Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee

• Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases
• VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web
• Perplexity AI's new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages
• Who's having kids?
• The panel discusses Ticketmaster
• T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge
• Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.
• Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack
• 'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?
• Inside the scramble to 'prebunk' election misinformation before it takes hold
• TikTok Pins Its Hopes on Trump to Avoid Ban
• How a Self-Published Book, 'The Shadow Work Journal,' Became a Best Seller
• Twitch streamers host a fundraiser for Palestinians.
• The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent
• Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI's Sora
• North Korea says it will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows strong retaliation
• Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified
• Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Nicholas De Leon, and Emily Dreibelbis

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Sky's voice, Copilot+ Surface devices, Car Thing's discontinuation

• OpenAI didn't copy Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT, records show
• China's latest answer to OpenAI is 'Chat Xi PT'
• Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
• Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
• Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
• Rabbit Holed
• Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs
• A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decision
• Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand
• Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
• Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold
• Kabosu, Shiba Inu dog who inspired 'Doge' meme, dies at 18
• Bitcoin pizza day
• C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Christina Warren, Wesley Faulkner, and Alex Wilhelm

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OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign

• GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)
• It's Time to Believe the AI Hype
• The panel discusses their experiences with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude
• OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT
• OpenAI Superalignment team is gone
• 2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds
• Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way
• French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,' critics warn
• Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments
• Vermont's data privacy law sparks state lawmaker alliance against tech lobbyists
• How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal
• Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it
• Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ben Parr, Dan Patterson, and Iain Thomson

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