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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he 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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