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Manage episode 500132432 series 2284860
On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. wade into the river of recent news about artificial intelligence — while stopping to pour one out for the soon-to-be-discontinued AOL dial-up modem service. Hear it all (and more) with one click of the Play button for PTJ 384!
• Alexa Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. How Smart Is It Now? (The New York Times)
• OpenAI Brings Back Fan-Favorite GPT-4o After a Massive User Revolt (Gizmodo)
• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. (Gary Marcus Substack)
• Apple App Intents Voice Control Feature for Siri, Apps; iOS 26 Release Timing (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice (TechCrunch)
• Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age (The New York Times)
• Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats (Wired)
• Reddit will block the Internet Archive (The Verge)
• End of an era: AOL to discontinue its dial-up internet service after 30 years (The Guardian)
167 episodes
Manage episode 500132432 series 2284860
On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. wade into the river of recent news about artificial intelligence — while stopping to pour one out for the soon-to-be-discontinued AOL dial-up modem service. Hear it all (and more) with one click of the Play button for PTJ 384!
• Alexa Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. How Smart Is It Now? (The New York Times)
• OpenAI Brings Back Fan-Favorite GPT-4o After a Massive User Revolt (Gizmodo)
• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. (Gary Marcus Substack)
• Apple App Intents Voice Control Feature for Siri, Apps; iOS 26 Release Timing (Bloomberg)
• Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice (TechCrunch)
• Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age (The New York Times)
• Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats (Wired)
• Reddit will block the Internet Archive (The Verge)
• End of an era: AOL to discontinue its dial-up internet service after 30 years (The Guardian)
167 episodes
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