Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.

• TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
• AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
• (20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have" / X
• The AI water issue is fake
• California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
• Walmart Announces It Will Sell Products Through ChatGPT's Instant Checkout
• Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead
• AI is changing how we quantify pain
• Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows
• Social media must warn users of 'profound' health risks under new California law
• Google will let friends help you recover an account
• AI content on the net
• AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet
• Karpathy tweet
• Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI
• Sal Khan is the new TED
• You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
• Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos.
• Paper: Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
• THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI
• A Twitch streamer gave birth live, with Twitch's CEO in the chat
• DirecTV will soon bring AI ads to your screensaver
• Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime
• What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp?
• Inherently funny word
• Boah, Bahn!
• A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

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From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.

• No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
• ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
• OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
• Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot
• Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems
• Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report
• Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries
• America is now one big bet on AI
• The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI
• Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year
• Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy
• A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls
• Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits
• Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry
• CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?
• Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
• Have we passed peak social media?
• As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain
• OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars
• Google CodeMender
• Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
• Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
• Our friend Glenn

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.

• Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• It's time to prepare for AI personhood
• Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: "She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being"
• Link to the podslop podcasts
• California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law
• Sen. Mark Kelly's big plan for an AI future isn't ambitious enough
• ** DeepMind defines levels of AGI
• Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
• AI passed the hardest CFA test in minutes
• ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart's referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents
• Amazon event live blog: we're here for new Echos, Kindles, and more
• Introducing ChatGPT Pulse | OpenAI
• Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant
• That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
• Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement
• It's official: Google says the Android and ChromeOS merger is coming 'next year'
• Blippo+
• Guardian sliders
• Ive's $4,800 lantern

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Raiza Martin

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