TWiT 1025: Weak Perfection - Signalgate, Miyazaki's Nightmare

Leaked Signal group chat, xAI x X merger, Studio ChatGhibli-T

• Hayao Miyazaki's AI Nightmare
• Studio Ghibli has few legal options to stop OpenAI from ripping off its style
• No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
• Okay, I'm Starting to Think AI Can Do My Job After All
• Clearly we're talking about the WH Signal Leak
• Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?
• Musk shuffles $80 billion in assets, reshapes gov't — just another week at the office
• 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and CEO Anne Wojcicki has stepped down
• Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
• As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What's Next
• Madison Square Garden's surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
• China bans facial recognition without consent; where's US law on this?
• Google's new experimental AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is now available to free users too

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Iain Thomson, and Jacob Ward

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