Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.

• State of Mozilla 2025/26
• Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash
• Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini
• Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen
• I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed
• Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
• Proof of Corn
• Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations
• Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.
• China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says
• How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence
• Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models
• Claude's new constitution
• "Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
• Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.

• Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
• NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year
• Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
• Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
• We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
• How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus
• Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status'
• Claude's new constitution

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Thomas Haigh

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Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes.

• Claude Code
• Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes
• Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools
• Introducing Cowork
• "In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars
• Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin
• Creepy Link
• Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use
• Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue
• X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
• Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
• J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture
• Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
• Postal Arbitrage
• New protein tests
• The Traitors Season 4
• WikiFlix
• MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms
• 'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Silverman

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