
A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections.
22-12-2025 | 6 Min.
Waymo halted its autonomous ride-hailing services in the city in response. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Governor signed AI safety act, tweak how warm and enthusiastic ChatGPT's responses are, and Mark Zuckerberg's nonprofit cut ties with the immigration advocacy group he co-founded
22-12-2025 | 8 Min.
-New York governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Friday aimed at holding large AI developers accountable for the safety of their models. The RAISE Act establishes rules for greater transparency, requiring these companies to publish information about their safety protocols and report any incidents within 72 hours of their occurrence. -OpenAI revealed that users can adjust characteristics under new Warm, Enthusiastic, Header & Lists and Emoji options found in the Personalization settings. Between the four options, you can choose between more, less or default to fine-tune exactly how you want ChatGPT to sound in its responses. -On Friday, Bloomberg reported on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) severing its ties with FWD.us. Zuckerberg's group provided no funding to the advocacy group for the first time this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alexa+ can now answer your Ring doorbell and talk to people
19-12-2025 | 6 Min.
But will it ask them to buy stuff? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Starlink satellite exploded and left 'trackable' debris, Honda will pause production due to a chip shortage, and Trump Mobile's T1 still doesn't exist, but the company is now selling refurbished phones
19-12-2025 | 7 Min.
-Orbital tracking company LeoLabs assessed that the issue was caused by an "internal energetic source rather than a collision with space debris or another object." SpaceX said it's working with NASA and the US Space Force to track the remains of the object. -Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Honda will suspend production in Japan on January 5 and 6. (Honda didn't specify the affected factories.) In addition, all three of the automaker's Guangqi Honda Automobile plants in China will shut down from December 29 to January 2. -Gizmodo noticed that Trump Mobile is selling these other brands' phones for the same cost, or sometimes more, than the same refurbs from other retailers. Seems pretty par for the course. NBC News opted to order one of the T1 phones in August to track its development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google's Gemini 3 Flash model outperforms GPT-5.2 in some benchmarks
18-12-2025 | 6 Min.
So much for OpenAI's triumphant return Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices



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