AI giants are battling not just in code, but in politics, with behind-the-scenes lobbying, strategic naming, and rumors of blockbuster deals at the heart of this week’s wildest tech stories. Get the inside scoop on who’s pulling the strings. • Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge • Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO • Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says • Elon Musk’s Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla • Anthropic's latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests • Google’s Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI • Google’s Secret Warrant Fight Over DOJ Pipe Bomb Probe Revealed • The UK Places a Sweeping Ban on Social Media for Kids Under 16 • Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits • Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones • Snap Launches $2,195 Specs, Declaring Glasses the Next Computer • Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it • Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans • Nothing cancels this year’s CMF phone due to RAM prices • The AI IPO boom is different • Joshua Baer, Capital Factory Founder, Dies in Laredo Plane Crash - RuntimeWire • Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Iain Thomson, Owen Thomas, and Doc Rock This Week in Tech episode 1089 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1089 Sponsors: • http://shopify.com/twit • Simply CX • http://ethos.com/twit • http://box.com/AI • http://zscaler.com/security Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twittok LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twit-llc 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, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.