• Ant Pruitt talks with Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt about how AI is dominating news headlines and finding the middle ground between the excitement of what AI can do and the doomsay of AI.
• Mikah Sargent shares two stories this week. The first is about the “poop emoji” & the legal history behind emojis in the last couple of years.
• Secondly, Mikah talks about a report from Reuters about how Tesla workers acquired & shared sensitive images recorded by customers’ Tesla vehicles.
• Finally, Sam Abuelsamid joins the show to talk about how old laptops & EV batteries, California’s requirement for half of heavy truck sales to be electric by 2035, and Tesla setting a new record for itself after delivering more than 420l EVs in Q1 of 2023.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Ant Pruitt
Guests: Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD and Sam Abuelsamid
Tech News Weekly Episode 280
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