• Interview with Ray Kurzweil
• Liquid eggs? NYC bodegas have new strategy to keep bacon, egg and cheese prices down
• Google announces Gemini Robotics for building general purpose robots
• DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags
• An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false
  claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
• A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly
• AI Tries To Cheat At Chess When It's Losing - Slashdot
• AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance
• Pokemon Go is getting a new owner after almost 9 years with Niantic
• Robots That Don't Walk Are Making Strides
• Amazon has more than 750,000 robots that sort, lift, and carry packages—see them in action
• TikTok will play 'calming music' to remind teens to stop using the app
• FCC chair asks if YouTube TV 'discriminates against faith-based programming'
• OpenAI says it has trained an AI that's 'really good' at creative writing
• Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
• The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry
• Times profile of Jessica Lessin
• Gen-Zers are turning to DVDs instead of streaming their favorite movies
• Wonder Acquires Media Company Tastemade for $90 Million
• Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ray Kurzweil

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• Interview with Gary Marcus
• Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
• Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion
• Satya Nadella Argues AI's True Value Will Come When It Finds Killer App Akin To Email or Excel
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? - Slashdot
• Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
• What to know about deepfakes bill backed by Melania Trump
• Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI
• Google lets Americans delete their search results
• 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
• Alexis Ohanian Joins Project Liberty's TikTok Bid
• YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
• Skype is shutting down after two decades
• LATimes insights page
• PDF example from the LATimes
• Gebru: "🔇🔇🔇 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AGI AND ATTEMPTING TO BUILD IT IS A EUGENICIST, POWER CENTRALIZATION PROJECT THAT NO ONE SHOULD SUPPORT."
• The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects
• Masnick: Announcing Otherwise Objectionable: A Podcast Series About The Most Misunderstood Law On The Internet
• 18F demolished
• AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million
• Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K
• Vintage Computer Festival East
• Mimeartist is watching us on the big tv
• Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful
  

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• Interview with Stephen Wolfram
• OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
• Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work
• AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy.
• Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers
• Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI
• Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue
• Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition
• Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1
• To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral
• Grok 3's "sexy mode"
• Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk
• When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
• Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel'
• Touch grass
• Bracket City
  

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Guest: Stephen Wolfram

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• Interview with the founders of Bee.computer
• Would Paris or Jeff get a Bee?
• Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
• Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip
• A 'Teleportation' Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here
• Google's AI Efforts Marred by Turf Disputes
• Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
• Marcus: Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI
• Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
• The Humane AI Pin: A $700 Brick of E-Waste
• AI Notetakers In Meetings Are Making Me Queasy - Bloomberg
• AI Designs Plastic-Digesting Enzyme
• Nikola, Electric Truck Maker, Files for Bankruptcy
• Google Lens powering new 'Screen Search' in Chrome for iOS
• Extra Finger ring
• On Probabilism and Determinism in AI
• My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani
• A delightful look into the Murdochs' Succession Drama
• James Murdoch interview
• Roasted Chicken Thighs With Hot Honey and Lime
• Leobait: Thermomix cult
• Australian lamb video with comments section

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Guests: Ethan Sutin and Maria de Lourdes Zollo

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• Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
• Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy to lead the CFTC
• Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the "primary device for YouTube viewing in the US", indicating YouTube is "the new TV"
• Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
• FYI related: Court Unplugs AI Fair Use Defense, But Context Is Key
• "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta emails unsealed
• How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term
• Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"
• The Strategy Behind Musk's $97 Billion Bid for OpenAI
• 'Doomers' Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.
• 25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods - The New York Times
• WikiTok
• BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
• Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
  

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• Interview with Zack Kass, Former GTM for Open AI
• Why you can deep-six the DeepSeek hype
• Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
• OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to ChatGPT interactions
• AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here's What I've Learned.
• Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
• Hugging Face researchers aim to build an 'open' version of OpenAI's deep research tool
• Anthropic makes "jailbreak" advance to stop AI models producing harmful results
• WSJ: The Manhattan Project Was Secret. Should America's AI Work Be Too?
• EU AI Act: Ban on certain AI practices and requirements for AI literacy come into effect
• Cathy Gellis: When It's Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too
• a16z slides on AI and voice
• Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on Astra
• Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a "legendary misadventure" if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows
• The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America's Worst Criminals
• Hilarious analyst on Tesla
• How the DJI Flip uses AI
• Marketers will have to market to AI agents
• AI systems could be "caused to suffer" if consciousness achieved, says research

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• Leo's AI Toys
• DeepSeek
• How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
• Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
• 17th Century Death Roulette ☠️
• Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
• 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
• The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world
• Paris' new TV
• Scoldy Mastodon
• Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
• Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok
• Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.
• Why doesn't Siri know what it doesn't know?
• New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI
• Technological puritanism
• All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
• By Paris: Before Google's $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
• The mayor of Merrymac

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• "Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles
• Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory
• What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't
• Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law
• SkyTok, BlueSky's TikTok, made with Surf on ActivityPub
• The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers
• Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face
• Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle
• Nokia's reaction to the iPhone
• The Ankler launches standalone trade publication on the creator economy
• Bassinet backlash reflects debate over adding fees to connected devices
• Elon Musk admits cheating at video games, chat transcript appears to show
• The Whole World is Whining
• Netflix's UK Audience Reach Overtook BBC1 For The First Time Last Year
• Genrevision podcast

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• Justice Kagan Acknowledges Bluesky, And Other Notes From The TikTok Oral Argument
• Alito and Playboy
• A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon
• Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
• Free our feeds fundraising
• The people should own the town square
• Lemley's post
• Google's 'Daily Listen' lab is a personalized podcast based on your Discover feed
• Leo's AI toys
• She Is in Love With ChatGPT
• Jawboning In Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated By The DMCA
• Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards
• American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al
• Physicists figure out the perfect Cacio e Pepe recipe
• Cursormania!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a "community notes" system similar to X
• (30+) kottke.org: "oh s**t new logo just dropped"
• Masnick: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta's New Content Moderation Policies
• Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down
• I watched the Nvidia keynote; can summarize -jj
• The Bitter Lesson
• Hank Green's Cripslock Test for AGI
• Public Domain Day 2025
• CES 2025
• New AI powered Samsung refrigerators will allow direct grocery ordering with Instacart
• Gemini is taking over Google TV - in a good way
• Google's AI Help Me Read feature
• Deepseek seems to be a big deal: Chinese model, cheaper to train
• Altman's latest gospel
• Choose your Silicon Valley Thinkbro
• Nicvember Post Mortum
• The Habermas Machine: AI mediating disagreements
• VPN Demand Surge in Florida after Adult Sites Age Restriction Kicks In

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