This Week in Google

Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.

• Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn
• Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs
• OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
• Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic
• Microsoft's Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
• Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
• A Definition of AGI
  OpenAI Finalizes Corporate Restructuring, Gives Microsoft 27% Stake and Technology Access Until 2032 - Slashdot
• This mom's son was asking Tesla's Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
• Nvidia Becomes World's First $5 Trillion Company - Slashdot
• Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years
• How Realistic is OpenAI's 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?
• Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny
• Zenni's Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
• Alphabet earnings
• Meta earnings
• You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Actually Is
• Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
• AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
• Casio's Fluffy AI Robot Squeaked Its Way Into My Heart
• For the sake of the show, I will suffer this torture -jj
• Machine Olfaction and Embedded AI Are Shaping the New Global Sensing Industry
• A silly little photoshoot with your friends
• Bugonia
• Celebrating 25 years of Google Ads
• The Data Is In: The Washington Post Can't Replace Its "TikTok Guy"
• Peak screen?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Alan Cowen

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Is the future of artificial intelligence running on your desk instead of in massive data centers? This episode breaks down how Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's new ZGX Nano could let anyone fine-tune jaw-dropping language models at home—and why privacy, cost, and control are suddenly up for grabs.

• Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
• Leo... AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows
• The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
• OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA
• Is Andrej Karpathy Right About Overhyped AI?
• Happy 18th Birthday to None Pizza Left Beef
• Originality.ai

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mike Elgan

Guests: Joey de Villa and Andrew Hawthorn

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Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.

• TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
• AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
• (20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have" / X
• The AI water issue is fake
• California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
• Walmart Announces It Will Sell Products Through ChatGPT's Instant Checkout
• Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead
• AI is changing how we quantify pain
• Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows
• Social media must warn users of 'profound' health risks under new California law
• Google will let friends help you recover an account
• AI content on the net
• AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet
• Karpathy tweet
• Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI
• Sal Khan is the new TED
• You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
• Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos.
• Paper: Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
• THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI
• A Twitch streamer gave birth live, with Twitch's CEO in the chat
• DirecTV will soon bring AI ads to your screensaver
• Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime
• What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp?
• Inherently funny word
• Boah, Bahn!
• A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

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From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.

• No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
• ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
• OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
• Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot
• Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems
• Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report
• Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries
• America is now one big bet on AI
• The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI
• Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year
• Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy
• A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls
• Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits
• Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry
• CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?
• Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
• Have we passed peak social media?
• As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain
• OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars
• Google CodeMender
• Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
• Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
• Our friend Glenn

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.

• Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• It's time to prepare for AI personhood
• Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: "She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being"
• Link to the podslop podcasts
• California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law
• Sen. Mark Kelly's big plan for an AI future isn't ambitious enough
• ** DeepMind defines levels of AGI
• Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
• AI passed the hardest CFA test in minutes
• ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart's referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents
• Amazon event live blog: we're here for new Echos, Kindles, and more
• Introducing ChatGPT Pulse | OpenAI
• Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant
• That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
• Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement
• It's official: Google says the Android and ChromeOS merger is coming 'next year'
• Blippo+
• Guardian sliders
• Ive's $4,800 lantern

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Raiza Martin

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Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.

• Interview with Steven Levy
• Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
• Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
• OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
• Can We Afford AI?
• Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
• China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
• Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
• Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
• Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
• * "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
• ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
• The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
• Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
• The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
• More! Shrimp!
• Wounded robots
• Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Levy

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With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions and dives into what your future with "intelligent machines" might actually look like—waffles and all.

• Interview with Nick Foster
• AI's $344 Billion 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile
• Yann LeCun's mondo preso
• Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Data Annotation Workers
• Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday
• The OpenAI paper on usage
• Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
• ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification
• Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
• A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model
• I Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
• How an AI Giant Became Obsessed With an Albino Alligator
• Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower healthcare costs
• The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
• Rest of World: A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over
• How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
• Roadwarden
• David Lynch's quirky house

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nick Foster

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AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts."

• Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
• Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle
• AI Watchdog
• At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
• Most Scraped Websites of 2025
• AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.
• Alterego
• I Hate My Friend
• R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
• AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot
• Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?
• OpenAI's post on the paper
• Gina Trappani starts a new blog
• Schnitzel press
• NFL Debut on YouTube Draws 17.3 Million
• Set a two TikTok toilet limit to reduce haemorrhoid risk, doctors advise"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Harper Reed

Guests: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

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Go behind the curtain at OpenAI as bestselling author Karen Hao shares stories of infighting, ego, and shifting agendas. Find out why even OpenAI's security had her face on alert during her investigation.

• Karen Hao reveals OpenAI's secretive culture and early ambitions
• OpenAI's shifting leadership and transparency: from nonprofit roots to Big Tech power
• Defining AGI: moving goalposts, internal rifts, and philosophy debates
• OpenAI's founders dissected: Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever's styles and motives
• Critiquing the AI industry's resource grabs and "AI imperialism"
• How commercialization narrowed AI research and the dominance of transformers
• China's AI threat as Silicon Valley's favorite justification, debunked
• Karen Hao details reporting process and boardroom chaos at OpenAI
• GPT-5 skepticism: raised expectations, lackluster reality, and demo fatigue
• Karen Hao's bottom line: AI's current trajectory isn't inevitable — pushback is needed
• Harper Reed shares vibe coding workflows using Claude Code

• AI commoditization—why all major models start to feel the same

• Western vs. Chinese open-source models and global AI power shifts

• Google antitrust ruling: AI's rise dissolves traditional search monopoly
• "Algorithm movies" spark debate over art, entertainment, and AI's creative impact

• Meta's AI talent grab backfires amid exits and cash-fueled drama
• Anthropic's "historic" author settlement likely cements fair use for AI training

• DIY facial recognition: Citizen activists unmask ICE using AI tools

• Picks: Byte Magazine's 50th, AI werewolf games, Berghain bouncer AI test, and arthouse film
  "Perfect Days"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Harper Reed

Guest: Karen Hao

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• Interview with M.G. Siegler.
• Google improves Gemini AI image editing with 'Nano Banana' model.
• THIS is why large language models can understand the world.
• Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs.
• Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5.
• Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.
• We must build AI for people; not to be a person.
• AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization.
• AI robots are helping South Korea's seniors feel less alone.
• College student's "time travel" AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history.
• Forget Uber Eats—Chipotle's latest delivery option might shock you.
• There are two types of dishwasher people.
• Would you go on a tour of your local Amazon warehouse?
• Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content.
• Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated 'freelancer'.
• The South Slope Derby.
• Checking in on the Internet Roadtrip.
• TikTok.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: M.G. Siegler

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• AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
• China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
• US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
• Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
• The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
• AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
• Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble
• Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?
• Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
• Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.
• 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
• Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
• How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
• YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
• Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
• So ... is AI writing any good?
• Project Indigo
• We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Rich Skrenta

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• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
• Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons
• David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X
• A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)
• Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise
• Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn
• Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over
• Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network
• What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
• Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
• Two-mile suspension bridge
• Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Tulsee Doshi

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• Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi
• OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
• Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
• Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)
• Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop
• Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data
• Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry
• AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
• Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
• The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
• A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.
• When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....
• AI vegans
• Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code
• Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of
• Good guy humpback whales

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Vlad Prelovac

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• Interview with Ian Krietzberg
• Leo's shows off his new AI toys
• Paris unveils her new desk setup
• Personal Superintelligence
• You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.
• Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang
• Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content
• Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip
• The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models
• My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX
• Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk
• Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster
• Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out
• TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show
• This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
• JC makes wine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Krietzberg

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• Interview with Steven Johnson
• Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch
• (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X
• Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
  OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
  SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
• (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X
• It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
• Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
• Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces
• A new study just upended AI safety
• 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
• Tesla results
• Total Party Kill
• Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen
• Attack of the clever crows

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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• Interview with Anil Dash
• egirl Grok x Claude
• Zuckerberg announces Meta's new AI data centers for superintelligence
• Meta Hires Two More OpenAI Researchers
• Reflections on OpenAI
• RSS is (not) dead (yet) (NED #3) – audra mcnamee
• Perplexity AI browser
• Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
• Stewart Holbrook: Portland Mythmaker
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Fun With A.I.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Anil Dash

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• Interview with Mike Masnick
• Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
• The one secret to using genAI to boost your brain
• Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X
• How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI
• As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT
• (21) Josh Woodward on X: "The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://t.co/uPa0p0KQZu" / X
• Chinese robot dog nears Usain Bolt speed, breaks global record
• Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
• A.I.'s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck)
• A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
• Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
• Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
• Zitron: OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
• Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
• Grammarly Authorship
• CalMatters Digital Democracy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Mike Masnick

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• Interview with Board Member of Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming
• My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
• Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases
• How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It's Not Writing Articles)
• Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you
• The Internet Needs Sex
• Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws
• Adam Thierer reacts
• Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot
• The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners
• People are using AI to 'sit' with them while they trip on psychedelics
• China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match
• AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions
• AI helps find formula for paint to keep buildings cooler
• Microsoft's New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy - Slashdot
• It's Known as 'The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses
• The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence
• We used Veo to animate archive photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum
• G/O Media Winds Down by Selling Kotaku, One of Its Last Sites
• Roadside America Dot Com
• Cluely pitches itself as undectable AI
• Lorde's new album: Virgin
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: John Graham-Cumming

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• Interview with Richard Gingras
• Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books
• Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It
• Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI
• Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch
• OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models
• My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
• Is AI the End of Dating Apps?
• Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI?
• gist.ai
• Jeff talks about the new AI Chromebook
• Veo sinkhole videos
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• Tennis robot
• The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum
• Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI
• Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
• Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition
• Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'
• OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
• They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
• Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition
• Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon
• Inside the AI Party at the End of the World
• AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games
• L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts
• They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
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