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On Wednesday, President Biden signed a bill into law that would force the sale of TikTok or ban the app outright. We explain how this came together, when just a few weeks ago it seemed unlikely to happen, and what legal challenges the law will face next. Then we check on Tesla’s very bad year and what’s next for the company after this week’s awful quarterly earnings report. Finally, to boldly support tech where tech has never been supported before: Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab try to fix a chip malfunction from 15 billion miles away.

Guests:

• Andrew Hawkins, Transportation Editor at The Verge
• Todd Barber, Propulsion Engineer at Jet Propulsion Lab

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• ‘Thunder Run’: Behind Lawmakers’ Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
• Tesla’s in its flop era
• NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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Todays show:

Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news and demos including, Adam Schiff and the new bill to force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art (9:03), Udio the recent AI music creator catching a lot of hype (17:48), the AI dictation power of Aqua (39:10), and more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason to dive into this weeks AI news and demos.

(4:02) AI News: Meta, Google and Intel all launched chips this week.

(9:03) Adam Schiff and the new bill to force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art

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(17:48) Sunny demos Udio - the recent AI music creator catching a lot of hype.

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(20:56) Sunny and Jason further explore Udio and discuss the copyright issues around AI models.

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(36:31) Sunny creates a song with Udio about Jason’s passion for copyright laws.

(39:10) Sunny demos Aqua.

(45:36) Sunny demos SWE-Agent

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LINKS:

Check out Udio: https://www.udio.com/

Rolling Stone article on Udio: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/

Check out Aqua: https://withaqua.com/

Check out SWE-Agent: https://swe-agent.com/demo

Meta’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1778078194345955765

Google’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1777654095601348775

Intel’s new chip news: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1777725152102699026

Article on Adam Schiff introducing new bill: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/09/artificial-intelligence-bill-copyright-art

Check out statmuse: https://www.statmuse.com/

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