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IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?
2026-07-22 | 2h 38 mins.An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible
AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture
Quoting Sam Altman
Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball
Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order
Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains
Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities'
Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped
Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
Cyclospora all the time
Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price
" Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert"
John C. Dvorak dies at age 80
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Nate B. Jones
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zscaler.com/securityIM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?
2026-07-15 | 2h 24 mins.With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them.
Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole trade Secrets
Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days
White House details 'Gold Eagle' clearinghouse for AI cyber threats
Introducing GPT-Live
From Chatbot to Command Center
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)
Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness
OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.
We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content
White House not ruling out action on open-source AI models
The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI - WSJ
Super Dario: One More Week
How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev
History of LLMs: Complete Timeline & Evolution (1950-2026)
No, You Shouldn't Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora
Google creator profiles
Dust jacket
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Raffi Krikorian
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2026-07-08 | 3h 5 mins.Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better.
OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped
Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us
Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment
Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame
Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies
A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat
Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders
Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor'
MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand
lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
GuideAlong
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Ian Bogost
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gusto.com/machines- Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.
Fable is Back!
Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".
China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design
Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack
Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls
Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms
SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device
* Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028
US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
* Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring
Political Bias in AI
Om Malik, 1966-2026
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
My post: California's squandered opportunity
Palantir coat
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan
Guest: Chris Potts
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rippling.ai/machines - Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators.
Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute
Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order
Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years
Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
Identity verification on Claude
Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins
Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids
YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership
OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos
Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses
Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses
AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman.
Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher
AI Economics for Dummies
We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I.
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch
UK TV to be turned off
Computer History Museum's AI Archive
Airport Dad
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis
Guest: Olivier Sylvain
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