GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons
David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X
A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise
Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn
Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over
Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network
What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Two-mile suspension bridge
Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Tulsee Doshi
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IM 831: 9 Seconds of Google - Holy Widgets
Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)
Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop
Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data
Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry
AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.
When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....
AI vegans
Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code
Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of
Good guy humpback whales
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Vlad Prelovac
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IM 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy - Personal Superintelligence?
Interview with Ian Krietzberg
Leo's shows off his new AI toys
Paris unveils her new desk setup
Personal Superintelligence
You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.
Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang
Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content
Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip
The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models
My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX
Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk
Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster
Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out
TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show
This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
JC makes wine
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Ian Krietzberg
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IM 829: The Yonkers Questions - What's New With NotebookLM
Interview with Steven Johnson
Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch
(21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X
Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
(21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces
A new study just upended AI safety
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
Tesla results
Total Party Kill
Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen
Attack of the clever crows
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Guest: Steven Johnson
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IM 827: Marco Rubio on Line 1 - The Promise of Personalized Software
Interview with Mike Masnick
Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
The one secret to using genAI to boost your brain
Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X
How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI
As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT
(21) Josh Woodward on X: "The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://t.co/uPa0p0KQZu" / X
Chinese robot dog nears Usain Bolt speed, breaks global record
Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
A.I.'s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck)
A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
Zitron: OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
Grammarly Authorship
CalMatters Digital Democracy
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Guest: Mike Masnick
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