Snapshot · This Week in Tech (Audio)
Sam Abuelsamid's Operation Frodo dog rescue has transported 88 dogs from Nebraska to the Pacific Northwest over four years, this year using an all-electric vehicle fleet.
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Leo Laporte wraps the show with individual plugs for each guest: garyrivlin.com for Gary Rivlin's AI Valley and future projects; citationneeded.news for Molly White's newsletter, podcast, and upcoming Citizens United episode; wheelbearings.media for Sam Abuelsamid's car podcast. Sam gets one final plug for Operation Frodo on Animal Rescue Rigs. Leo gives the full TWiT listener guide — the show streams 2-5 PM Pacific every Sunday on YouTube, Twitch, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Kick; audio and video downloads at twit.tv; Club TWiT at twit.tv/clubtwit for ad-free feeds and member Discord. He closes with the show's 21-year-old sign-off: 'Another TWiT is in the can.' A post-roll Mint Mobile sponsorship ad featuring Ryan Reynolds' voice follows.
Waymo robotaxis drove into floodwaters with passengers, got stuck circling roundabouts endlessly, and failed to recognize school buses. The company has paused all highway operations while it tries to diagnose problems in an AI-based system where the behavior is fundamentally harder to debug than the old rules-based approach. Sam Abuelsamid says nobody is making money on robotaxis yet — and won't be for years.
Waymo paused all highway operations and reduced services in multiple cities after incidents including robotaxis driving into floodwaters and failing to recognize school buses.
Morgan Stanley projects that 30% of the U.S. rideshare industry will be served by autonomous vehicles by 2032.
Ferrari's first EV, the Luce, costs $640,000 and carries design input from Jony Ive's firm LoveFrom. Sam Abuelsamid's verdict: the interior is genuinely interesting, but the exterior could belong to any premium brand — it just doesn't look like a Ferrari. Many suspect this is essentially what Jony Ive wanted Apple's canceled Project Titan car to look like.
Ferrari's first EV, the Luce, designed with help from Jony Ive, carries a starting price of approximately $640,000.
Sam Abuelsamid's Operation Frodo charity drive transports rescue beagles from Nebraska to the Pacific Northwest, where demand for the breed far outstrips supply. This year's drive uses an all-electric vehicle fleet — Cadillac Escalade IQ, Lucid Gravity, Hyundai Ioniq 9, and Kia EV9 — covering 2,700 miles with free charging from EVgo at Pilot Flying J stations.
San Francisco's average rent rose 18% over the past two years to $3,728/month, surpassing New York City as the most expensive rental market in the country.
San Francisco's average monthly rent now stands at $3,728, surpassing New York City to become the most expensive rental city in the United States.
At a childhood sleepover, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises on his face and he walked 7 miles home on a dirt road before being picked up by Eric Purvis's mom.
In 1950, about 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty; today it's about 1 in 10, attributable to capitalist economic growth.
From 2021 to 2024, 6 million children fell below the poverty line in the US after the expanded child tax credit expired.
Private domestic infant and international adoptions typically cost $40,000 to $70,000, while foster care adoption is the most affordable route at $0 to $2,000.
Historically, only 40% of men have ever reproduced — Galloway uses this to argue that romantic success requires effort, not a hall pass.
Robby Hoffman is the 7th of 10 children raised in a Hasidic household in Montreal, where the family was poor and comedy was a survival mechanism.
Robby's Hasidic community had no concept of 'too soon' in comedy — if it was funny, you threw it, and if you bombed, your sibling told you immediately.
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