TWiT 1091: But You Didn't Move the Bodies - Surprising Supreme Court Move on Geofence Warrants
This Week in Tech (Audio)Show Notes
A landmark Supreme Court decision shakes up digital privacy, setting new limits on police surveillance and potentially redefining personal data rights in the age of AI and location tracking. Plus, Chinese AI models are rapidly gaining ground while American companies battle lawsuits, regulatory crackdowns, and soaring chip shortages. The global race for AI dominance is wide open!
US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Musk's X poses "serious risk to Americans' privacy," advocates warn FTC
The World Cup added $1 billion in security systems. What happens after the games end?
U.S. Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic's Most Powerful A.I. Models
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages
Companies Are Throttling Employees' AI Use Because It's Too Expensive
Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
Swedish court orders Google to pay $1.5 billion to Klarna in antitrust damages
Google loses final appeal over $4.7 billion EU Android antitrust fine
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock
Apple may struggle to get clearance for Chinese RAM, even for Chinese iPhones
BYD Sells the Most Battery Electric Cars Again
NASA mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory has launched
NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late
South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
Spotify deletes streams of chart-topping song after suspicious Kalshi bets
Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Jason Hiner, Lisa Schmeiser, and Owen JJ Stone
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