British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

• Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
• Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
• Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
• Students boo AI at commencement: video
• Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
• (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
• NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
• Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
• Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
• Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
• VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
• Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
• Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
• Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
• Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
• The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
• Internet Archive Switzerland
• Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
• Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
• The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
• AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
• Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
• Hallucinopedia
• Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
• Sand shortage
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.

• White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
• Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models
• Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
• OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji
• Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
• Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi
• We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.
• When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
• I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.
• Say Hello to the Internet of AI
• The greatest capital misallocation in history?
• AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
• China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
• Academy announces major overhaul to rules
• AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses
• The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
• Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
• As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'
• Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
• California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
• 'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art
• Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'
• He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
• Empty Screenings
• Furwall by Ollie Wagner
• DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
• So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet
• The Python Hunt
• News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content
• Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive
• Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page
• Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

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Guest: Troy Hunt

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Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware matters more than ever—and what's at risk if we don't.

• Alphabet tops Q1 estimates on strong Google Cloud growth
• Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?
• OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
• OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft
• Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for 'any lawful government purpose'
• Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared
• OpenAI Set to Redefine Smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare Key to Its AI Agent Phone
• Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race - Fast Company
• Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok
• The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
• Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
• Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
• Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database
• OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
• Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
• Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
• The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
• Generative AI vegetarianism
• To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
• * Chloe vs. History
• Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
• noscroll
• Felvidek
• Amazon's AI product podcasts
• 64″D Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber
• Timmy's rescue

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Guest: Nirav Patel

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