Facial Recognition Glasses Are Here. Is Privacy Over? Ft. Dominic-Madori Davis Of TechCrunch

This week on Techish, Michael and TechCrunch’s Dominic-Madori dive into how new technologies are affecting privacy, Apple’s take on AI limits, and new media’s role in politics with elections around the corner. They also chat about how consumer habits are shaking up companies like Starbucks and wrap up with a look at the reparations debate.
- Doxing Strangers With Meta’s Smart Glasses (00:00)
- Apple Dunks on Large Language Models (06:50)
- The Podcast Election: How New Media Is Shaping the Trump-Harris Election (11:05)
- Starbucks is struggling (23:35)
- UK Prime Minister Says No to Reparation (27:55)
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Extra Reading & Resources
- Two Students Created Face Recognition Glasses. It Wasn’t Hard [New York Times]
- Apple study reveals major AI flaw in OpenAI, Google, and Meta LLMs [Mashable]
- Mother Sues AI Chatbot Maker After Teen Son’s Death [POCIT]
- Seven Data Points That Explain the ‘Podcast Election’ [Bloomberg]
- Is This The Reason Bezos-Owned WaPo Didn’t Endorse Harris? [The Daily Beast]
- Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster [The New Yorker]
- Time has come for reparations dialogue, Commonwealth heads agree [BBC]
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