An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.

• Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible
• AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture
• Quoting Sam Altman
• Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball
• Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
• Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order
• Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
• NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
• Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains
• Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
• Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
• AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
• Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities'
• Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped
• Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
• Cyclospora all the time
• Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price
• " Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert"
• John C. Dvorak dies at age 80

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nate B. Jones

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With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them.

• Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/
• Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole trade Secrets
• Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
• Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days
• White House details 'Gold Eagle' clearinghouse for AI cyber threats
• Introducing GPT-Live
• From Chatbot to Command Center
• OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
• A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X
• What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)
• Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
• PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone
• Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness
• OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.
• We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out
• Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content
• White House not ruling out action on open-source AI models
• The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI - WSJ
• Super Dario: One More Week
• How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev
• History of LLMs: Complete Timeline & Evolution (1950-2026)
• No, You Shouldn't Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora
• Google creator profiles
• Dust jacket
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Raffi Krikorian

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Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better.

• OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
• Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
• OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
• Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped
• Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us
• Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
• Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment
• Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
• Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame
• Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies
• A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal
• Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
• Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat
• Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders
• Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor'
• MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand
• lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
• GuideAlong

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Bogost

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Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.

• Fable is Back!
• Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".
• China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
• Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
• Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product
• Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
• The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
• OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design
• Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
• How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack
• Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
• Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls
• Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
• People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms
• SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device
• * Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
• Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028
• US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
• Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
• * Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
• The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring
• Political Bias in AI
• Om Malik, 1966-2026
• Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
• My post: California's squandered opportunity
• Palantir coat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Chris Potts

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Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators.

• Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
• The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
• N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute
• Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order
• Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what
• Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years
• Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
• Identity verification on Claude
• Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
• Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins
• Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids
• YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids
• OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
• Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership
• OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026
• OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos
• Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
• Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
• We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses
• Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses
• AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
• China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
• AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
• Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
• A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman.
• Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
• Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher
• AI Economics for Dummies
• We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I.
• In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch
• UK TV to be turned off
• Computer History Museum's AI Archive
• Airport Dad

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Olivier Sylvain

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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.
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• '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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Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?

• The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity
• Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
• Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search
• There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice
• White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI
• Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing
• Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
• Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model
• Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
• ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
• David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order
• I'm tired of talking to AI
• In Memoriam: Don Newhouse

Picks of the Week:

• KMart Muzak
• Infinite Jeffs
• isaiprofitable.com

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

Guest: Rick Sammon

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Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.

• Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter
• Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
• SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO
• Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
• Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget
• Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo
• (21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X
• Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.
• Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup
• Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'
• AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers
• Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute
• We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs
• The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
• Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents
• What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS
• Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
• OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing
• 'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize
• Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake
• Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything
• Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
• The great digital media valuation collapse
• Sperm racing

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Frederic Rivain

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