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Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast, where I’m standing in for Darrell while he’s honeymooning with his lady love. This week, I sat down with Amanda Silberling and Mary Ann Azevedo to talk through some of their interesting stories.

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News articles from the episode: 

• Hack the planet: Lorenzo writes a great story about how gamers are fixing a video game “taken over” by hackers
• Hello, robot: Aisha reports that Snapchat launched an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT technology
• Broken dishes: Carly reports how Dish was hit by a multiday outage after a reported cyberattack

… and the longer interviews: 

• Musk the Uninclusive: Amanda takes a look at Senator Markey’s letter that calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team
• From stocks to building blocks: Natasha Mascarenhas and Mary Ann Azevedo explore Amazon’s new employee perk that lets employees use their stock to finance home purchases

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