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From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week
OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."
Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster
Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with 'one of best possible outcomes'
Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI
DeepMind releases new music model
Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
Introducing Stable Video Diffusion — Stability AI
Google Meet can now detect when you physically raise your hand
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
Google Maps' new look may frustrate Calif. drivers as Thanksgiving travel begins
Google will work with Apple on implementing RCS on iPhone
Anthropic Introduces Claude 2.1 With 200K Context Window
Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Lawsuit Against Meta
Congrats To Elon Musk: I Didn't Think You Had It In You To File A Lawsuit This Stupid. But, You Crazy Bastard, You Did It!
What Spotify's New Royalty Model Really Means
MC HAMMER on X: "Salute and congratulations to the 710 plus @OpenAI team members who gave an unparalleled demonstration of loyalty, love and commitment to @sama and @gdb in these perilous times it was a thing of beauty to witness. Salute
Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over 'Video Game Addiction', Because That's Easier Than Parenting
Picks:

Paris - a beautiful 2 minutes in live caller history. Stephen A. Smith vs a guy who tries to ask about Cars
Paris - And.... from the mind that brought you basement eel guy: TikTok tunnel girl
Jeff - No evidence screen time is negative for children's cognitive development and well-being: Oxford Study
Ant - Great Review From Mr Sargent and Mr Nielsen - Shot on iPhone 15
Ant - LumaFusion Update Includes Editing on SSD
Ant - Bittersweet and Grateful
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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On this episode of Windows Weekly, Leo, Paul, and Richard dive deep into the latest OpenAI/Microsoft partnership drama involving Sam Altman's position. They also discuss upcoming EU regulations and their impact on Microsoft products, evaluate NVIDIA's record-breaking Q3 earnings, and reminisce about the classic PC FPS Half-Life.



And you thought AI was already controversial...

On Friday, OpenAI's board suddenly and unexpectedly fired CEO Sam Altman, kicking off several days of unprecedented high drama
OpenAI president and board chairman Greg Brockman announced that he was quitting in protest
Microsoft announced it had hired Altman and Brockman over the weekend
95 percent of OpenAI employees threatened to quit if Altman did not come back
Altman began negotiating his return to OpenAI (and major governance changes)
Altman is once again CEO of OpenAI
Key takeaway: No matter what happens, Microsoft wins
Wrong takeaway: Nothing changed
Windows

Windows 11 is about to get awesome in the EEA
WHY IS WINDOWS 11 ONLY GOING TO BE AWESOME IN THE EEA???
Microsoft confirms that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 too. "No new features, my ass!"
Copilot begins rolling out to Windows 10 in Insider Program
Release Preview: Copilot in Alt + Tab and on other displays, limited Copilot with local account, DMA compliance, Windows Spotlight changes
Canary: Disable Phone Link in the Bluetooth settings, display Teams contacts in the Windows share window when signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID
Dev: Narrator improvements, File Explorer fixes (wait for it)
Redmond, we have a problem. With Windows Hello
Earnings learning

NVIDIA continues to soar on AI (Winner)
Zoom has settled back down to reality
HP stumbles through its fourth quarter and FY2023: AI PCS FTW in late 2024!
Lenovo stumbles too, but explicitly predicts industry recovery
Antitrust

Apple, ByteDance, and Meta contest their DMA gatekeeper designations
Xbox

Half-Life turned 25 last weekend and Valve finally remembered it exists
Nvidia's GeForce Now adds Microsoft Store, PC Game Pass, and Ubisoft+ integration - over 1700 games now
Amazon Luna comes to France, Italy, and Spain
Next Call of Duty leaks!
Tips and Picks

Tip of the week: Ignite's over, but the videos are forever
App pick of the week: Half-Lif
RunAs Radio this week: Azure Operator Nexus with Jennelle Crothers
Brown liquor pick of the week: Willett Wheated 8 Year Bourbon
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Privacy and Funding Challenges Facing Signal Messaging App
Loss of Advertisers for Twitter After Controversial Tweet by Elon Musk
Ransomware Group Files SEC Complaint Against Breached Company
Europe Opening Up Radio Encryption Standard TETRA for Public Review
Apple Announcing Adoption of RCS Messaging for iPhones
Steve's Progress on Dynamic Code Signing for SpinRite Releases
Removing Suction Cup Barnacles from Windshields
Recommendations for Benchmarking USB Drive Read/Write Speeds
Concerns Over EU's Proposed eIDAS 2.0 QWACs Legislation
Why Protectli Routers Are Preferred for pfSense Setups
Credit Card Security Precautions for Ex-LastPass Users
Origins and Evolution of Ethernet Networking Over 50 Years
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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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RCS messaging is finally coming to the iPhone in 2024. So, will Apple continue to use green bubbles for non-iMessage messages? Apple released its holiday film titled 'Fuzzy Feelings'. And last week, Nothing announced an iMessage app in partnership with Sunbird for Android users but took down the app within 24 hours due to security issues found within the app. 

Inside the Chaos at OpenAI.
Apple Music Classical is now available on the iPad.
Apple says RCS messaging coming to the iPhone in 2024.
RCS messages will use green bubbles, Apple confirms.
Watch Apple's annual holiday film now: 'Fuzzy Feelings'.
Nothing's iMessage app was a security catastrophe, taken down in 24 hours.
Epic Games' Sweeney takes aim at Android's 'Fake Open Platform'.
Tim Cook talks about his personal life and work at Apple in interview with Dua Lipa.
Picks of the Week

Jason's Pick: Timery
Andy's Pick: Panels
Alex's Pick: FujiFilm Instax
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell

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Discussion of upcoming Black Friday sales on Google Pixel phones and tablets
Concerns with the Pixel tablet including laggy performance, inability to use independently from dock, and high pricing
Leo shares his epiphany on the usefulness of AI for expert systems and personalized agents
Demonstration of Leo's custom AI assistants for Lisp and Emacs programming languages
Talk of Elon Musk's reputation decline after acquiring Twitter
Discussion of studies showing people perceive AI-generated faces as more human than real faces
Overview of lawsuit allowing school districts to sue social media companies for youth addiction
Interview with Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO and current Stanford professor
Alex's perspective on risks of deepfakes in elections vs for individual harassment
Thoughts on moral panic around social media and youth mental health
Alex recounts attending a closed-door Senate AI hearing led by Senator Schumer
Discussion of social media companies loosening policies on election misinformation
Concerns about TikTok as a news source and possible propaganda risks
Talk of new book "A History of Fake Things on the Internet" by Walter Shirer
Alex's suggestion for comprehensive federal privacy regulations
Revelation during Google antitrust trial of Apple's cut of Google search revenue
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Alex Stamos

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Paul and Richard are at Microsoft Ignite 2023 and just watched the keynote! Leo Laporte chats with them to discuss the clarified rebranding of Copilot, some new AI features in Windows 365, Microsoft Loop's availability, the release of .NET 8, two decades of Patch Tuesday, a neat Xbox Series bundle discount for Black Friday, and more!

Microsoft Ignite

(Final) Copilot rebranding clarifies the naming changes announced in September
Copilot for Microsoft 365 adds plug-in support, more
Windows 11: Windows AI Studio announced, Dev Home and WSL are updated
New AI capabilities in Windows 365
Microsoft Loop is now available
New Teams now GA, 320 million users - Mesh in Jan 2024
Clipchamp and Microsoft Designer come to Microsoft 365 commercial
Microsoft announces its first custom AI chipsets for the Azure datacenter
Dev: .NET Conf

Microsoft releases .NET 8 with .NET Aspire
Windows 11

Microsoft releases 23H2 for the fourth time?
One tiny bit of OneDrive de-ensh*ttification does not address the bigger issues
Patch Tuesday turns 20, Microsoft couldn't care less
The new Outlook: People, we have a roadmap!
Microsoft Store now lets you decide where to install games
Copilot in Microsoft Shopping, AI review summaries come to Bing and Edge
Microsoft, more AI

Microsoft will not challenge its gatekeeper designation in the EU
Google brings generative AI search to 120+ new countries
Google will ID AI-based videos in YouTube
Google Photos gets some cool AI organizational features
Xbox

Xbox Series X|S are discounted by $50 for Black Friday
Halo Infinite goes retro too, adds Halo 3 playlist
Here are more titles coming to Xbox Game Pass
Here comes the OLED Steam Deck
PS5 "Slim" is now available in the US - Sony unlikely to hit PS5 sales targets
Amazon lays off gaming staff, will refine Prime Gaming perks
Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Google's Black Friday sale looks solid
App pick of the week: Microsoft Loop
RunAs Radio this week: Microsoft Entra Security Service Edge with Richard Hicks
Brown liquor pick of the week: Makers Mark Cellar Aged
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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