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Tom Merritt
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- 28 minutes 3 secondsIndia Wants to Be the Center of AI - DTNS 5208
Plus, Apple may do a week of announcements in March, and Gemini can now create song jingles.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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18 February 2026, 7:59 pm - 35 minutes 10 secondsScientist Can 3D Print in Seconds - DTNS 5207
That’s the good news. The bad news is everything else we have to tell you about RAM.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Andy Beach.
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17 February 2026, 8:28 pm - 33 minutes 30 secondsMeta Might Bring Facial Recognition To Its Ray-Bans - DTNS 5206
Anthropic just raised $30 billion as it preps for a possible IPO later this year, and the Apple Vision Pro finally gets a native YouTube app with offline downloads.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
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13 February 2026, 8:01 pm - 31 minutes 33 secondsEveryone Agrees That Sony’s New Earbuds Rock - DTNS 5205
The rest of the news is people in the tech world jockeying for political advantage.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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12 February 2026, 7:37 pm - 29 minutes 43 secondsAI Builds Itself — And Might Be Coming for Your Job - DTNS 5204
It wrote that headline for us after all. One dev thinks he knows what we all need to do.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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11 February 2026, 7:59 pm - 31 minutes 33 secondsSpotify Wrapped Was a Raging Success - DTNS 5203
Alphabet is selling 100-year bonds to fund its data-center priorities while sitting on $100 billion in cash, and Justin Robert Young explains a new bipartisan AI copyright transparency bill.
Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Justin Robert Young.
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10 February 2026, 8:14 pm - 31 minutes 5 secondsFree the Lyrics YouTube - DTNS 5202
Plus, science says AI is good at brain scans, too good at making you more productive, and not great at helping you with your medical condition.
Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood
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9 February 2026, 7:55 pm - 28 minutes 48 secondsAnthropic Releases Opus 4.6, Software Stocks Tumble Again - DTNS 5201
Waymo is training its fleet on edge case driving scenarios with DeepMind's Genie 3, and TikTok might have to change its infinite scroll behavior to address health concerns in the EU.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.
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6 February 2026, 8:01 pm - 28 minutes 14 secondsWhy Google Won’t Talk About Apple
It’s not a conspiracy. We don’t think anyway. Plus, RAMageddon expands to take down the Steam Machine and NVIDIA GPUs.
Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao
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5 February 2026, 7:27 pm - 21 minutes 11 secondsAMD Promises You'll Get a New Xbox Next Year - DTNS 5199
Plus, Anthropic runs an ad to throw shade on running ads.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane
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4 February 2026, 7:23 pm - 30 minutes 39 secondsSpaceX Merges with xAI and X - DTNS 5198
The Nintendo Switch is officially the company's best-selling console, and Firefox will get an AI kill-switch feature in the next version of its browser later this month.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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