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We Are So Cooked · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Hello, I'm working on a Shonda Rhime style Gray's Anatomy
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  Speaker 1: asked drama about tech journalism, where the central love triangle
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  Speaker 1: will be between me and a pair of polar opposite
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  Speaker 1: quirky AI chatbots.
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  Speaker 2: Will we all hook up or not? I'm accepting donations.
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  Speaker 1: Open Ai' Sora app has hit number one on Apple
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  Speaker 1: US's App Store after launching on iOS on Wednesday, featuring
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  Speaker 1: exclusive access to Sora too, open AI's latest video generation model,
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  Speaker 1: and we clearly weren't the only ones taking notice of
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  Speaker 1: the app. Despite being launched only in the US and
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  Speaker 1: Canada and being invite only, Sora saw fifty six thousand
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  Speaker 1: downloads on its first day, and now it sits ahead
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  Speaker 1: of Google's Gemini and open AI's chat GPT on Apple's
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  Speaker 1: App Store. The app's hype makes a lot of sense
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  Speaker 1: once you get a load of the wild contents its
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  Speaker 1: users are generating. Sora has already been used to deep
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  Speaker 1: fake videos of open ai CEO Sam Alten stealing GPU
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  Speaker 1: some target and as an ou kiddyman will, open Ai
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  Speaker 1: says so has settings that will allow you to stop
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  Speaker 1: others from making unwanted defakes of yourself. Sam has clearly
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  Speaker 1: opened the floodgates. He's into this now. Some journalists are
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  Speaker 1: already calling this new app a fever dream and wondering
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  Speaker 1: if we should stop the slop. Well, I don't see
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  Speaker 1: that happening, considering Bloomberg just reported that open ai has
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  Speaker 1: received a five hundred billion dollar valuation, which puts it
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  Speaker 1: ahead of SpaceX as the world's most valuable private company.
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  Speaker 2: So let them be slop. Let the slop consume you
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  Speaker 2: be one with the slop. Get sloppy.
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  Speaker 1: Google has put out a blog post claiming that sideloading
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  Speaker 1: on Android isn't going anywhere. Guys, for real, please calm down.
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  Speaker 1: About a month ago, it came out that Google would
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  Speaker 1: be requiring developer verification for apps outside the Google Play Store,
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  Speaker 1: which has Android users concerned about the ability to sideload
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  Speaker 1: apps that's installing them from a third party or non
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  Speaker 1: official source. Well, in their blog post, mister Google says
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  Speaker 1: that the developer verification is meant to protect users before,
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  Speaker 1: not limit choice. There'll be a free developer account for teachers, students,
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  Speaker 1: and hobbinists, but these accounts would likely have greater limits
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  Speaker 1: on how many devices can download their apps.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, this means that Google will be able.
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  Speaker 1: To control how broad a third party's apps reach is,
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  Speaker 1: and they will also get to collect the data of
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  Speaker 1: those creating developer accounts. Ultimately, like Google says, sideloarding isn't
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  Speaker 1: going away, but it's sort of transforming into something different.
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  Speaker 1: Something may be worse, probably worse. We can still be mad.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can still be mad. Apple has removed
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  Speaker 1: ice block and immigration enforcement tracking app from the app store.
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  Speaker 1: US Attorney General Pambondi told Fox News that pressure was
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  Speaker 1: applied on Apple to take down the app, which allows
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  Speaker 1: users to monitor the movement of immigration enforcement officers. Apple
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  Speaker 1: told Business Insider that the app was taken down because
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  Speaker 1: it presented safety risks. Following suit, Google removed a similar
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  Speaker 1: ice tracking app, red Dot, from their play store.
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  Speaker 2: Google told four or four.
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  Speaker 1: Media that these ice spotting apps a high risk of
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  Speaker 1: abuse and describe ice as a vulnerable group, which is
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  Speaker 1: why they elected to remove the app from their store. However,
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  Speaker 1: this whole story seems far from done, as ice Block's
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  Speaker 1: owner Joshua Allen says he's determined to fight Apple's decision,
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  Speaker 1: going as far as to compare his app to speed
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  Speaker 1: trap trackers, which are implemented in many map applications, even
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  Speaker 1: Google's own. I think we got to get a speed
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  Speaker 1: tracker for that guy on his e bike that abated
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  Speaker 1: ice in Chicago the other day. That guy was flying
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  Speaker 2: Com slash tech linked.
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  Speaker 1: In the mid season finale of my Tech News TV drama,
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  Speaker 1: I call it off with both the AI chatbots actually, because.
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  Speaker 2: It's the quick bits that will always have my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Tesla is being sued for the wrongful death of a
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  Speaker 1: pair of college students whose deaths their families claim were
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  Speaker 1: caused by faulty cyber truck door designs. The students were
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  Speaker 1: passengers in the rear seat of a cyber truck that
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  Speaker 1: crashed into a tree before it's battery lit on fire.
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  Speaker 2: The lawsuit claims.
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  Speaker 1: That the rear passenger's injuries were minor, but they died
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  Speaker 1: because of burns and smoking relation when they couldn't find
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  Speaker 1: the cyber truck's manual door releases. To manually open a
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  Speaker 1: cyber truck's back doors, you need to lift a rubber
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  Speaker 1: mat on the bottom of the.
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  Speaker 2: Door storage pocket. Oh god, do.
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  Speaker 1: You need to lift a rubber mat on the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the door's storage pocket and pull a cord underneath.
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  Speaker 1: That does sound needstly complicated, especially in an emergency situation.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sure Elon isn't too worried. He just became
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  Speaker 1: the first person worth oh worth half a trillion dollars
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  Speaker 1: deadly trucks and earning tons of bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Elon's got his priority straight.
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  Speaker 1: Another trillionaire news and Nvidia's issues with sixteen pin GPU
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  Speaker 1: power connector meltdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Might have finally been solved by someone elther than them.
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  Speaker 2: Someone else did it, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Ogua Computer has introduced AMPANL, a tool that connects to
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  Speaker 1: the invited connector and proactively balances the power load by
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  Speaker 1: evenly spreading it across the cable's various little wires. Sadly,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a free solution to what really is a
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  Speaker 1: concerning issue, and the tool costs ninety five dollars. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: One Reddit commenturre astutely.
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  Speaker 1: Observed, I feel like things like this should be kept
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  Speaker 1: in a museum chronicling the downfall of mankind. In this exhibit,
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  Speaker 1: we have a ninety five dollars gadget that you need
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  Speaker 1: to keep your three thousand dollar gadget from self emulating
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  Speaker 1: sick burn. Harvard and MIT physicists just built a quantum
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  Speaker 1: computer that ran continuously for over two hours. I've never
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  Speaker 1: even done that. You might be saying, yourself, what's the
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  Speaker 1: big deal? My computer runs for more than two hours
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  Speaker 1: every day. But this is a huge deal when you
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  Speaker 1: consider that previous record breaking quantum computer run times. We're
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  Speaker 1: just a little over ten seconds I thought I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna say minutes. Quantum computers rely on sub atomic particles
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  Speaker 1: acutely named cubits. It's kind of like quickbits to store
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  Speaker 1: and process data. But these computers lose their cubits in
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  Speaker 1: something called atom laws, which the physicists seem to have
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  Speaker 1: overcome by using an optical conveyor belt and tweezers.
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  Speaker 2: To replace cubits. Is this serious with this new process?
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  Speaker 1: Some of the researchers believe quantum computers that can run
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  Speaker 1: forever might be just three years away. This is such
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  Speaker 1: optimistic news. I love it, But have you seen the
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  Speaker 1: other tech news? Do we have three years? Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: slop will distract us long enough to not destroy ourselves. Slop.
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  Speaker 1: Japan is running out of Asahi super Dry beer as
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  Speaker 1: the company deals with a fallout from a cyber attack.
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  Speaker 1: What a weird sentence. The devastating attack cause a system
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  Speaker 1: outage and force Asahi Group to suspend operations, shutting down
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  Speaker 1: most of its thirty factories. Now, after several days, they've
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  Speaker 1: just begun to take manual orders, visiting customers in person
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  Speaker 1: and taking handwritten orders. Reuter's points out that this is
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  Speaker 1: one in a string of recent cyber attacks hitting global
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  Speaker 1: companies including Jaguar, Land Rover, and Marks and Spencer. Honestly, though,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this is too bad. It gives Japanese
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  Speaker 1: salary men an opportunity to go home to their families
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  Speaker 1: instead of feeling obligated to go out drinking with their
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  Speaker 1: bosses and co workers and paid entertainment. Noma Kai can wait.
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  Speaker 1: Go holl your children. If you have children, you're in Japan.
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  Speaker 1: University of California researchers have made a way to use
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  Speaker 1: computer mice to capture vibrations and convert them into audio data.
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  Speaker 1: In a Tom's Hardware article that's as interesting as it
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  Speaker 1: is scary, the researchers work is summarized as using high
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  Speaker 1: performance optical mice signal processing and machine learning to pick
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  Speaker 1: up what people are saying through their desks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's that kind of odden damn it.
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  Speaker 1: Mice with a DEPI of twenty thousand or above are
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable to this attack, and it doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: a complex virus that exploits them. It can be as
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  Speaker 1: simple as a creative app or a video game that
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  Speaker 1: asks for frequent mouse data, which can then be collected
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  Speaker 1: and processed come on, man, none of.
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  Speaker 2: This is as chill as I thought it would be.
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  Speaker 2: It's Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly not as cute as real life trained mouse
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  Speaker 1: with a microphone. You know what would be that cute though,
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  Speaker 1: if you guys just came back on Monday and watched
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  Speaker 1: more tech news. I'm gonna keep working on my TV drama.
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  Speaker 1: Those devastating season finale twists aren't gonna write themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Spoiler alert.
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  Speaker 1: One of the chatbots gets amnesia after a big software update.
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  Speaker 1: Let's gift I thought you were gonna say, gets pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: It threw off my tone, but it's a crazy world.