Speaker
Leo Laporte
Appearances over time
7 episodes
Episodes
7
TWiT 1092: You Brought a Knife to a Wolf Fight - Apple Accuses OpenAI of Trade Secret Theft
TWiT 1091: But You Didn't Move the Bodies - Surprising Supreme Court Move on Geofence Warrants
TWiT 1090: Flock of SQLs - Apple & Microsoft Grapple With Soaring Hardware Prices
TWiT 1089: Robot Butt Crack - Anthropic Banned, But Winning
TWiT 1088: Model Not Available - Anthropic's Fable Shutdown & Apple's Siri Update
TWiT 1087: Evil is the Root of All Money - Could Local AI Laptops Compete With Data Center Giants?
TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical & Ferrari's 1st EV
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants — sweeping requests for location data of everyone near a crime scene — violate the Fourth Amendment.
SpaceX's planned IPO at $135/share would value the company at $1.77 trillion, making it the largest IPO in history — roughly 3x the size of the previous record holder, Saudi Aramco.
The Trump administration gave Anthropic only 90 minutes to take Fable 5 offline, with no details provided about the actual threat.
DuckDuckGo installs rose 30% in a single week after Google placed AI Overviews prominently at the top of all search results.
Anthropic's share of AI business subscriptions rose to 41% in May, finally beating OpenAI which held 39.5%, reportedly boosted by the government ban making the product seem extremely powerful.
Apple's lawsuit alleges OpenAI advised departing employees not to disclose their next employer and coached them on avoiding immediate 'walkout' termination to preserve access to Apple's confidential data.
Leo Laporte's household diverted 413 pounds of food waste from landfills since October using the Mill food recycler.
OpenAI paid roughly $6.5 billion to acquire Johnny Ive's Products Inc., which also brought in Tang Tan and Evans Hankey — the hardware leaders Apple is suing over.
Independently verified financial documents obtained by Ed Zitron and the Financial Times show OpenAI lost $38.5 billion last year, though much of that reflects non-cash restructuring from nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion.
Fable 5's adversarial jailbreak attack success rate was just 5.4%, compared to 83% for Claude Opus 4.6, per Anthropic's own data.
Anthropic conducted over 1,000 hours of red team testing on Fable 5 with a bug bounty program, and claimed no universal jailbreaks were found.
SpaceX receives approximately $38 billion in federal government contracts, yet its non-Starlink space launch business still loses money.
Apple raised prices on MacBook Neo and other devices by as much as $200, with the Neo going from $599 to $699.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup spent $1 billion on security systems including facial recognition cameras that are unlikely to be removed after the games end.
Microsoft's new Xbox head Asha Sharma revealed that for every dollar invested in Xbox studios, 64 cents were lost in a single year, prompting the 3,200-person cut.
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical is a surprisingly sophisticated AI policy document, built on years of Vatican engagement with Silicon Valley leaders including Reid Hoffman and Microsoft's CTO. The core argument: a small group of tech elites in Silicon Valley and Beijing should not be deciding the future of AI for all of humanity.
The tech industry's favorite argument is that AI development is inevitable — if we don't do it, China will. Molly White and Pope Leo XIV both reject this framing, arguing that humans retain the capacity to decide whether, and how, to develop AI. It's not physics. It's a choice.
Google has bet its search product on AI Overviews, putting AI-generated answers front and center. The backlash is immediate: DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30% in one week. Even Molly White's mom is using DuckDuckGo without being told to. The panel debate: is Google destroying the web ecosystem that feeds its own AI?
Andreessen Horowitz has become the single largest political donor in the current U.S. election cycle, outspending Big Oil, Big Pharma, and even Elon Musk. Molly White and Gary Rivlin explain that crypto and AI companies are running identical playbooks: dump hundreds of millions into politics, write your own regulation, and crush competitors with compliance costs.
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.
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.
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.
Molly White reveals that Donald Trump has cashed out over $1 billion from crypto holdings since taking office — not counting illiquid meme coin wealth worth billions more. A CoinDesk poll found most respondents oppose elected officials personally profiting from crypto, but only a tiny fraction were even aware Trump was doing it.
The web is increasingly full of AI-generated content, which is then scraped as training data for the next generation of AI models. Molly White cites research on 'model collapse' — where models fed too much AI-generated training data begin to degrade. Meanwhile, Google's AI search is simultaneously destroying the human-created web it depends on.
The auto industry lobbied furiously against seatbelts and emissions standards. They lost. And in the 60 years since, the industry innovated more than in its entire prior history. Sam Abuelsamid argues this is the perfect counter-argument to Silicon Valley's claim that AI regulation will kill innovation — constraints force creativity.
Peter Thiel, one of the architects of Silicon Valley's influence over American politics through companies like Palantir, has relocated to Argentina with his family. He already holds New Zealand citizenship and applied for Maltese citizenship. Molly White notes that crypto billionaires collecting passports to non-extradition countries is a familiar and worrying pattern.
Mark Gurman's Bloomberg leak shows iOS 27 will feature a persistent Siri window at the top of the screen, a chatbot-style interface, and deep AI integration throughout the OS. Gary Rivlin points out this is Apple's fourth AI strategy reveal in four years — and it's still leaning on Google Gemini underneath. The panel wonders whether Apple's famously polished UX will make AI more palatable to mainstream users.
The panel traces a direct line from Citizens United to the impossibility of meaningful AI regulation: when money equals speech, the entities with the most money — tech companies standing to make trillions — will always write the rules. Larry Lessig has been warning about this for years. Molly White offers a rare note of hope: Maine's 75% referendum vote shows the public wants change, even if Congress doesn't.
The new generation of rockets from SpaceX and Blue Origin all use methane engines, which are not only burning greenhouse gases at launch but are continuously boiling off liquid methane during pad operations. Sam Abuelsamid points out that Elon Musk also powers his data centers with methane, creating a concerning pattern of methane dependency across his empire.
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a hot fire test, destroying the company's only launchpad and setting back NASA's lunar program by at least a year. The explosion was so massive that Ring camera videos captured the sky lighting up miles away — and it puts the spotlight on how Blue Origin's failure creates a dangerous SpaceX monopoly on U.S. launch capacity.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Technology 50%
- Business 14%
- Government 14%
- Health & Fitness 7%
- Society & Culture 7%
- Education 4%
- Science 4%
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