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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Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?

• NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
• No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images
• Introducing ChatGPT Health
• 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic
• Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism
• The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all
• 2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs
• Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
• Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"
• Stanford's AI class on YouTube
• Tamiflu
• Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere)
• Happy birthday Nic Cage
• Floor796

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jason Hiner

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Our interviews with:

• Ray Kurzweil
• Alex Hanna
• Emily Bender
• Mike Masnick
• Pliny the Liberator
• Kevin Kelly

Host: Leo Laporte

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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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