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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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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Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence.

• Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software
• Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails
• Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere
• Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding
• Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse
• Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
• Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
• Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw
• Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI
• Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for
• both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat
• Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
• OpenAI, Musk and Focus
• A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model
• Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze
• Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race
• Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
• Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot
• AI Agent Hacks McKinsey
• A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity
• AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion
• A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case
• Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
• EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report
• Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot
• Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'
• German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
• CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
• We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak.
• I tried BigArch. A big mess.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rumman Chowdhury

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Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.

• OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns
• ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy
• OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
• Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud
• Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
• OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal
• BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
• ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals
• OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks
• OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot
• OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again
• OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community
• Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years
• Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
• Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World
• Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips
• Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
• Where did you think the training data was coming from?
• You could be an influencer without even realizing it
• Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots
• Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers
• After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
• Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
• Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
• How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
• Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer
• A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"
• AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
• Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
• Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
• Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more
• William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity
• YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company
• ET Fall Preview 1994
• Payphone Go
• This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day
• Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

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