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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