• Mark Zuckerberg just released his own NSFW version of 'Get Low' in a tribute to his wife
• Mattel Mistakenly Lists Porn Site on Packaging for 'Wicked' Dolls
• The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off
• Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue
• Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election
• Matter 1.4 tries to set the smart home standard back on track
• Google's learning
• OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of 'GPT' AI Improvements Slows
• Microsoft, A16Z AI manifesto: AI for startups
• Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
• Randy Travis's beautiful baritone was lost. AI helped him sing again.
• Particle launches an AI news app to help publishers, instead of just stealing their work
• YouTube is testing music remixes made by AI
• I Spoke Only to Chatbots for 24 Hours. Who Needs Human Friends?
• Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb
• Chris Wallace Quits CNN to Pivot to Streaming, Podcasting
• Nicholas Carlson, the former top editor of Business Insider, is starting a new company that will focus on video.
• Lena Dunham to write Sam Bankman-Fried movie for Apple
• Banjo Toss, the game
• After years of trying, Just Eat Takeaway is selling Grubhub to Wonder for $650M
• Research suggests people are getting more bored
• Times New Dumbass font

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Tech in the new Admin
• TikTok Sees Trump Victory As App's Best Hope
• Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump for 'extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory'
• Elon Musk says Trump win is just the start of his political ambitions
• Silicon Valley is officially grieving over Trump but quietly gleeful over a possible tech deal resurgence
• The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off
• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
• NYTimes Games for the strike
• Florida Access Network
• WebCheck

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• Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers
• Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
• Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
• Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here's Why
• Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content
• Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
• Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
• Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth
• More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
• Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
• McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
• RIP Foursquare
• Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity
• WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
• LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
• Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
• Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
• Masnick on Elon Musk Events
• TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
• The Age of Cage
• Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
• McKinsey's 18 next big arenas of competition

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