Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.

CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist

Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands

News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell

Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion

Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding

Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI

Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War

AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too

Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less

New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Depths of Wikipedia

GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.

Is Your Site Agent-Ready?

Jeff's Gemini happy ending

The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost

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When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters

Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed

Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work

OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft

The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read

Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool

Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label

Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch

Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators

Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings

Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'

Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface

After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI

Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI

'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For

AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella

I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?

Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'

I/O schedule

Haunted Paper Toys

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now

DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS

TRAIN JAZZ

The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Mod

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A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this technology escapes the lab.

Claude Mythos Preview System Card - Claude Mythos Preview System Card.pdf

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

Meta Employees Vie for AI 'Token Legend' Status

Meta releases new model for Social Media "Muse Spark"

Why OpenAI's Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy

How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?

Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds

How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

The back story behind the first "$1.8 Billion" dollar "AI Company"

It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

Cloudflare builds what it calls the successor to WordPress

JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman

Mvidia

Old NYC records

Basketball is.... good?

QVC, HSN cable networks face Chapter 11, insolvency

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Daniel Miessler

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What happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find out how Every is challenging the boundaries between tech and culture and why even seasoned journalists are wrestling with these tools.

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

(Il)Legal Python Port

Claude Code Unpacked

Spinner Verbs

RANK SPECULATION: Capybara cost - AI haves and have nots. And whither spud?

Another supply chain attack on NPM

OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors

SpaceX Has Filed Confidentially for IPO Ahead of AI Rivals

Gmail rolling out AI Inbox beta for AI Ultra subscribers

You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago

Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance

EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state

Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda

15% of Americans say they'd be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll

More Than Half of US Says AI Likely to Harm Them, Poll Finds

The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want

'Most People Don't Enjoy Their Jobs:' Perplexity CEO Says AI Layoffs Are Chance To Launch AI-Powered Ventures

Biggest AI conference traps researchers, presuming AI as cheating

An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.

Obsolete Sounds

The oldest job in journalism: New York Post 'runners' defy AI

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kate Lee

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Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a journalist, flagging what's truly new and revealing the patterns that matter. If you want to stay several steps ahead in the AI race, this episode is a must-listen.

Malware autodownloaded by AI agents

Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was "inevitable" on its apps

We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

Apple Can 'Distill' Google's Big Gemini Model

Apple Plans AI Reboot With Siri App, New Look and 'Ask Siri' Button in iOS 27

Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic

A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace

A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using

Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies

Jury finds Elon Musk guilty of defrauding Twitter investors [U]

Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80

AI Doc trailer

reflect — Time-Travel Reflection for Obsidian

Esoteric Ebb

Butthole

Regex Blaster

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Marshall Kirkpatrick

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