Celebrate Towel Day with Leo Laporte, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Brian McCullough, and Yours Truly! We talk about Apple’s $900 million tariff nightmare as Trump threatens a 25% tariff on iPhones and Samsung devices. Dive into the latest AI breakthroughs from Google and Microsoft, including science-discovering agentic platforms and hyper-realistic AI video generators that blur the line between fact and fiction.
We also address the coming death of CAPTCHAs, the privacy risks of Amazon’s smart speakers, and the return of smart glasses with Google’s new Android XR partnerships, the FTC's dropping of its challenge to Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion hardware gamble with Jony Ive, the killing of the penny, Epic Games’ App Store victory, new brain-computer interface competitors, and infrared contact lenses that give you night vision.
Plus: Jennifer talks about her testing of laser-charged smart home gadgets, and the $2,600 robot vacuum that picks up socks.
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