Mon. 02/01 – Google Deadpools The Pixel Slate

Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, betting on its $399 Microduck robot as a physical-AI data engine, Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.3 to rival Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol, and Microsoft restructured its reporting into two segments. Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12 ...  Show more

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable and Mythos 5.1 with a 75% cache-price cut, Google countered with Gemini 3.8 Flash, OpenAI teased Astra's public release, a judge spared Google's ad exchange from a sale, and the FBI probed a 153M-license leak. Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1, wh ...  Show more

Lots of news to cover today, including an update on Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, Meta is scaling back on some departments within the company, and Google's Russian subsidiary declares bankruptcy. Plus, learn how some engineers created a scientific breakthrough meant to make ...  Show more

Timestamps: 0:00 did you know? it's a tech news show 0:16 Intel CEO says "it's too late" 2:09 Grok 4 checks what Elon thinks 4:19 Subnautica 2 ex-devs sue publisher 5:47 MSI MPG A1000GS PCIE5 PSU! 6:34 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:40 Belkin announces Wemo shutdown 7:05 Google Pixel 6a batt ...  Show more

Today’s tech headlines: The official end of the iPod, Musk says he would ‘reverse’ Donald Trump’s Twitter ban, What to expect at Google I/O 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

0:00 tech news will sleep when it's dead! 0:07 Youtube copyright report 1:10 Google repair service hacks Pixel 2:05 Bitmart hacked 2:42 Build Redux 3:15 QUICK BITS 3:20 Meta to drop Oculus brand 3:44 Xbox App performance check 4:07 Twitter reverses suspende ...  Show more