This Week in Tech 956: A Giant Rolling Brick

Cybertruck is out, ChatGPT turns 1, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, NameDrop

• ChatGPT's 1st birthday and mainstream AI adoption
• Microsoft joins OpenAI's board as a non-voting observer
• Pika raises $55 million for AI video generation tool
• Amazon launches Q chatbot service for companies
• Concerns over Q hallucinating responses and leaking data
• Rethinking reactions to Tesla's Cybertruck design
• Police warn about issues with NameDrop social media app
• Why Apple adding RCS may not resolve green vs blue bubbles
• Apple dropping Goldman Sachs as Apple Card issuer
• Inside Spotify Wrapped's annual personalized listening stats
• Fears over Plex exposing users' viewing habits
• Black Friday online sales hit record $9.8 billion in US
• Cyber Monday sales beat estimates at $12.4 billion
• Extreme complexity in rebuilding an ultimate car pinball machine
• Kiss launches digital avatars for virtual concerts

Host: Jason Howell

Guests: Rich DeMuro, Tim Stevens, and Abrar Al-Heeti

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