This Week in Tech 1044: Elephants on the Moon

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it. Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain Perplexity gives Apple new reason not to acquire the AI company Trump's Threat to Hit Chips With 100% Tariffs Raises Big Questions Apple chipmaker TSMC says it too is exempt from US tariffs - 9to5Mac Oracle 21 Better Faster Cheaper Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas Apple's bid to close the AI gap could be hampered by AI brain drain Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About Amazon Cuts 100 Wondery Jobs Amid Podcast Strategy Shift Nuclear reactor on the moon is actually kind of doable? Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer San Francisco metro area's unemployment hits highest level since 2024 Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash Dial-up Internet to be discontinued Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Owen Thomas, Doc Rock, and Wesley Faulkner Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit oracle.com/twit expressvpn.com/twit NetSuite.com/TWIT shopify.com/twit