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Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day... 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.
Disney is making big streaming moves with the new ESPN app and a revamp to Hulu. Then, it’s all basically AI announces. OpenAI’s new open-weight models. Grok’s new spiciness is already generating nudity. A new AI model to identify malicious software autonomously. And Nvidia wants you to know: no back-doors!
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ESPN flagship streaming service to launch Aug. 21 (CNBC)
Hulu App to Be Phased Out as Disney Is ‘Fully Integrating’ Service Into Disney+ (Variety)
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 (Wired)
Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to) (ZDNet)
Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese (VentureBeat)
Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes (The Verge)
Microsoft’s new AI reverse-engineers malware autonomously, marking a shift in cybersecurity (GeekWire)
Nvidia defiant over backdoors and kill switches in GPUs as U.S. mulls tracking requirements — calls them 'permanent flaws' that are 'a gift to hackers' (Tom's Hardware)
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Tech Brew Ride Home
Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day... 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.