This Week in Tech 1044: Elephants on the Moon

• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.


• Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT


• Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain


• Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company


• Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions


• Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac


• Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper


• Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas


• Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain


• Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About


• Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift


• Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable?


• Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer


• San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024


• Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash


• Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Owen Thomas, Doc Rock, and Wesley Faulkner

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