This Week in Tech (Video)

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• Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare


• Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style


• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation


• Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All


• Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak


• Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?


• Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office


• 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down


• Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year


• As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next


• Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design


• China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?


• Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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