AI insiders are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the decade, but is this a real threat or a convenient narrative serving Silicon Valley's biggest players? Tune in as the panel untangles fact from hype and digs into the power plays shaping AI's future.

• Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'
• Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
• Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearables
• Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999
• Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.
• Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
• LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other device
• The Flock backlash is coming for retail
• Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
• A Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
• Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
• Some of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breaking
• iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo
• Husqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.

Correction: Mikah incorrectly stated that Live Rewind and Siri Recap would also be available on iPhone 16 and newer. Apple says the features require an Apple Watch Series 12 or Apple Watch Ultra 4 paired with a supported iPhone. They are not iPhone features.

Host: Leo Laporte

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When politicians, parents, and platforms collide, who protects kids from tech's dark side? Dive into real stories of digital parenting, policy-making headaches, and the unexpected ways tech companies shape everyday life.

• US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case
• Why the Courts Are Hesitant to Punish Tech Giants Like Meta and Google
• John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple
• Apple, OpenAI legal fight keeps escalating. Here's how we got here
• Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports
• Meta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad
• FTC lawsuit alleges Amazon has been 'secretly and systematically' overcharging for ads
• Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings
• Vance Called AI Satanic. He Struck a Chord Among Christian Republicans.
• Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It's Basically Alive
• Nvidia Extends A.I. Spending Spree With $12.9 Billion Deal for Hugging Face
• Tesla's Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It's Already Under Investigation
• AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles

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As AI-generated video blurs reality and new Macs hit five-figure price tags, the conversation digs into who's left behind in the race to automate and whether "democratizing" tech actually delivers on its promise. Find out how NVIDIA, Meta, and even Apple are reshaping the tech game, and why it might not be good news for everyone.

• Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
• NVIDIA's Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion Thanks to A.I. Spending
• Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
• Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio
• How Apple Stumbled Into AI Hardware Success With the Mac
• Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
• Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
• The Meta Settlement Makes Big Tech Bigger
• 'Darth Vader' Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance
• The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms
• With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot
• Skynet went live yesterday
• Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion lawsuit, flock cameras are sparking a privacy revolt, and data centers may be fueling the next bubble. This episode pulls back the curtain on who's watching, who's profiting, and who could pay the price.

• Meta's Big Reckoning Is Here
• Meta heads to court in a landmark trial about kids and social media addiction
• Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230
• The $1.4 Trillion State Tort Raid on Meta
• Google's Pixel 11 Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That?
• Waymo's cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities
• Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA, With Apple Conceding Very Little
• Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri
• Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
• Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by the end of 2026
• NVIDIA to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion
• Why Big Tech's AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems
• New Chinese model adds to AI competition
• Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras
• Flock mistakenly flags 2 different auto writers for "stolen" license plates
• Go Flock Yourself
• Flock socks for UV protection
• Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded
• China Is Strapping 'Digital Bombs' to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?

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Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg's open AI manifesto, or is it just another play to keep control out of your hands? The panel debates the future of personal superintelligent agents, who really stands to benefit, and whether anyone should slow things down before it's too late.

• Mark Zuckerberg Posts 6,500-Word AI Essay
• Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He's Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It
• Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
• You can now turn off Google Gemini's visible watermarks
• Everything Google announced: Pixel 11, Pixel Tag, Pixel Watch 11, more
• Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse
• Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
• Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
• Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US [U]
• Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
• DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
• Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT
• Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down
• Transportation Sec. Decides to Turn Air Traffic Control Into a Game
• Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

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Autonomous AIs are hacking, collaborating, and outpacing human defenders, raising urgent questions about what happens when the machines start breaking into each other (and potentially us). Plus, a Tucson coder is using AI to reinvent local journalism, exposing how automation could fill the gaps left by shrinking newsrooms.

• Tucson Daily Brief uses AI to revive local news coverage
• Data centers boom in Arizona, with harsh environmental impact
• Amazon's Texas data center to run on polluting natural gas
• Nuclear and solar debates for sustainable data center power
• Black Hat and DEF CON: Security pros, hackers, and mohawks
• OpenAI's runaway AI hack at Black Hat stuns security community
• AI agents collaborate, evade controls, and break into real-world systems
• Industry struggles to regulate AI, and defense lags behind automated attackers
• White House, Congress, and AI execs clash over regulation proposals
• AI "kill switch" and model bans: pipe dreams in a global race
• Google's DeepMind shakeup, Demis Hassabis moves upstairs
• Jeff Dean and key talent exit Google for self-improving AI startup
• Google, Meta, Apple: AI brain drain and market repercussions
• Phones stagnate as hardware innovation slows, AI devours chip supply
• OpenAI teams with Jony Ive on strange new AI-first device
• Smart glasses privacy backlash and DuckDuckGo's tongue-in-cheek sunglasses
• Meta fined $942 million by New Mexico court for youth harms
• Apple sues OpenAI over alleged stolen secrets, countersuits ensue
• UK revives "Snooper's Charter" for backdoors, Apple fights in secret court
• License plate readers spark local backlash and privacy activism
• U.S. water systems face cyber sabotage as critical infrastructure weakens
• Bending Spoons buys Airtable, fueling SaaS layoffs and AI data grabs
• Nicholas DeLeon uses AI tools to get fit
• NASA hacks keep aging Voyager probes alive for another year

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From foldable phones that out-price laptops to AI models that escape their digital cages, this episode dives into the wild next phase of tech innovation and its unexpected risks. See how the giants are scrambling to keep up as hardware, software, and even outer space are up for grabs.

• Tim Cook passes the baton in Apple's Q3 2026 earnings call
• Apple's Profit Is Up 27%, but Expectations for Current Quarter Disappoint
• Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices
• Apple struggles to keep pace with AI 'bug' hunters
• "Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
• As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
• Microsoft's $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest in Stock Market History
• Amazon's trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
• Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show
• For the First Time, Zoox Can Charge People for Rides in Its Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis
• Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
• OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Teaming Up in Washington
• AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
• How bitcoin cold wallets lost $70 million in an attack that never touched the devices
• NBCUniversal and YouTube ink deal to embed Peacock in the video platform for premium subscribers
• Inside the Luxury Robotaxi Uber, Lucid and Nuro Are Testing

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Leo and this week's panel pay tribute to tech journalist John C. Dvorak, then dive into how AI, relentless hardware shortages, and shifting media habits are reshaping the tech world faster than anyone predicted. The crew discusses how an OpenAI model exploited its own network to cheat on cybersecurity benchmarks, flipping the script on what AI agents are capable of and what might be next for digital security.

• John C. Dvorak has died
• OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
• China's Top AI Event Delivers Message to the U.S.: We're Coming for You
• Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
• The EU Fines Google $1 Billion for Prioritizing Its Own Services in Search
• The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet
• Apple Sued by Customers Who Lost Combined $1.8 Million Through Fake Bitcoin Wallet in App Store
• A.I. 'Vibecoded' Apps Are Flooding Apple's App Store
• Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
• ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
• Government Lawyers Say Trump Admin Can Use TikTok Again Because 'Owned' No Longer Means 'Owned'
• Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in a win for US states
• The AI industry has already spent $65 million ahead of the midterm elections with no signs of slowing down.
• Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launches as Samsung's 'most advanced' foldable, starts at $2,099
• US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
• Kill the Cookie Banner!

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What happens when China drops open-weight AI models that rival Silicon Valley's best? This episode unpacks how a new wave of international AI releases is shaking up business, policy, and the future of innovation.

• Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
• Claude on X: "Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to"
• China's Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi Model, Threatening America's Lead
• Alibaba's Qwen Unveils Preview of Flagship AI Model
• Social media limits are coming for teens across Europe
• The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
• Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP
• Meta Is Flooding the Market With Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms.
• Federal employees can download TikTok on government devices, DOJ says
• Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
• MLB cracks down on using AI via dugout iPads to help shape in-game decisions
• White House Teleprompter Operator Bet on Trump Speeches, Kalshi Says
• New York school district is testing lifelike robot teachers

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Apple is suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets, sparking a heated debate about AI, hardware ambitions, and Silicon Valley's shifting alliances. Leo, Wesley, Lou, and Patrick tackle what Apple's legal gambit could mean for OpenAI's IPO and the future of AI development.

• Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft in Blockbuster Case
• Apple's OpenAI lawsuit highlights broader tensions
• Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams
• Claude Fable 5 promotional access
• Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial
• Meta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of Backlash
• Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment
• Meta Ordered by E.U. to Alter 'Addictive Design' of Instagram and Facebook
• The backlash against Sony ditching PlayStation discs is not slowing down
• Colibrì proof-of-concept gains frontier-level 1.5-TB AI model — novel approach runs on only 25GB of RAM and shows promise for local AI setups
• Waymo called the cops on teen riders, raising privacy concerns
• Waymo says some of its robotaxis ran out of power during San Francisco's July 4 gridlock and had to be towed
• Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again
• Copy That Floppy! - Copy That Floppy!

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