TWiT 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles - Which Religion Does AI Identify With?

About this episode

The episode discusses various issues in technology, including AI in education, government crackdowns on tech companies, and the return of Apple to Intel amidst chip wars.

Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech! Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla…

Topics covered

• AI in education
• technology companies
• chip wars
• ethical AI
• government crackdowns
• Canvas hack
• social media advertising

Keywords

• AI
• education
• Canvas hack
• chip wars
• government crackdowns
• ethical AI
• Meta
• Pinterest
• Tesla
• OpenAI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, Intel, Meta, NHTSA, Canvas, Anthropic, OpenAI, Ars Technica, Pinterest

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