Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.

CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge

• Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
• The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI
• Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?
• Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI - Slashdot
• OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
• "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
• Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
• Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
• It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas
• Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal
• This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?
• Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
• Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029
• When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
• Simulating Life Paths with Digital Twins: AI-Generated Future Selves Influence Decision-Making and Expand Human Choice
• The worst person in tech bracket
• Banned fonts
• Subway bagel rats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: CJ Trowbridge

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What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.

Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi

• ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
• From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
• Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
• Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman
• Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
• Svedka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily With AI
• AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
• TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI
• The Resonant Computing Manifesto (from Masnick)
• Techdirt fundraiser
• From Sam Lessin: Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
• Bare Metal Email
• Jeff in Austria
• Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy
• Who says AI isn't useful? Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Pliny the Liberator

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Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.

• Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
• Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
• OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
• AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending
• I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
• Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major
• Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent
• Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'
• AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
• The race to AGI-pill the pope
• Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci

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