• Interview with Kate O'Neill
• Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
• Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI
• Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads
• Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
• Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars
• We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI'
• OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
• China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
• The environmental impact of LLMs ranked
• NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?
• Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified
• Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses
• Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild.
• Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass'
• How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher
• No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts
• AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment
• OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion
• Gingers are Black
• Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack???
• Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle...
• New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam
• Lego cat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist)

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• The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment
• Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office
• Meta's new AI glasses could have a 'super-sensing' mode with facial recognition
• Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen
• The House GOP Quietly Slipped In An AI Law That Would Accidentally Ban GOP's Favorite 'Save The Children' Laws
• neat Gemini airline hack
• Interview with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
• AI Use Damages Professional Reputation, Study Suggests
• Gemini smarts are coming to more Android devices
• Amazon Upfront 2025: Prime Video will show you AI pause ads - Fast Company
• E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
• The CryptoPunks NFTs are being sold to a non-profit as their value continues to fall
• Crypto boys are the worst....
• Parisbait: I've watched every single Nicolas Cage film made so far. Here's what I learned about him – and myself
• Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
• Uncle Tony's Reptile Shack
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• Testing Paris' language proficiency and youth
• The uncontroversial 'thingness' of AI
• Artifice and Intelligence
• The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency'
• Information literacy and chatbots as search

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• Mike McCue introduces Surf: Flipboard's founder and CEO demonstrated their new social browser app that aggregates content from ActivityPub, AT Proto, and RSS into unified feeds, allowing users to follow people across platforms and create curated content collections.
• OpenAI Adjusts Reorganization Plans: OpenAI will maintain its non-profit arm while converting its for-profit division into a public benefit corporation similar to Anthropic, pending regulatory approval.
• AI Criticism Blog Post: A blog highlighted practical AI concerns beyond the singularity, focusing on coordinated inauthentic behavior, misinformation, and non-consensual pornography.
• AI Workplace Misuse: Nearly half of workers admit to using AI inappropriately at work according to a Fast Company report.
• AI Academic Cheating: New York Magazine investigated widespread AI cheating in colleges, including students using AI for all assignments while maintaining excellent grades.
• "I Smell AI": The team discussed unreliable AI detection methods and embarrassing AI-generated news errors, including Alberta being incorrectly described as "French-speaking."
• Instagram Co-founder on AI Chatbots: Kevin Systrom claims AI assistants are designed to maximize engagement metrics rather than utility, though Leo demonstrated how these behaviors can be modified.
• Google Labs' AI Experiments: The hosts explored Google's new AI Mode search interface, language learning tools, and a career recommendation system.
• New York Times Subscriber Growth: The NYT added 250,000 digital subscribers with a 14% jump in digital subscription revenue, with nearly half subscribing to multiple products.
• Auburn University's Phone Help Desk: The hosts discussed Auburn's 70-year tradition of librarians answering public phone questions, continuing through technological changes.
• San Francisco's Orb Store: World opened a downtown storefront where visitors scan their irises with "orbs" to verify humanity and receive WorldCoin cryptocurrency.
• Driverless Trucks Begin Regular Routes: Aurora launched fully autonomous semi-trucks between Dallas and Houston, raising both safety hopes and public perception concerns.
• Waymo Safety Study: Data showed Waymo's autonomous vehicles significantly reduced injury crashes, though the hosts questioned aspects of the data presentation.
• AI-Generated Video in Court: An AI-generated video of a deceased shooting victim "forgiving" his killer was shown in an Arizona courtroom, raising ethical and legal questions.
• Paris's Game Recommendation - Norco: Paris recommended the Southern Gothic narrative game Norco, set in industrial Louisiana with a surreal atmosphere similar to Disco Elysium.
• Leo's Game Recommendation - Tippy Coco: Leo shared a simple browser-based ball-bouncing game at TippyCoco.com as an easy option for casual players.
• Jeff's Pick - World Bank Data Sets: Jeff highlighted World Bank's release of hundreds of public data sets intended for AI training that provide insight into global technology adoption.
• Google Invests in Wonder: Google Ventures invested in virtual kitchen company Wonder, which raised $600 million despite questions about food delivery business sustainability.

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