This Week in Google

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
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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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Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The future isn't just smarter models, but everyday tech that learns exactly how you work.
• Hermes AI agent's launch, mass adoption, and personalized capabilities
• Open source vs. proprietary AI: model access, privacy, and funding hurdles
• Apple's next-gen Siri and agentic platform ambitions unpacked
• Noose Research model development, Nvidia partnerships, and training challenges
• The risk of an "AI underclass" and ethics in model distribution
• Anthropic's Fable release: strict guardrails, silent model downgrades, and open source tensions
• Local models vs. cloud LLMs: cost, effectiveness, and practical tuning
• Community-driven iterating: Hermes' rapid product evolution and user obsession
• Vatican's AI encyclical: church perspectives on AI, morality, and the common good
• AGI arrival debate: economic thresholds, capabilities, and human uniqueness
• The reality of AI hallucinations, agent accuracy, and responsible usage
• Legal fallout over AI-generated hallucinations in court filings
• AI's growing role in Hollywood contracts and labor protections
• Google's Gemini 3 live translation impresses but raises privacy flags
• German courts label Google AI overviews as publisher speech, liability looms
• AI detection tools like Pangram face scrutiny in real-world writing and education
• Google Dream Beans app tests the limits of digital personal recommendations
• Picks of the Week: Reddit AMA, Dream Beans, basketball and retro gaming, research critiques
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle
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AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next generation of stories.
AThis is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark
Anthropic has officially filed to go public
Google Seeks $80 Billion for AI Buildout; Berkshire Will Buy $10 Billion Stake
Amazon's AI jackpot: Its $8 billion Anthropic holdings are now worth $74 billion
Taking a trip this summer? Beware. These travel scams are now turbocharged by AI
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
AI info visualization -- click on anything for more
cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.
wander
'The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.' Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?
Hell Grind trailer
Martin Scorsese accused of 'throwing artists under bus' with AI storyboards
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan
Guest: Robert Tercek
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Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?
The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity
Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search
There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice
White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI
Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing
Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model
Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order
I'm tired of talking to AI
In Memoriam: Don Newhouse
Picks of the Week:
KMart Muzak
Infinite Jeffs
isaiprofitable.com
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
Guest: Rick Sammon
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Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.
Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter
Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO
Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget
Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo
(21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X
Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup
Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'
AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers
Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute
We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents
What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing
'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize
Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake
Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything
Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
The great digital media valuation collapse
Sperm racing
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Frederic Rivain
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British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.
Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
Students boo AI at commencement: video
Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
(20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
Internet Archive Switzerland
Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
Hallucinopedia
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
Sand shortage

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker
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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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