This Week in Google

Is the AI gold rush running on shaky ground? Get the inside story on Anthropic's blockbuster IPO, massive compute bets, and why some insiders think the industry's economics just don't add up.
Anthropic's IPO S-1 Spells Out a Future of Promise and Peril
DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
(Marissa Meyer) Maybe We All Need an A.I. Wife
Whoops: Meta's Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts Of Super-Sensitive User Data
Everybody is freaking out over the NYTimes adding AI to the Cooking app
Wikipedia but only for things a half hour walk away from you
Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down
"WSJ: The Bull Case for AI Armageddon
For investors mulling the Anthropic share offering, a 10% chance of extinction may be a 90% win for your portfolio"
Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau
Co-Host: Jason Hiner
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From AI-generated Halloween scares to personal assistants that just won't quit, the age of at-home intelligence is here. But with each new feature, your privacy, security, and digital autonomy hang in the balance.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Meta's Muse AI agent hits 10.9 million downloads as ChatGPT slides 25%
Released This Week : Flux 3 Image Klein (Open Weights)
"Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date"
Video on the DSX Pod starting at 30:40
What if we've misunderstood how AI thinks?
First large‑scale agentic cyberattack on OpenCode
AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
German Court Rules Google Earth is "Spying" on People by Publishing Aerial Photos of Their Homes
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers
Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy
Anthropic S-1
Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner Bros. Bid
Bill Gross's AI Tool Could Supercharge the Number of Startups
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests
Craig Newmark AMA
A new SubwayTakes star rises: Debbie
How SubwayTakes's First Spinoff Star Outwitted Conan
Some final words on Foursquare.
Squad
Editors Note: Jason Hiner's site is The Deep View, not the Deep Think. Sorry Jason!
Hosts: Louis Maresca, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.
Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
(11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
Muse Wonder
OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math
GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers
Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI
Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'
Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent
Cupertino
Zuck's beer face
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Martin Woodward
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From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their actions matters more than ever.
AMistral CEO interview (use Translate)
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Profile of Mark Zuckerberg
Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999
Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played
They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue
AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
Google announces SynthID Detector
Fortune headline: "I wrote The Future of Truth, and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes. I've chosen to fight back."
Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.
How A.I. Can Boost Democracy
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Normal Tools
Gina's Make Great Software
Paul Theroux: True North
Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year

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Guest: Spencer Thompson
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What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.
DevDay 2026 Recap
Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
(7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X
OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
"I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang
Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds
Mac-mini-powered Cray
Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears
SF Currently
This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York
Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich
Taco Bell finder
Where to watch the Musk doc
Jeff's book talk in Mass.

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Guest: Mike Gannotti
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Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep missing.
Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety
MetaConnect on during the show
Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more
Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series
Google CC
I'm Upping My P(Doom)
Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud
Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy
On 'Cupertino,' Creators of the 'The Good Wife' Go to Silicon Valley
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Patrick Hillmann
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Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.
Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI
Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog
Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet
(4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X
Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine
Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'
They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
Guest: Lon Seidman
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As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought.
Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears
An Alien Mind
Muse - Your Personal AI Agent
Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation's Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools
Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls on Trial in October Movie Pileup
chat jimmy
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent
Guest: Matthew Cassinelli
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Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.
Judge Rules on Google Ads Case
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk
OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns
Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?
OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera
Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai
YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links
Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search
I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help
MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality
Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more
(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Unusual Suspects
Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers
Archived video
CS majors down 8.4% or 53k
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg
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With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?
(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X
Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs
Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content
Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'
(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X
Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.
Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch
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Co-Host: Christina Warren
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Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse.
Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter
(272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X
If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI
Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow
Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside
So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?
LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T
New Chinese model adds to AI competition
What happens to what you share with AI
Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training
Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
the wikipedia guessing game
Okay Spielberg TikTok
At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer
SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Dan O'Dowd
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Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.
How Claude marks AI-generated content
Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone
Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet
OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300
Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion
High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating
Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Riot Platforms
US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon
Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language
Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive
Wired: Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
"* David Corn: I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad."
Yea or Nay
BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: "F*** This"
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Nicholas De Leon
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Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Altman says he supports AI regulation
Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC
White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
The Red-Hot Book at the Center of an AI Mystery
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
The Autonomous Press - Numbered Papers
Musk's latest ridiculous prediction: Optimus better than human surgeons in 4 years
The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Phillip Shoemaker
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Business Insider founder Henry Blodgett unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this.
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting U.S. AI
Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient"
Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear
The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection
Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
DeepMind paper says LLMs won't be good at scientific discovery: LLMs can't jump
Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models
An ESP32 based plane radar
The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us
prompt-injection resumes
The McLuhan Marshalling Machine
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Henry Blodget
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An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible
AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture
Quoting Sam Altman
Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball
Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order
Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains
Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities'
Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped
Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
Cyclospora all the time
Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price
" Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert"
John C. Dvorak dies at age 80
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Guest: Nate B. Jones
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With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them.
Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole trade Secrets
Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days
White House details 'Gold Eagle' clearinghouse for AI cyber threats
Introducing GPT-Live
From Chatbot to Command Center
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)
Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness
OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.
We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content
White House not ruling out action on open-source AI models
The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI - WSJ
Super Dario: One More Week
How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev
History of LLMs: Complete Timeline & Evolution (1950-2026)
No, You Shouldn't Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora
Google creator profiles
Dust jacket

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Guest: Raffi Krikorian
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Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better.
OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped
Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us
Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment
Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame
Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies
A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat
Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders
Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor'
MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand
lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
GuideAlong
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Ian Bogost
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Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.
Fable is Back!
Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".
China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design
Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack
Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls
Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms
SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device
* Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028
US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
* Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring
Political Bias in AI
Om Malik, 1966-2026
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
My post: California's squandered opportunity
Palantir coat
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan
Guest: Chris Potts
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Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators.
Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute
Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order
Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years
Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
Identity verification on Claude
Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins
Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids
YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership
OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos
Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses
Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman.
Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher
AI Economics for Dummies
We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I.
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch
UK TV to be turned off
Computer History Museum's AI Archive
Airport Dad
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis
Guest: Olivier Sylvain
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The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation.
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense
Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI
The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
(21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸" / X
Anthropic's Safety Superpower
Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact
The Anthropic 'Fable' saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora's box.
Exclusive: OpenAI Preps New AI Model, Expects To Go Public 'Within the Next Year'
Microsoft CEO warns that a few AI winners could destroy 'entire industries'
SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal to power AI coding push
DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is 'Vital' for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
AI Deepfakes Are Getting Weirder and Harder to Spot in the Midterms
UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots
Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
Discover — FablePool
Isometric NYC
Encrypted Spaces
Florida man
Knick Knacks
Bird window
Ode to Orange Seats
Bending Spoons--owner of AOL, Eventbrite, Vimeo, Komoot, WeTransfer, Evernote, MeetUp, Streamyard, Hopin, Splice, and Brightcove--to IPO
Tim Ferris: Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Alex Stamos
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