From “gainfully employed robots” to AI that accidentally ruins lives, this week's conversation unpacks the real-world fallout of futuristic promises. Leo, JPT, Iain, and Richard tackle energy sources, social media effects, tech layoffs, and the algorithms quietly taking charge. • Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount • Meta Said to Push Back Launch of Avocado Model • Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children • Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal • Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside • Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam • X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation • Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X • Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion • Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform • Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots • Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases • DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery • U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them • EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (related to the plug-in solar story) • TerraPower gets permit to build reactor • Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for ‘Gainfully Employed Robots’ • Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud • Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case • Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power • Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff • How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world • ‘Flying Cars’ Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer • YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue • Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns • Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them • Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92 Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Iain Thomson, Richard Campbell, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy This Week in Tech episode 1075 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1075 Sponsors: • http://expressvpn.com/twit • http://preview.modulate.ai • http://monarch.com with code TWIT • http://spaceship.com/twit • http://threatlocker.com/twit Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twittok LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twit-llc #meta #doge #nvidia 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 dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.