AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next generation of stories.

• AThis is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark
• Anthropic has officially filed to go public
• Google Seeks $80 Billion for AI Buildout; Berkshire Will Buy $10 Billion Stake
• Amazon's AI jackpot: Its $8 billion Anthropic holdings are now worth $74 billion
• Taking a trip this summer? Beware. These travel scams are now turbocharged by AI
• Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
• Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
• AI info visualization -- click on anything for more
• cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.
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• 'The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.' Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?
• Hell Grind trailer
• Martin Scorsese accused of 'throwing artists under bus' with AI storyboards

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Robert Tercek

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Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?

• The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity
• Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
• Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search
• There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice
• White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI
• Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing
• Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
• Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model
• Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes
• ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
• David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order
• I'm tired of talking to AI
• In Memoriam: Don Newhouse

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

Guest: Rick Sammon

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Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.

• Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter
• Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
• SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO
• Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
• Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget
• Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo
• (21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X
• Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.
• Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup
• Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'
• AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers
• Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute
• We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs
• The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
• Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents
• What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS
• Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
• OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing
• 'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize
• Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake
• Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything
• Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
• The great digital media valuation collapse
• Sperm racing

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Frederic Rivain

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