This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence.

• Data Centers lose BIGLY in the 2026 Elections
• Campaign texts, now powered by AI: How new tech is shaping voter outreach
• Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers
• Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
• Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
• Sam Altman wants YOUR RAM in HIS cloud
• Elon Musk had his Mean Girls Moment
• Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
• Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
• Google has a Data Center in Space... and it's writing poetry!
• OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses"
• AI Spenders Get Spooked
• Musk says Grok bot's costs were 'unsustainably high' weeks after touting rapid growth
• He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too
• The best coffee is back at PERC
• Padre's Cofeemaker
• Cupertino

Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.

• Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
• (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X
• AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
• Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
• Muse Wonder
• OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math
• GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
• Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers
• Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
• Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI
• Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'
• Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
• REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent
• Cupertino
• Zuck's beer face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Martin Woodward

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What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.

• DevDay 2026 Recap
• Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing
• GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
• (7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X
• OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
• "I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang
• Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
• NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
• Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand
• Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI
• AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
• Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr
• Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
• A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes
• Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
• Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
• AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds
• Mac-mini-powered Cray
• Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears
• SF Currently
• This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York
• Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich
• Taco Bell finder
• Where to watch the Musk doc
• Jeff's book talk in Mass.
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mike Gannotti

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