Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?

• The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity
• Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
• Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search
• There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice
• White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI
• Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing
• Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
• Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model
• Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
• ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
• David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order
• I'm tired of talking to AI
• In Memoriam: Don Newhouse

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rick Sammon

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Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.

• Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter
• Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
• SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO
• Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
• Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget
• Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo
• (21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X
• Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.
• Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup
• Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'
• AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers
• Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute
• We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs
• The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
• Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents
• What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS
• Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
• OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing
• 'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize
• Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake
• Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything
• Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
• The great digital media valuation collapse
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Frederic Rivain

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British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

• Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
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• Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
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• (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
• NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
• Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
• Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
• Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
• VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
• Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
• Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
• Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
• Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
• The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
• Internet Archive Switzerland
• Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
• Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
• The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
• AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
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Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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