TWiT 1083: A Whole Separate Class of Squiggles - Which Religion Does AI Identify With?

Campus hacks bring final exams to a standstill, a blockbuster study on AI in education gets pulled, and the world's biggest technology companies face government crackdowns with barely a dent to their bottom lines. Plus, Apple returns to Intel as chip wars reshape US tech!

• Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Chatter • Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide • The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle • Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica • Anthropic Says It Has Eliminated Undesirable Behaviour Like Blackmail From Claude By Deeply Explaining To It Why It Was Wrong • Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI • Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems • Apple, Intel Have Reached Preliminary Chip-Making Agreement • Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October • Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money • Chrome's Prompt API: A Unilateral Gamble That Is Fracturing Web Standards • NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; • Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA • Here is Yarbo's promise to fix the robot mower that ran me over • Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites • Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match • Cloudflare beat earnings, cut 1,100 jobs because AI agents do the work now, and lost a quarter of its stock price in a day • Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot • The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number • Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache • FCC to allow banned drones and routers to receive critical updates until 2029

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Berber Jin, Iain Thomson, and Paris Martineau

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