As AI-generated clip content upends trust and creativity, this week's panel members join forces to unravel whether we're facing a cultural disaster or just the next leap forward (and what anyone online needs to watch out for next). Is the world ready for AI-generated video slop flooding the internet, legal headaches over deepfakes, and million-dollar tech maneuvering?

• Sora 2 is here
• We need to stop the slop of OpenAI's Sora and Meta's Vibes AI video apps before it's too late
• Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say
• One in five Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020
• YouTube Bends the Knee
• Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal
• ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: 'We Are Determined to Fight This'
• How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED
• CISA, the key law that helps the federal government guard against cyber threats to US critical systems, expired when the government shut down
• ByteDance to Maintain Control Of TikTok's U.S. Advertising, E-Commerce
• German government must reject chat control
• Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance
• Swiss voters back electronic identity cards in close vote
• Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses
• Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month
• No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry
• Revenge of the nerds: Inside the Microsoft Excel UK Championships

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Guests: Patrick Beja, Georgia Dow, and Iain Thomson

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With Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion over time in OpenAI, is this type of investment in other competitors healthy for AI? Can LLMs actually handle enterprise tools and tasks? Meta launches a new AI short-form video feed. Apple is testing a new internal chatbot called Veritas as part of its efforts to revamp Siri.

• Nvidia (intends to) invest (up to) $100B in OpenAI (over time).
• Spending on AI is at epic levels. Will it ever pay off?.
• Jensen Huang: "We're already seeing trillion-dollar AI investments".
• How Anthropic and OpenAI are developing AI 'co-workers'.
• OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs.
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs.
• Meta launches 'Vibes,' a short-form video feed of AI slop.
• Trump signs executive order supporting proposed deal to put TikTok under US ownership.
• Amazon reaches $2.5 billion settlement over allegations it misled Prime users.
• Is GenZ unemployable?
• Top economists and Jerome Powell agree that Gen Z's hiring nightmare is real—and it's not about AI eating entry-level jobs.
• AI startup friend bets on foes with $1M NYC subway campaign.
• Peter Thiel wants everyone to think more about the Antichrist.
• Apple builds a ChatGPT-like App to help test the revamped Siri.

Host: Alex Kantrowitz

Guests: Brian McCullough, Dan Shipper, and Ari Paparo

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Is strapping notifications to your face the next frontier, or just tech gone too far? Dive into a lively, sometimes skeptical discussion on Meta's AR glasses, social media's shifting power, the fate of TikTok, and how AI is quietly rewriting the rules, whether we like it or not.

• Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
• I regret to inform you Meta's new smart glasses are the best I've ever tried
• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
• Windows 10 EOL coming soon
• Trump's $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos
• 4Chan, MAGAs unite in 'clog the toilet' op to block H-1B workers flying back
• iPhone Air review: Thinness with a point
• Phone batteries are getting more compact, but the US is missing out
• A MacBook Pro touchscreen? About damn time
• TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says
• By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
• Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
• Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case - Casino.org
• Jaguar Land Rover extends its production shutdown after a cyberattack discovered in late August, and says efforts to reboot production safely "will take time"
• ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM Packages Compromised - StepSecurity
• Never steal a hacker's girlfriend's phone: How an expert exposed a global network of thieves
• Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people
• Pope Leo XIV Rejects a proposal by a Catholic organization to create an "AI Pope Leo" avatar
• Ig Winners

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Devindra Hardawar, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon

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