• Google improves Gemini AI image editing with 'Nano Banana' model.
• THIS is why large language models can understand the world.
• Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs.
• Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5.
• Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.
• We must build AI for people; not to be a person.
• AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization.
• AI robots are helping South Korea's seniors feel less alone.
• College student's "time travel" AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history.
• Forget Uber Eats—Chipotle's latest delivery option might shock you.
• There are two types of ddishwasher people.
• Would you go on a tour of your local Amazon warehouse?
• Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content.
• Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated 'freelancer'.
• The South Slope Derby.
• Checking in on the Internet Roadtrip.
• TikTok.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: M.G. Siegler

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• AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
• China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
• US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
• Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
• The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
• AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
• Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble
• Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?
• Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
• Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.
• 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
• Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
• How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
• YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
• Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
• So ... is AI writing any good?
• Project Indigo
• We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Rich Skrenta

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• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
• Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons
• David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X
• A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)
• Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise
• Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn
• Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over
• Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network
• What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
• Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
• Two-mile suspension bridge
• Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Tulsee Doshi

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