Startup Chaos, Breaking Ticketmaster, Ultrasonic Coffee • Spotify says it will refund Car Thing purchases  • VC Says "Chaos" Coming for Startups, Ads, and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web • Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages  • Who's having kids?  • The panel discusses Ticketmaster  • T-Mobile to acquire most of U.S. Cellular in $4.4 billion deal; U.S. Cellular shares surge  • Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.  • Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack  • ‘Like drinking a music festival’: this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good?  • Inside the scramble to ‘prebunk’ election misinformation before it takes hold  • TikTok Pins Its Hopes on Trump to Avoid Ban  • How a Self-Published Book, ‘The Shadow Work Journal,’ Became a Best Seller  • Twitch streamers host a fundraiser for Palestinians.  • The IRS is making its free Turbo Tax alternative permanent  • Tribeca to Screen AI-Generated Short Films Created by OpenAI's Sora  • North Korea says it will stop sending trash balloons as South Korea vows strong retaliation  • Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified  • Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Alex Kantrowitz, Nicholas De Leon, and Emily Dreibelbis This Week in Tech episode 982 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/982 Sponsors: • IntouchCX.com/twit • wix.com/studio • eufy.com • mintmobile.com/twit • lookout.com Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: https://twit.tv/ https://twitter.com/TWiT https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv #ai #irs #tmobile About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, Windows Weekly, Security Now, and more