• 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

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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
• neal.fun
• 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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Guests: Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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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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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mike McCue

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• Interview with Jacob Ward
• Duolingo launches 148 courses created with AI after sharing plans to replace contractors with AI
• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
• Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute
• A rare glimpse inside the mountain tunnel that carries water to Southern California
• You can't lick a badger twice
• Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta's AI app
• Zuck video promoting Meta AI learning all about you and your loved ones
• Melanie Mitchell: LLMs & World Models part 1
• Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
• Take It Down Act heads to Trump's desk
• Attention Kmart Shoppers
• Digital creator jobs jump 7.5x since pandemic
• Rabbit ears
• Orb.net

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jacob Ward

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• Interview with Harper Reed
• AI Horseless Carriages
• Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything'
• Cluely, the AI cheating tool's new (insane) ad:
• After 5 years of jaw clicking (TMJ), ChatGPT cured it in 60 seconds — no BS : r/ChatGPT
• China cracks down on 'autonomous' car claims after fatal accident
• Famed AI Researcher Launches Controversial Startup to Replace All Human Workers Everywhere
• Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
• Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.
• Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
• A New Form of Verification on Bluesky
• Survey: Americans Averaged Over $700 in TikTok Shop Purchases in the Last Year
• The Washington Post partners with OpenAI on search content
• Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says
• The Welikia project
• 18 years ago today, Tay Zonday uploaded Chocolate Rain
• Brilliant Senate testimony in Oregon

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Guest: Harper Reed

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• Interview with Nikita Roy
• Linda McMahon just handed A.1. steak sauce an unbelievable opportunity
• When is 4.1 greater than 4.5? When it's OpenAI's newest model.
• Google DeepMind Is Hiring a 'Post-AGI' Research Scientist
• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
• The Dark Power of Fraternities
• Monkey.zip
• High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers
• A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
• DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
• 'She helps cheer me up': the people forming relationships with AI chatbots
• A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging
• Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over antitrust worries, email says
• OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images'
• Boarding passes and checkin to be scrapped
• Pickled Popeyes
• A new season of Game Changer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nikita Roy

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• Interview with Cory Doctorow
• AI hasn't killed radiology, but it is changing it
• Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks
• Man Employs A.I. Avatar in Legal Appeal, and Judge Isn't Amused
• Shopify Says No New Hires Unless AI Can't Do the Job
• The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now
• The 35th anniversary of Twin Peaks
• Eddy Varekamp

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cory Doctorow

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• Interview with Keach Hagey
• The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI
• OpenAI's Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch
• Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name 'Grok'
• Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI
• Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year
• AI: history of a brand by Thomas Haigh
• Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries
• First Trial of Generative AI Therapy Shows It Might Help With Depression
• Tinder wants you to chat with an AI bot before you fail with a real person
• Twitter (X) Hit by 2.8 Billion Profile Data Leak in Alleged Insider Job
• The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
• Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
• (Oh, no) Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok's Chinese owners
• Trump to hold a meeting on possible investors to buy TikTok with possible ban at stake
• Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
• Get ready! Catch Coachella 2025 live, only on YouTube
• Amazon Nova
• Perplexity AI CEO Denies Rumors Company Is Disintegrating Behind the Scenes
• AI accent conversion
• Kat Abughazaleh, from YouTube to Congress?
• Wurst cursor
• The fastest, most-accurate fast-food drive-throughs, and more!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Richard Campbell

Guest: Keach Hagey

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