Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.

• Fable is Back!
• Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".
• China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
• Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
• Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product
• Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
• The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
• OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design
• Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
• How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack
• Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
• Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls
• Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
• People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms
• SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device
• * Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
• Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028
• US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
• Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
• * Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
• The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring
• Political Bias in AI
• Om Malik, 1966-2026
• Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
• My post: California's squandered opportunity
• Palantir coat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Chris Potts

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Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators.

• Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
• The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
• N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute
• Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order
• Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what
• Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years
• Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
• Identity verification on Claude
• Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
• Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins
• Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids
• YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids
• OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
• Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership
• OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026
• OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos
• Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
• Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
• We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses
• Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses
• AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
• China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
• AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
• Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
• A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman.
• Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
• Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher
• AI Economics for Dummies
• We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I.
• In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch
• UK TV to be turned off
• Computer History Museum's AI Archive
• Airport Dad

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Olivier Sylvain

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The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation.

• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense
• Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI
• The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
• (21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸" / X
• Anthropic's Safety Superpower
• Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact
• The Anthropic 'Fable' saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora's box.
• Exclusive: OpenAI Preps New AI Model, Expects To Go Public 'Within the Next Year'
• Microsoft CEO warns that a few AI winners could destroy 'entire industries'
• SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal to power AI coding push
• DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is 'Vital' for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
• AI Deepfakes Are Getting Weirder and Harder to Spot in the Midterms
• UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots
• Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training
• Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
• Discover — FablePool
• Isometric NYC
• Encrypted Spaces
• Florida man
• Knick Knacks
• Bird window
• Ode to Orange Seats
• Bending Spoons--owner of AOL, Eventbrite, Vimeo, Komoot, WeTransfer, Evernote, MeetUp, Streamyard, Hopin, Splice, and Brightcove--to IPO
• Tim Ferris: Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Alex Stamos

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