Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep missing.

• Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs
• Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
• Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety
• MetaConnect on during the show
• Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more
• Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series
• Google CC
• I'm Upping My P(Doom)
• Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud
• Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy
• On 'Cupertino,' Creators of the 'The Good Wife' Go to Silicon Valley

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Patrick Hillmann

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Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.

• Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
• Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
• Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
• A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI
• Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
• EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
• Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
• The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
• Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog
• Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
• Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
• A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet
• (4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X
• Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine
• Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'
• They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

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

Guest: Lon Seidman

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As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought.

• Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts
• Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears
• An Alien Mind
• Muse - Your Personal AI Agent
• Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
• On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
• Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation's Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools
• Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls on Trial in October Movie Pileup
• chat jimmy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Matthew Cassinelli

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Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.

• Judge Rules on Google Ads Case
• OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
• Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
• OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk
• OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns
• Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?
• OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
• Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera
• Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai
• YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links
• Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content
• Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
• Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search
• I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help
• MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality
• Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
• September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more
  (155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X
• Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
• Unusual Suspects
• Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers
• Archived video
• CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?

• (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X
• Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs
• Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
• Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
• Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content
• Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'
• (214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X
• Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI
• A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
• Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
• Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.
• Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Co-Host: Christina Warren

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Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse.

• Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter
• (272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X
• If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
• Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI
• Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks
• Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
• Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
• OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow
• Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside
• So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?
• LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T
• New Chinese model adds to AI competition
• What happens to what you share with AI
• Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training
• Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
• Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
• the wikipedia guessing game
• Okay Spielberg TikTok
• At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer
• SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dan O'Dowd

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Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.

• How Claude marks AI-generated content
• Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone
• Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
• Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet
• OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300
• Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion
• High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating
• Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Riot Platforms
• US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon
• Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language
• Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive
• Wired: Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
• "* David Corn: I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad."
• Yea or Nay
• BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: "F*** This"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nicholas De Leon

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Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.

• OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
• OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
• Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
• Altman says he supports AI regulation
• Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC
• White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework
• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
• The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
• Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun
• As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
• Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
• The Red-Hot Book at the Center of an AI Mystery
• A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
• The Autonomous Press - Numbered Papers
• Musk's latest ridiculous prediction: Optimus better than human surgeons in 4 years
• The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Phillip Shoemaker

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