This Week in Tech 1041: A $4 Bill

• Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we're already our own surveillance state


• Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance


• OpenAI LLM's gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition


• Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation


• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears


• Trump Signs Stablecoin Bill, Delivering Win for Crypto Industry


• Engadget Podcast: Ancestra director Eliza McNitt defends AI as a creative tool


• DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key


• DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists


• EU backs down on Big Tech tax ahead of US trade deal


• Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users


• Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats


• EU to test age-check app under new child safety rules - 9to5Mac


• Trump administration to spend $1 billion on 'offensive' hacking operations | TechCrunch


• A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers


• Uber to invest in Lucid and Nuro in massive robotaxi deal


• YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims


• This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It


• I Tested the Galaxy Z Fold 7: It's Slim, Powerful and Surprisingly Practical

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Abrar Al-Heeti, Iain Thomson, and Devindra Hardawar

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