This Week in Tech 1025: Weak Perfection
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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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