• Google is building a fart button into Android
• The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all
• Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength
• Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia
• Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico
• Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
• Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok
• A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.
• FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data
• The FCC just doled out big privacy fines. It could soon lose that power.
• Supreme Court Rejects Musk's 'Twitter Sitter' Appeal in SEC Win
• Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion
• Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
• Musk Wins China's Backing for Tesla's Driver-Assistance Service
• Elizabeth Spiers: That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk's Flaws
• Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles and public policy team
• Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction
• Bruce Perens proposes draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
• Remember that Sora balloon video?
• From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
• Related: Yann LeCun & AI as 4-year-old
• Is history repeating itself? I have concerns.
• The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• 'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
• TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google
• How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge
• The Chilling of TikTok
• FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching
• Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage
• Paris' nuts
• Rabbit R1
• brilliant.xyz
• More wearable AI: IYO One
• The Man Who Killed Google Search
• Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality'
• The solution to scary Boston Dynamics bots? Make robots hairy
• Meta shares plummet 10% after second quarter outlook disappoints
• Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to 'bring back the open web'
• Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam
• Bravely Exploring the Squalor of a 'Boy Room'
• This fun little web game: Equinox.Space
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• Craig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music
• Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
• Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed."
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• Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles.
• Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act
• Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Preemption
• Google tests stopping news links in California because of CJPA
• Whoops! Computer error leads to wrong couple getting divorced
• Hey, Paris: How Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months
• Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens
• Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding
• Crypto Trader Searched Web for 'Fraud' Before $110 Million Haul
• 'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
• Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
• Prophet Song
• Strands, the superior NYT game
• Cow magnets
• Vinod Khosla's tech-determinist TED wet dream

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