Google Pixel 9A. After that, The Verge's La ... Show More