TWiT 1080: Destroy All Phonorecords - Musk v. Altman, Claude Opus 4.7, & Voyager 1

TWiT 1080: Destroy All Phonorecords - Musk v. Altman, Claude Opus 4.7, & Voyager 1

Author: TWiT April 20, 2026 Duration: 2:48:40

As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.

  • Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos
  • Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
  • You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.
  • Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
  • AI anxiety is turning volatile
  • Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
  • Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
  • Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul
  • The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
  • Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
  • Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
  • Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
  • Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case
  • Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
  • Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
  • Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
  • What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?
  • TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
  • Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
  • It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
  • Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company
  • Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

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