• 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

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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?

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Guest: Tulsee Doshi

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• Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi
• OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
• Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
• Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)
• Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop
• Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data
• Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry
• AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
• Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
• The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
• A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.
• When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....
• AI vegans
• Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code
• Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of
• Good guy humpback whales

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Guest: Vlad Prelovac

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• Interview with Ian Krietzberg
• Leo's shows off his new AI toys
• Paris unveils her new desk setup
• Personal Superintelligence
• You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.
• Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang
• Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content
• Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip
• The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models
• My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX
• Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk
• Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster
• Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out
• TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show
• This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
• JC makes wine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Krietzberg

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• Interview with Steven Johnson
• Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch
• (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X
• Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
  OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
  SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
• (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X
• It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
• Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
• Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces
• A new study just upended AI safety
• 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
• Tesla results
• Total Party Kill
• Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen
• Attack of the clever crows

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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• Interview with Anil Dash
• egirl Grok x Claude
• Zuckerberg announces Meta's new AI data centers for superintelligence
• Meta Hires Two More OpenAI Researchers
• Reflections on OpenAI
• RSS is (not) dead (yet) (NED #3) – audra mcnamee
• Perplexity AI browser
• Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
• Stewart Holbrook: Portland Mythmaker
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Fun With A.I.

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• Interview with Mike Masnick
• Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
• The one secret to using genAI to boost your brain
• Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X
• How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI
• As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT
• (21) Josh Woodward on X: "The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://t.co/uPa0p0KQZu" / X
• Chinese robot dog nears Usain Bolt speed, breaks global record
• Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
• A.I.'s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck)
• A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
• Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
• Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
• Zitron: OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
• Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
• Grammarly Authorship
• CalMatters Digital Democracy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Mike Masnick

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