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• Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
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• Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
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• Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth
• More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
• Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
• McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
• RIP Foursquare
• Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity
• WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
• LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
• Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
• Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
• Masnick on Elon Musk Events
• TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
• The Age of Cage
• Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
• Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas
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• Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide
• On-device AI could make apps obsolete
• Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
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