Amazon Returns to Office, CA AI Bill, Elon Backs Down • Discussion of the iPhone 16  • Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days  • Hezbollah Pagers Explode in Apparent Attack Across Lebanon  • Elon Musk’s X Backs Down in Brazil  • Bluesky tops 10 million users  • Newsom signs California bill to limit ‘addictive’ social media feeds for kids  • The AI bill driving a wedge through Silicon Valley  • Microsoft Would Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Power AI  • Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law  • Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December  • Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Ben Parr, Alex Lindsay, and Rob Pegoraro This Week in Tech episode 998 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/998 Sponsors: • NetSuite.com/TWIT • canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT • expressvpn.com/twit • shopify.com/twit • veeam.com Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech 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. Follow us: https://twit.tv/ https://twitter.com/TWiT https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ https://bsky.app/profile/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 dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, Windows Weekly, Security Now, and more. #ai #amazon #iphone16