Intelligent Machines with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Feb 12th 2025

Intelligent Machines 806

I'm Piffed

Musk Vs. Altman, YouTube on TV, WikiTok

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Category: News
  • Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
  • Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy to lead the CFTC
  • Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”
  • Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
  • FYI related: Court Unplugs AI Fair Use Defense, But Context Is Key
  • “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
  • How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term
  • Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
  • The Strategy Behind Musk’s $97 Billion Bid for OpenAI
  • ‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.
  • 25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods - The New York Times
  • WikiTok
  • BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
  • Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
     

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