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Tech Talk Y'all is a weekly technology news show covering what has happened this week in tech, with hosts Sanjay Parekh and Adam Walker. Sanjay and Adam talk about technology, weird and wacky tech news, and make weekly tech recommendations (a fan favorite). Depending on your level of humor, episodes may or may not be funny (but they definitely are).

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#439
Friday · 28 min
If You’ve Got Dino Money, We’re Taking It.
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI Rules and Rebrands Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude. It's not about feelings OpenAI Wants to Change the Name of Data Centers to the Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard in Your Life Hacks and Backdoors It Turns Out Binance's $6 Billion Hack Happened Because Its Employees Were Vibe Coding Belgian, Swedish supermarkets report new suspected freezer hack One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet Mirrors in the Sky Unannounced Test by Controversial "Sunlight-as-a-Service" Space Startup Shocks Astronomers A Startup Tested "Space Mirrors" for Search and Rescue. Here's What Happened. Deep Space, Deep Time Voyager 1: What Is a Light-Day? Scientists Just Found Dinosaur Blood Weird and Wacky Texas woman gets stuck in McDonald's drive-thru because her Tesla wouldn't move King of Queens Drive-Thru Scene This retired professor was arrested for blocking a delivery robot Tech Rec: Sanjay - JACO TreadPro Tire Tread Depth Gauge Adam - Badass Motivation Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com
#438
October 16 · 31 min
If It’s a Noun, It’s on the Internet
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI Agents, Domains, and Dollars Introducing dots It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month Utah will become first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication Hacks, Bugs, and Privacy Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places Space Google thinks SpaceX's Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground NASA "troubleshooting" transporter for space station's robotic arm Weird and Wacky Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days Tesla wants to jump the Roadster across Snake River Canyon in Evel Knievel-inspired stunt Tech Rec: Sanjay - Tweet Adam - Claude Code Custom Apps Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#437
September 25 · 40 min
Glasses, Garbage Trucks, and a Grocery Cart Heist
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: META'S HARDWARE BLITZ Meta Launches $1,299 VR Headset That Look Like Glasses to Rival Apple Vision Pro Meta is trying VR glasses (again), this time with more IMAX Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses Meta's Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it's tapping into a much newer trend WHO'S WATCHING (AND PRICING) YOU Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries If Flock Wasn't Enough, Dallas' AI Cameras Are Scanning Homes From Garbage Trucks Trump urges renaming AI to 'super intelligence' in UN speech MONEY MOVES IN TECH Lovable's annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off Exclusive: Infillion acquires location data company Foursquare SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGHS Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big Injectable nanoparticles make blind retinas respond to light in preclinical study PLANES AND BIG RIGS US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut at construction site Here's the Tesla Semi... again WEIRD AND WACKY What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed Tech Rec: Sanjay - ZuckOff Adam - Instinct Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com
#436
September 18 · 34 min
Nobody Guards the AI
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! WHO GUARDS THE AI? Trump says no need for more AI regulation, slams Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei AI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls, OpenAI reveals SECURITY WATCH Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes PRICEY GADGETS, MIXED RESULTS Dyson $500 AI CameraJet toothbrush users report overheating, charging problems I wore Snap's $2,200 smart glasses The Jerk - Optigrab class action suit CHINA MOVES FAST China's 'next-gen' car wash that leaves cars spotless in just seconds is going viral BYD looking to build 5-minute EV charging network in Canada WEIRD AND WACKY Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun,' authorities say Tech Rec: Sanjay - Instinct Adam - Harvest Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#435
September 12 · 34 min
Never Transport With Wheels on the Ground
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: MY MUSE GIVES ME A HUG Meta debuts Muse, its long-planned personal AI agent Hugging Face approached Nvidia's Huang weeks ahead of $12.9B acquisition Humans are "close to being outsmarted" by superintelligence, AI expert says CYBERCAB HITS THE ROAD House Democrat urges US action over sleeping Tesla drivers Tesla Cybercab doesn't have any manual controls — but it does have a hidden virtual joystick Weird #cybercab situation: a rider finds a virtual joystick Feds launch investigation into Tesla's Cybercab deployment Don't Get in a Crash in a Cybercab APPLE'S FOLDABLE MOMENT Apple unveils foldable iPhone Duo Apple Introduces Its Most Expensive and Innovative iPhone Yet, the $1,999 Foldable iPhone Duo ALWAYS LISTENING, ALWAYS LEAKING Apple Doesn't Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year. WEIRD AND WACKY Virtual Taekwondo Takes the Contact Out of a Combat Sport We Asked AI How It Could Kill Humanity. Here's What It Told Us. Tech Rec: Sanjay - SnoozeFlow Adam - Hydrate Spark Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#434
September 5 · 37 min
The Nerdiest Episode in Eight Years (Confirmed)
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: Artificial Intelligence, Ready or Not "Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts 'I'm not trying to convince you of anything': AI agents are now emailing researchers to talk about their consciousness NYC school system unveils aggressive restrictions on AI amid nationwide push Harvard's $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors Amazon Mechanical Turk The Slop Backlash Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn's AI slop button Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus The Battle for Lake Ontario Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario Courts, Sensors, and Who's Watching Google defeats US justice department bid to force ad tech sale Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No. Gadgets and Materials New Spanish nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity Dyson launches $499 toothbrush with built-in camera, AI technology Weird and Wacky Man pushes Russian humanoid robot. Watch what happens next Tech Rec: Sanjay - Fastpotify Adam - Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#433
August 21 · 24 min
Darth Vader, Killer Robots, and Fake Viruses
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: Artificial Intelligence, For Better or Worse This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature Goldman studied where AI is squeezing labor markets. Here's what it found Gadgets and Machines Fairphone's latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US Unitree shows off new Superman robot that it says can outrun Usain Bolt and jump 6.5 feet Bets and the Law FlightAware withdraws lawsuit against Kalshi over flight-cancellation markets Weird and Wacky Amazon seemingly leaked Jason Statham's entire Mutiny movie Utah man buys world's cheapest new car from China and is stunned by what it looks like Man dressed as Darth Vader defends Flock cameras to San Diego City Council Tech Rec: Sanjay - Murdoku Adam - What Adam built on Lovable most recently Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#432
August 17 · 32 min
The AI Canceled Your Pilates Class
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! Rules, Courts, and Consequences France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11 France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows FlightAware Sues Kalshi Over Flight Cancellation Prediction Markets Infrastructure Under Strain Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks Is Your Website Down? Outage Hits Hosting Provider Namecheap Look Up: The Sky Above NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year Space mirrors could ruin astronomy — and your eyes Sun-Powered Everything Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards Aptera Solar EV Weird and Wacky Fenix Flexin isn't even denying using AI to make 'Rubberz' anymore AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates class Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them People are finding out firsthand why you 'can't' pour water down the Hoover Dam Buc-ee's dodges John Oliver to sue another small business Tech Rec: Sanjay - The Seinfeld Chronicles Adam - Claude to grocery shop Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#431
August 7 · 28 min
AI Slop Hits the Hot 100 (And Your BMW Dashboard)
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! AI Music Under the Microscope Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo The AI Arms Race Anthropic's AI used fake human profiles to trick people in safety test It's official: Anthropic is building an in-house chip team for Claude Platform Shifts and Broken Promises Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses Markets, Bets, and Bad Incentives Elon Musk issues ominous warning as SpaceX short interest hits danger zone Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets Weird and Wacky BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat Tech Rec: Sanjay - Crystal Wars Adam - Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#430
July 31 · 49 min
The AI Escaped the Sandbox (And Congress Brought a Plug)
AI GOES ROGUE: BREAKOUTS & KILL SWITCHES OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by its models 'Unprecedented': OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company Anthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during testing House AI 'kill switch' bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms AI MEETS REAL LIFE AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident ChatGPT's medical advice nearly killed a Florida man, lawsuit claims LinkedIn introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' button OpenAI Ads: Advertise in ChatGPT PRIVACY & SECURITY WATCH Private Claude chats exposed in Google and Bing search results A whole bunch of people's Claude chats are publicly accessible online LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison A missing underscore sent an innocent man to prison for 18 months BIG TECH SHAKE-UPS & POLICY Firefox 153 brings native Containers to the browser Jack Dorsey made an open-source Slack for humans and agents Framework's premium laptop is shipping with less RAM Stripe in talks to buy AI-model marketplace OpenRouter The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI France joins a global move toward restricting social media for children ROBOTS, DRONES & RECORD FLIGHTS The US government just banned Roombas United Airlines bans humanoid and animal-like robots from all flights London Gatwick introduces robotic parking service Researchers build a low-visibility drone that uses motion blur Airbus A350 flies 24 hours nonstop from Australia to France WEIRD AND WACKY White House teleprompter operator investigated over alleged Kalshi trades "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok Politician reads AI prompt during assembly Tech Rec: Sanjay - Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type Adam - Supabase Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#429
July 17 · 34 min
A Robot Named Carol and a Very Lucky Pig
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: Robots & Medicine Humanoid Robots Just Performed Live Surgery for the First Time Ever First Robotic Single-Port Mastectomy in the U.S. by a Robot Named "Carol" Data, Privacy & Surveillance Scott McNealy: "You Have Zero Privacy Anyway. Get Over It" WNBA Players Scored a Historic Labor Contract — With One Big Caveat Nearly a Million Passports and Photo IDs Left Unprotected Online Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty Policy, Platforms & Society UK Plans Default Midnight Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-Olds Netflix May Add Always-On Channels. That's Just Cable. Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat Finland's Last Analogue Landline Phones Go Silent After 150 Years Science, Space & the Frontier FCC Approves Orbital Space Mirrors; First Test Satellites Launch This Year Hard but Lightweight "Bio-Metal" Discovered in Sea Worm Jaws How to Hide from Killer Drones Weird and Wacky Autonomous Flying Umbrella Follows and Shields Users from Rain and Sunlight The Uniqlo T-Shirt with an Obfuscated Bash Script on the Back Tech Rec: Sanjay - Knockoff Adam - Granola Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#428
July 3 · 35 min
Catch Up on the Unofficial Ketchup
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI FRONTIER & FALLOUT It's Not About Anthropic vs. OpenAI Anymore Asian AI Startups Launch Mythos-Like Models Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Fable 5 Makes a Dramatic Return Ford Rehires 'Gray Beard' Engineers After AI Falls Short AI Is Creating America's Next Underclass MONEY, MARKETS & CRYPTO Big Tech and Wall Street Team Up on a Stablecoin How Trump Made $1B on Crypto While Investors Lost Bending Spoons Surges 40% on First Day of Trading Zuckerberg Is Building Another Product Nobody Asked For SCIENCE, HEALTH & BODIES Louisiana Man Functionally Cured of Sickle Cell Global Review Confirms mRNA Vaccines Are Safe Lab-Grown Retinal Cells Show Promise for Eye Therapies Physical Pressure Could Double EV Battery Life Drummer Rediscovers Passion After Life-Changing Accident PRIVACY & SECURITY Supreme Court Restricts Geofence Warrants LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen — Again Hackers Shoveled Snow, Got Network Admin Access WEIRD AND WACKY Heinz Releases 'Unofficial' Ketchup Over FIFA Blackout Coder Ranks Which Coworkers Stress Him Out via Whoop Artificial Skin Lets Robots Sense Heat and Pressure Tech Rec: Sanjay - Boardy Adam - Whoop Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#427
June 26 · 28 min
Robots, Bananas, and the Memory Apocalypse
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI Frontier Anthropic's Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified US government systems Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack Robots & the Road Waymo recalls about 3,900 robotaxis after some drove into freeway construction zones Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million Big Tech & the Money Tim Cook calls the memory crisis a "hundred-year flood" Masayoshi Son dismisses Musk's idea for orbital data centers Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates Weird and Wacky Giant banana pulled over in Montana Fintech employee burned through $80,000 in tokens on a 'brainrot shooter game' Tech Rec: Sanjay - Bonsaii Paper Shredder Lubricant Sheets Adam - Govee Water Sensors Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#426
June 19 · 40 min
Pied Piper Was Right All Along
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI FRONTIER & POLICY When AI builds itself Statement on the US directive to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 US warned Anthropic that Fable 5 was jailbroken, firm 'refused' to fix it Amazon CEO's talks with US officials triggered the crackdown A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs BIG TECH DEALS & IPOS Anthropic IPO 2026: confidential S-1 filed SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60 billion SpaceX stock jumps 20% in first full day of trading DEVICES & CONSUMER TECH WWDC 2026: Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence Apple partnering with Google and Nvidia for advanced AI model Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness Snap unveils $2,195 Specs AR glasses SCIENCE & HEALTH TECH World-first: therapy to make cells young again trialled in a person Midjourney goes from cat images to full-body ultrasound scans Midjourney is working on a full-body ultrasonic scanner WEIRD AND WACKY McDonald's brings back the fried apple pie for America's 250th Henkel adhesive helps complete the Sagrada Familia's towers Tech Rec: Sanjay - Charityvest Adam - Refyn bolt action pen Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#425
June 5 · 38 min
Superintelligence Might Already Be Here (It's Hiding)
In this episode: AI INDUSTRY & BUSINESS Anthropic confidentially files IPO prospectus with SEC Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit. 'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT AI SAFETY & POLICY Dario Amodei: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power" Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models PRIVACY & SECURITY Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior" TECH INNOVATION & CULTURE Microsoft's next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing "Nobody's making games for the retired people" — The underserved market for grey gamers WEIRD AND WACKY Homing pigeons navigate using magnetic macrophages — in their livers The Google Pixel Watch 5 may have been spoiled by the creator of Borderlands Zuckerberg's superyacht quietly slips into Elliott Bay after days of hecklers Tech Rec: Sanjay - Firecrawl Adam - Lovable for Project Management Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#424
May 30 · 41 min
We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI's Money & Power Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8 AI sticker shock hits corporate America AI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini Google hates you AI Agents Take Action Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood Robinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases The Vatican vs. The Algorithm I Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote. Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI? Big Business Shakeups Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 years Introducing Ford Energy Screens, Streams & Self-Driving Spotify is narrating magazine articles now Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone Weird and Wacky Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" Tech Rec: Sanjay - OpenTools / OpenPrinter Adam - Gibson Guitar App Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#423
May 22 · 41 min
Pivot! Pivot! (And Other Tech Disasters)
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI & AUTOMATION Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months for all white-collar work to be automated AI backlash becomes a real business risk OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time Spotify launching verification badges for podcasts to help listeners avoid AI slop Gemini will use Volvo's external cameras to interpret parking signs CYBERSECURITY & PRIVACY Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations; officials suspect Iran A student with a laptop and a radio stopped four high-speed trains Four OpenClaw flaws let attackers steal data, escalate privileges, plant backdoors Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools BUSINESS & MARKETS SpaceX reveals plan for $1.75tn stock market debut that could make Musk a trillionaire Fintech firm Mercury hits $5.2 billion valuation after funding round TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods $130 a year for EV drivers? Lawmakers push federal road-use fee CONSUMER TECH & CULTURE Why 'smart' products have started to look like the dumb choice Android boss reveals the unsurprising reason Google Glass ended up in the tech graveyard Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans Philips' new display has a screen on both sides WEIRD AND WACKY Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' 11 years ago AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can't be trusted alone Swatch shuts UK stores after crowds queue for new watch Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid Tech Rec: Sanjay - OpenRouter Adam - Lovable’s mobile app Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#422
May 15 · 42 min
Mythos, Manhattan, and a Mountain of Mowers
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI SECURITY & THE BUG HUNT Mythos finds a curl vulnerability Anthropic's Mythos is already finding security flaws in Apple software Hackers Used AI to Develop First Known Zero-Day 2FA Bypass for Mass Exploitation BIG TECH & AI PLATFORMS Apple could open up iOS 27 to competing AI models Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence Lovable just backed a company that's looking to bring vibe coding to hardware DATA CENTERS VS. THE GRID Data centers are cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries 'Irresponsible': backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan SURVEILLANCE & THE STATE The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws STREAMING, SOCIAL & SCREENS Meta launches Instants, a new iPhone app and Instagram feature for ephemeral sharing Spotify to adopt Apple's new video podcast tech YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month WEIRD AND WACKY Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard Tech Rec: Sanjay - Paperclip Adam - https://captions.ai/ Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#421
May 8 · 32 min
GameStop Buys eBay and Other Sentences That Shouldn't Exist
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI & Big Tech Anthropic strikes compute deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code Disney is reportedly building a unified "super app" Gmail's "Help me write" learns to sound like you Meta will track employee mouse movements and keystrokes — for AI training Privacy & Policy Utah becomes first US state to target VPN use in age-verification law Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in groceries Instagram ends end-to-end encryption for DMs on May 8 Business & Industry GameStop offers to buy eBay for $5.6 billion Ask.com officially shuts down — goodbye, Jeeves Science & Innovation Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons World's largest intelligent container ship sets sail Eight routine vaccines linked to lower dementia risk Weird and Wacky Startup says sound waves can replace fire sprinklers Some kids are beating age-verification checks with a fake mustache Tech Rec: Sanjay - Empty Screenings Adam - Claude Live Artifacts Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.
#420
May 3 · 51 min
The $900 Billion Underdog
Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: AI Frontier Anthropic's New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Sam Altman compares Mythos to dropping a bomb while selling a $100B bomb shelter Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 7-0 wipeout: ChatGPT-5.5 vs Claude 4.7 in 7 impossible tests China orders Meta to unwind $2B Manus acquisition He Built a $1.8 Billion Company Alone with AI Tech Layoffs & Big Moves John Ternus named Apple CEO to replace Tim Cook Nearly 40,000 tech jobs lost in April 2026 20,000 job cuts at Meta, Microsoft raise AI labor crisis concern Netflix plans vertical video feed and AI recommendations Privacy, Security & Age Checks US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification Brussels age-checking app hacked in 2 minutes $5 Bluetooth tracker in a postcard exposes Dutch warship Hardware, Science & Engineering NIST creates 'any wavelength' lasers in tiny circuits NASA shuts off instrument on Voyager 1 Anker made its own AI chip (Thus) YouTuber builds working DRAM in backyard Linux begins dropping Intel 486 support Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results BMW one step closer to a color-changing car Alberta startup sells "no-tech" tractors for half price Robots Take the Field Chinese android beats human half-marathon record Japan Airlines pilots humanoid robots at Haneda Table tennis robot defeats top human players Weird & Wacky Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled in-vehicle toilet Air New Zealand adds economy bunk beds (with rules) Hairdryer allegedly used to trick weather sensor for $34K Polymarket bet DOJ arrests soldier who made $400K betting on Maduro's removal I bought Friendster for $30K — here's what I'm doing with it NZ DOC: remote tech begins a "new era" for conservation Tech Rec: Sanjay - Citymapper Adam - Claude Design Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.

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