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

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Louis Maresca, Wesley Faulkner, and Glenn Fleishman

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Anthropic has built an AI model so sharp it's being withheld from the public, sparking debate over who gets access to world-changing tech and who's left behind. Hear how this "too dangerous" AI could tip the balance for the world's most powerful players. This episode unpacks the fresh moral minefields created when cutting-edge tech collides with politics, security, and human lives.

• Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing
• Sam Altman Fire Bombing Response
• OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
• Samsung flags eightfold jump in quarterly profit as AI chip demand pumps prices
• SpaceX Posted Nearly $5 Billion Loss Last Year from AI Spending
• Trump administration plans to cut cybersecurity agency's budget by $700 million
• CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads
• GTA 6 Developer Rockstar Reportedly Hacked, Data Being Ransomed
• FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages - 9to5Mac
• ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
• Helium Is Hard to Replace
• John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement
• France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk
• The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
• DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Settlement
• My Quest to Solve Bitcoin's Great Mystery
• Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%
• 'Abhorrent': the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Doc Rock, Jason Hiner, and Mike Elgan

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This week's episode confronts the mounting legal battles over addictive social apps, questioning whether court rulings should reshape Instagram and YouTube's design. Explore the heated clash between user autonomy, scientific uncertainty, and the next wave of regulation.

• NASA: Artemis II
• Artemis II Live Tracker – Real-Time Orion Spacecraft Position, Speed & Trajectory
• NASA did eventually solve Artemis II's Outlook glitch
• How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one
• Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S.
• Claude Code's Source Didn't Leak. It Was Already Public for Years. | AfterPack Blog
• Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra
• OpenAI acquires popular tech talk show for 'low hundreds of millions'
• The latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are more customizable and expensive
• After 16 Years and $8 Billion, the Military's New GPS Software Still Doesn't Work - Slashdot
• Why the Pentagon loves Xbox controllers for laser weapons
• Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares "hard down" status for multiple zones
• Iran's hackers go to war
• Breaking down the government's bizarre router ban
• How to turn anything into a router
• You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
• Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law - Slashdot
• Delta to Tap Amazon Satellite-Internet Service for In-Flight Wi-Fi
• The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won computing's highest prize
• Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones
• ZomboCom was stolen by hacker, put up for sale, and has now been...

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Patrick Beja, Abrar Al-Heeti, and Iain Thomson

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