Episode 413: Avoid all Robots

SBF was found guilty, Biden is taking control of AI, and Elon has a new chatbot named Grok. What more could you need for one episode? Well we found plenty more to talk about with plenty of side-steps and hot technical difficulty talk. Enjoy and tech better!

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Intro (00:00)

Followup:
- Apple Updates Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro (07:15)
- Qualcom announces new ARM chips (08:15)
- Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac (09:15)
- Apple Quarterly Results (11:40)
- Mint shutting down - Episode 175: Pneumatic Tubes (12:50)

Dave’s Pro Tip of the Week: People in photos on iPhone (18:00)

Just the headlines: (26:45)
- Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven criminal fraud counts
- NASA sends software patch 12 billion miles to Voyager 2
- DoorDash is testing warnings about bad service if you don’t tip your driver
- Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC
- A world record in race walking is erased after the course was measured wrong

Takes:
- The Beatles’ final song is now streaming thanks to AI (28:40)
- Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others (30:40)
- Meta Trained an AI on 48M Science Papers. It Was Shut Down After 2 Days (33:00)
- Biden signs executive order to oversee and invest in AI (35:15)
- Bomb threat involving food delivery robots at Oregon State University proved to be a prank (37:15)
- Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says (39:55)

Bonus Odd Take: Internet Artifacts Museum Neal.fun - Nate’s Numa Numa Tribute (41:25)

Picks of the Week:

Dave: Keychron K7 Ultra-Slim 65% Layout 68 Keys Wireless Bluetooth/Wired Mechanical Keyboard, Hot Swappable Low-Profile Gateron Blue Switch RGB LED Backlit Keyboard Compatible with Mac Windows (46:15)
Nate: MacSales.com and the Apple Magic Keyboard Space Gray (50:00)

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