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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From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their actions matters more than ever.

• AMistral CEO interview (use Translate)
• Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
• Profile of Mark Zuckerberg
• Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999
• Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
• Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played
• They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue
• AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done
• With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
• Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
• Google announces SynthID Detector
• Fortune headline: "I wrote The Future of Truth, and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes. I've chosen to fight back."
• Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.
• How A.I. Can Boost Democracy
• Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
• Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
• Normal Tools
• Gina's Make Great Software
• Paul Theroux: True North
• Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Spencer Thompson

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From AI-generated Halloween scares to personal assistants that just won't quit, the age of at-home intelligence is here. But with each new feature, your privacy, security, and digital autonomy hang in the balance.

• Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
• Meta's Muse AI agent hits 10.9 million downloads as ChatGPT slides 25%
• Released This Week : Flux 3 Image Klein (Open Weights)
• "Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date"
• Video on the DSX Pod starting at 30:40
• What if we've misunderstood how AI thinks?
• First large‑scale agentic cyberattack on OpenCode
• AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk
• The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
• German Court Rules Google Earth is "Spying" on People by Publishing Aerial Photos of Their Homes
• Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers
• Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy
• Anthropic S-1
• Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner Bros. Bid
• Bill Gross's AI Tool Could Supercharge the Number of Startups
• Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
• New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests
• Craig Newmark AMA
• A new SubwayTakes star rises: Debbie
• How SubwayTakes's First Spinoff Star Outwitted Conan
• Some final words on Foursquare.
• Squad

Editors Note: Jason Hiner's site is The Deep View, not the Deep Think. Sorry Jason!

Hosts: Louis Maresca, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Is the AI gold rush running on shaky ground? Get the inside story on Anthropic's blockbuster IPO, massive compute bets, and why some insiders think the industry's economics just don't add up.

• Anthropic's IPO S-1 Spells Out a Future of Promise and Peril
• DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
• (Marissa Meyer) Maybe We All Need an A.I. Wife
• Whoops: Meta's Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts Of Super-Sensitive User Data
• Everybody is freaking out over the NYTimes adding AI to the Cooking app
• Wikipedia but only for things a half hour walk away from you
• Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down
• "WSJ: The Bull Case for AI Armageddon
• For investors mulling the Anthropic share offering, a 10% chance of extinction may be a 90% win for your portfolio"

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Jason Hiner

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Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep missing.

• Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs
• Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
• Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety
• MetaConnect on during the show
• Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more
• Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series
• Google CC
• I'm Upping My P(Doom)
• Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud
• Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy
• On 'Cupertino,' Creators of the 'The Good Wife' Go to Silicon Valley

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Patrick Hillmann

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Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.

• Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
• Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
• Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
• A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
• EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
• Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
• The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
• Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog
• Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
• Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
• A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet
• (4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X
• Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine
• Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'
• They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Lon Seidman

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