This Week in Google

Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models
Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi
We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.
When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.
Say Hello to the Internet of AI
The greatest capital misallocation in history?
AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
Academy announces major overhaul to rules
AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses
The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art
Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'
He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Empty Screenings
Furwall by Ollie Wagner
DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet
The Python Hunt
News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content
Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive
Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page
Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Troy Hunt
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Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware matters more than ever—and what's at risk if we don't.
Alphabet tops Q1 estimates on strong Google Cloud growth
Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?
OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft
Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for 'any lawful government purpose'
Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared
OpenAI Set to Redefine Smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare Key to Its AI Agent Phone
Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race - Fast Company
Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
Generative AI vegetarianism
To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
* Chloe vs. History
Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
noscroll
Felvidek
Amazon's AI product podcasts
64″D Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber
Timmy's rescue
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Nirav Patel
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Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.
CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning
Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)
Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell
Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership
SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding
Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services
Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI
Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War
AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too
Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
This pasta sauce wants to record your family
LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
Depths of Wikipedia
GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.
Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
Jeff's Gemini happy ending
The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost
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When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.
Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model
Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work
OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft
The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read
Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label
Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development
Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators
Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'
Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella
I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?
Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount
OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'
I/O schedule
Haunted Paper Toys
Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now
DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS
TRAIN JAZZ
The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Craig Mod
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A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this technology escapes the lab.
Claude Mythos Preview System Card - Claude Mythos Preview System Card.pdf
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
Meta Employees Vie for AI 'Token Legend' Status
Meta releases new model for Social Media "Muse Spark"
Why OpenAI's Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy
How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?
Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds
How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
The back story behind the first "$1.8 Billion" dollar "AI Company"
It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling
Cloudflare builds what it calls the successor to WordPress
JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman
Mvidia
Old NYC records
Basketball is.... good?
QVC, HSN cable networks face Chapter 11, insolvency
AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Daniel Miessler
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What happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find out how Every is challenging the boundaries between tech and culture and why even seasoned journalists are wrestling with these tools.
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
(Il)Legal Python Port
Claude Code Unpacked
Spinner Verbs
RANK SPECULATION: Capybara cost - AI haves and have nots. And whither spud?
Another supply chain attack on NPM
OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors
SpaceX Has Filed Confidentially for IPO Ahead of AI Rivals
Gmail rolling out AI Inbox beta for AI Ultra subscribers
You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago
Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance
EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state
Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda
15% of Americans say they'd be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll
More Than Half of US Says AI Likely to Harm Them, Poll Finds
The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
'Most People Don't Enjoy Their Jobs:' Perplexity CEO Says AI Layoffs Are Chance To Launch AI-Powered Ventures
Biggest AI conference traps researchers, presuming AI as cheating
An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
Obsolete Sounds
The oldest job in journalism: New York Post 'runners' defy AI
A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Kate Lee
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Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a journalist, flagging what's truly new and revealing the patterns that matter. If you want to stay several steps ahead in the AI race, this episode is a must-listen.
Malware autodownloaded by AI agents
Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was "inevitable" on its apps
We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.
TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
Apple Can 'Distill' Google's Big Gemini Model
Apple Plans AI Reboot With Siri App, New Look and 'Ask Siri' Button in iOS 27
Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace
A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using
Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies
Jury finds Elon Musk guilty of defrauding Twitter investors [U]
Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80
AI Doc trailer
reflect — Time-Travel Reflection for Obsidian
Esoteric Ebb
Butthole
Regex Blaster
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence.
Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software
Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails
Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere
Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding
Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse
Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw
Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI
Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for
both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat
Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
OpenAI, Musk and Focus
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model
Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze
Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race
Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot
AI Agent Hacks McKinsey
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity
AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion
A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case
Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report
Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot
Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak.
I tried BigArch. A big mess.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
Guest: Rumman Chowdhury
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Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.
OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns
ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy
OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud
Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal
BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks
OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot
OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again
OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community
Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years
Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips
Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
Where did you think the training data was coming from?
You could be an influencer without even realizing it
Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots
Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer
A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"
AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more
William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity
YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company
ET Fall Preview 1994
Payphone Go
This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day
Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Guy Kawasaki
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A principled stand by an underdog AI company ignites a mass migration of users, shakes up Silicon Valley talent wars, and leaves even the tech giants recalculating their moves. Hear how one weekend suddenly redrew the lines on ethics, leadership, and who controls the future of AI.
Interview with Dan Patterson of Blackbird.ai
Stratechery: Anthropic and Alignment
SAMA's prevaricating, panicked posts
Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout
Amazon says drone strikes damaged 3 facilities in UAE and Bahrain
Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
Because Leo isn't here...
Mark Zuckerberg's $170 Million Mansion Buy Breaks Miami Price Records
Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First
Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau
Co-Host: Jason Hiner
Guest: Dan Patterson
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What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.
Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight
Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans
My first vibe coding project!
Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals
IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera
ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics
"Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"
Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
You can now make Alexa's AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
Claude Remote-Control
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando
AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot
Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself
Men 'yell' at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women
It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'—and It's No Joke
I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak
This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby
Famous Signatures Through History
Finally got a Fujifilm!
I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay
Jeff's new friends
How far back in time can you understand English?
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jeff Atwood
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OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499
Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3
Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science
Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment
An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words
I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.
Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs
AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems
Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story
Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories
Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting
DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
ai;dr
I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal
Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent
Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini
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Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work.
Something Big Is Happening
Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech
Google's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
OpenAI's Meta makeover
ChatGPT's deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports
Alexa+, Amazon's AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.
Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
AI didn't kill customer support. It's rebuilding it
Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters
most for their kids.
A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study
HBR: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis
Medicare's new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here's why it's risky
Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps
The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt
Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine's Day messages a good idea?
As Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They're Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable
YouTube Argues It Isn't Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas
Understanding Neural Network, Visually
Leo's AI Journey
The TIMELINE
TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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he podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact.
Anthropic's Move Into Legal Is Sinking Data Services Stocks
Data centers in space makes no sense
The hitchhiker's guide to Musk's SpaceX memo
Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear - Nature
OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month
Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman
Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features
Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit
An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account
Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers
Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker
Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut
Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe
The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph
The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys
Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steve Yegge
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Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.
State of Mozilla 2025/26
Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash
Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini
Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen
I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
Proof of Corn
Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.
China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says
How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence
Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models
Claude's new constitution
"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Mark Surman
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Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.
Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year
Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus
Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status'
Claude's new constitution
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Thomas Haigh
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Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Claude Code
Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools
Introducing Cowork
"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars
Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin
Creepy Link
Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use
Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue
X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture
Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
Postal Arbitrage
New protein tests
The Traitors Season 4
WikiFlix
MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms
'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Craig Silverman
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Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?
NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images
Introducing ChatGPT Health
'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic
Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism
The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all
2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs
Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"
Stanford's AI class on YouTube
Tamiflu
Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere)
Happy birthday Nic Cage
Floor796
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jason Hiner
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Our interviews with:
Ray Kurzweil
Alex Hanna
Emily Bender
Mike Masnick
Pliny the Liberator
Kevin Kelly
Host: Leo Laporte
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Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.
CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI
Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?
Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI - Slashdot
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal
This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029
When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
Simulating Life Paths with Digital Twins: AI-Generated Future Selves Influence Decision-Making and Expand Human Choice
The worst person in tech bracket
Banned fonts
Subway bagel rats
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: CJ Trowbridge
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