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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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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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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