As Anthropic, OpenAI, and industry giants race to outpace each other, data centers and supply chains are straining, while job markets and open-source communities feel the heat. Listen in for a roundtable on whether AI is fueling innovation, burnout, or just the next tech bubble.

• Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos
• Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found
• You're About to See a Lot of Critical Software Updates. Don't Ignore Them.
• Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI
• AI anxiety is turning volatile
• Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
• Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I.
• Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI's Soul
• The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
• Sam Altman's project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
• Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
• Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One
• Live Nation and Ticketmaster lose monopoly case
• Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
• Roblox agrees to a $12 million settlement with Nevada
• Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights
• What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users?
• TotalRecall Reloaded tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11's Recall database
• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
• It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation
• Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is leaving the company
• Venture capitalist Ron Conway says he is starting treatment for a 'rare' cancer

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When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

• Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing
• OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
• Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
• Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model
• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work
• OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft
• The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read
• Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
• Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label
• Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development
• Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
• Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators
• Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
• Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'
• Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
• After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
• Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
• 'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
• AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella
• I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?
• Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount
• OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
• Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'
• I/O schedule
• Haunted Paper Toys
• Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now
• DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS
• TRAIN JAZZ
• The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?
  

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Guest: Craig Mod

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With Microsoft finally doing right by Windows 11 and the Windows Insider Program, it's time to start testing and provide some feedback. And then we'll see if we can really trust these people. Also, Stardock's Connection Explorer 1.0 is here! And if you want one of macOS's dumbest features on Windows 11, you can get it now.

Windows

• Yesterday was Patch Tuesday - Another month in paradise
• 26H1 - Eh, 24H2/25H2 - Narrator, File Explorer, display, Pen settings, WRE, Remote Desktop improvements
• Microsoft reveals how it will simplify the Windows Insider Program
• Two top-level channels, but really three
• A way to enable all features in new builds, finally, and easy channel switching. But there are complexities, of course
• New builds for Canary, Beta, and Dev - Two for Canary, but nothing new, Beta and Dev get Storage, networking, Windows Security, and Feedback Hub improvements
• The first Snapdragon X2-based PC is out, and Paul has that waiting in PA, and two more PCs are coming to Mexico
• PC sales were somehow up 2.5 percent in Q1, but the rest of 2026 will be a bloodbath
• Also, smartphone sales are doing even worse
• NVIDIA reportedly wants to buy Dell or HP ahead of a big PC chipset push. Interesting

Surface/Microsoft 365

• Microsoft is forced to hike Surface prices dramatically
• Microsoft reportedly kills Surface Hub
• Microsoft College Offer: 12 months of Microsoft 365 Premium, 12 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and a custom Xbox controller when students in the U.S. purchase a PC

AI/Dev

• Microsoft AI releases a faster and more efficient image model
• Amazon CEO tries to explain the AI spending
• Google app for Windows rolls out worldwide, but the Mac gets a Gemini app
• Claude for Microsoft Word arrives in Beta
• Claude for Desktop gets a major redesign for multiple AI agents
• Microsoft's reported plans to charge for AI agents
• .NET 11 Preview 3 arrives right on schedule, but there's nothing to see here
• Build session catalog is up - joking, but the new Windows native app strategy should just be vibe coding
• Google I/O registration is open, and you are never going to believe what the main topics will be - number five will shock you

Xbox & gaming

• New Xbox CEO says Game Pass is too expensive, also that the sky is blue
• Xbox will show off the next Metro game soon
• Starfield for PS5 is getting a fix
• Amazon Luna is stripping down to the basics e.g. "pulling a Stadia"

Tips & picks

• Tip of the week: It's time to get involved
• App pick of the week: Stardock Connection Explorer
• RunAs Radio this week: Internal Corporate Communications in 2026 with Emily Mancini
• Brown liquor pick of the week: ScapeGrace Vanguard

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