Elephants on the Moon - Apple and the AI Race

• 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 This Week in Tech episode 1044 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1044 Sponsors: • bitwarden.com/twit • oracle.com/twit • expressvpn.com/twit • NetSuite.com/TWIT • shopify.com/twit Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twittok LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twit-llc #openai #chatgpt #apple About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.