• Nitisha Pahwa of Slate stops by the show to talk about Twitter as a company is no more and instead, Twitter Inc. has been merged into a new entity called X Corp.
• Mikah talks about HBO rebranding its online streaming service, HBO Max, into just ‘Max’ and the changes that come with this rebranding.
• Taylor Lorenz of The Washington Post chats with Mikah and Jason about Substack rolling out a new feature called Notes, which functions similarly to Twitter.
• Finally, Jason talks about some “thirsty” ChatGPT. More specifically, research from some universities suggests that around 185k gallons of water have been used to cool down data centers for services like ChatGPT.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Nitish Pahwa and Taylor Lorenz
Tech News Weekly episode 281
More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly/episodes/281
Sponsors:
• GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT
• joindeleteme.com/twittv
• decisions.com/twit
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly
Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork
TWiT may earn commissions on certain products.
Join our TWiT Community on Discourse: https://www.twit.community/
Follow us:
https://twit.tv/
https://twitter.com/TWiT
https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork
https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/
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 over 30 hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, Windows Weekly, Security Now, All About Android, and more.
