TWiT 1089: Robot Butt Crack - Anthropic Banned, But Winning

TWiT 1089: Robot Butt Crack - Anthropic Banned, But Winning

Author: TWiT June 22, 2026 Duration: 3:19:32

AI giants are battling not just in code, but in politics, with behind-the-scenes lobbying, strategic naming, and rumors of blockbuster deals at the heart of this week's wildest tech stories. Get the inside scoop on who's pulling the strings.

  • Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
  • Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
  • Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says
  • Elon Musk's Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
  • Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
  • Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
  • Google's Secret Warrant Fight Over DOJ Pipe Bomb Probe Revealed
  • The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16
  • Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits
  • Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones
  • Snap Launches $2,195 Specs, Declaring Glasses the Next Computer
  • Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it
  • Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
  • Nothing cancels this year's CMF phone due to RAM prices
  • The AI IPO boom is different
  • Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Founder, Dies in Laredo Plane Crash - RuntimeWire
  • Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

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