A principled stand by an underdog AI company ignites a mass migration of users, shakes up Silicon Valley talent wars, and leaves even the tech giants recalculating their moves. Hear how one weekend suddenly redrew the lines on ethics, leadership, and who controls the future of AI.

• Interview with Dan Patterson of Blackbird.ai
• Stratechery: Anthropic and Alignment
• SAMA's prevaricating, panicked posts
• Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout
• Amazon says drone strikes damaged 3 facilities in UAE and Bahrain
• Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
• Because Leo isn't here...
• Mark Zuckerberg's $170 Million Mansion Buy Breaks Miami Price Records
• Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Jason Hiner

Guest: Dan Patterson

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What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.

• Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight
• Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
• Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
• How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans
• My first vibe coding project!
• Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR
• THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
• QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals
• IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
• OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera
• ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics
• "Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"
• Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
• Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
• Gemini 3.1 Pro
• Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
• You can now make Alexa's AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
• Claude Remote-Control
• Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
• OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando
• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
• More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
• What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
• AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
• LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
• Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot
• Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself
• Men 'yell' at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women
• It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'—and It's No Joke
• I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak
• This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby
• Famous Signatures Through History
• Finally got a Fujifilm!
• I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay
• Jeff's new friends
• How far back in time can you understand English?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeff Atwood

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OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?

• OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
• OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
• Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times
• Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
• Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
• Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
• Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499
• Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3
• Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science
• Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
• A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
• Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
• GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment
• An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words
• I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.
• Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs
• AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
• Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems
• Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
• An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story
• Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories
• Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting
• DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust
• Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
• ai;dr
• I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
• Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
• Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
• peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal
• Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent
• Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini

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Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work.

• Something Big Is Happening
• Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
• Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
• Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech
• Google's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
• OpenAI's Meta makeover
• ChatGPT's deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports
• Alexa+, Amazon's AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.
• Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
• AI didn't kill customer support. It's rebuilding it
• Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters
  most for their kids.
• A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
• AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
• Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
• Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
• How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
• LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study
• HBR: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
• As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
• Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis
• Medicare's new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here's why it's risky
• Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
• Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps
• The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt
• Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
• Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine's Day messages a good idea?
• As Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They're Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable
• YouTube Argues It Isn't Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
• 'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas
• Understanding Neural Network, Visually
• Leo's AI Journey
• The TIMELINE
• TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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The podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact.

• Anthropic's Move Into Legal Is Sinking Data Services Stocks
• Data centers in space makes no sense
• The hitchhiker's guide to Musk's SpaceX memo
• Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
• Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear - Nature
• OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month
• Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman
• Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features
• Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
• HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
• French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit
• An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account
• Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers
• Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker
• Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints
• Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
• Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut
• Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe
• The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph
• The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys
• Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steve Yegge

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Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.

• State of Mozilla 2025/26
• Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash
• Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini
• Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen
• I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed
• Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
• Proof of Corn
• Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations
• Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.
• China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says
• How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence
• Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models
• Claude's new constitution
• "Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
• Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mark Surman

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Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.

• Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
• NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year
• Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
• Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
• We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
• How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus
• Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status'
• Claude's new constitution

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Thomas Haigh

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Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes.

• Claude Code
• Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
• Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools
• Introducing Cowork
• "In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars
• Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin
• Creepy Link
• Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use
• Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue
• X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
• Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture
• Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
• Postal Arbitrage
• New protein tests
• The Traitors Season 4
• WikiFlix
• MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms
• 'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Silverman

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Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?

• NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
• No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images
• Introducing ChatGPT Health
• 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic
• Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism
• The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all
• 2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs
• Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
• Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"
• Stanford's AI class on YouTube
• Tamiflu
• Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere)
• Happy birthday Nic Cage
• Floor796

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jason Hiner

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Our interviews with:

• Ray Kurzweil
• Alex Hanna
• Emily Bender
• Mike Masnick
• Pliny the Liberator
• Kevin Kelly

Host: Leo Laporte

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