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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

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Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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• Intel's new CEO to host Vision 2025 Opening Keynote on March 31st
• Apple Can't Beat Spotify
• Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal
• Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
• Vance Expects Outlines of TikTok Deal to Become Clear by Early April
• Telegram's Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
• Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company
• Commerce Official Gives Elon Musk Middle Finger Over Starlink
• Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
• Scientists Achieve Record-Breaking Fusion Stability, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Clean Infinite Energy
• Police Warn iPhone, Android Users As Dangerous Texts Soar 600%
• Do school phone bans actually work? A new study says not really
• Klarna's deal with DoorDash is a dystopian reminder that groceries are so expensive you need a loan to shop

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The Electric State, Kill Switches, Baidu's AI, Scopely, Careless People, Gemini Robotics

• An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
• DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags
• Future Today Strategy Group, or FTSG.
• Intel has a new CEO
• Russo Brothers' Busy, Boring Netflix Sci-Fi
• Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games
• Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie
• Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090
• Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic
• Developer convicted for "kill switch" code activated upon his termination
• TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app
• F-35 kill switch concerns non-US countries
• Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
• Sonos Cancels Its Streaming Video Player - Slashdot
• Everything You Say To Your Echo Will Be Sent To Amazon Starting On March 28
• Musk-led cuts drive US consumer protection agency to ask for Amazon trial delay

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