741: Moon Joy
From Grumpy Old Geeks by Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
April 10, 2026 · 1h 11m · Episode 741
About this episode
The episode discusses various topics including screen time regulations for children in Europe, AI companies collaborating against Chinese firms, and recent developments in the tech industry.
We kick off with a the Dodgers spanking the Blue Jays and torn allegiances in Brian's house, then dive into Europe taking dead aim at your kids' screen time. Ireland is rolling out a Government Digital Wallet that'll verify ages before young'uns can doom-scroll their lives away, while Greece went fully scorched-earth and announced a ban on all under-15s using social media at all — announced, naturally, on TikTok. IN THE NEWS, the AI giants (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) are playing nicely together for once, teaming up through the Frontier Model Forum to stop Chinese firms from essentially photocopying their models on the cheap — billions in revenue, national security, and the small matter of safety guardrails stripped out. Turnabout is fair play? On the legal gambling front, prediction markets scored a federal win as a US appeals court ruled New Jersey can't regulate Kalshi; the Trump family's fingerprints are all over the prediction market space (surprise!), and the data suggests 0.04% of accounts are hoovering up 70% of profits like it's a perfectly healthy ecosystem. Also: the FBI pulled deleted Signal messages out of iPhone notification caches, GoPro is laying off 23% of its…
People in this episode
Hosts: Jason DeFillippo, Brian Schulmeister, Dave Bittner
Topics covered
- screen time regulation
- AI collaboration
- gambling laws
- social media bans
- space exploration
- technology news
Keywords
- screen time
- AI
- gambling
- social media
- Artemis II
- technology news
- digital wallet
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Dodgers, Blue Jays, Government Digital Wallet, TikTok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Frontier Model Forum, Kalshi, FBI
Places: Ireland, Greece, New Jersey, Illinois, Moon
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