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
• Nous 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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