GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.

• Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay
• (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X
• AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
• Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
• Muse Wonder
• OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math
• GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
• Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers
• Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy
• Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI
• Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'
• Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
• REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent
• Cupertino
• Zuck's beer face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Martin Woodward

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What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.

• DevDay 2026 Recap
• Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing
• GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
• (7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X
• OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
• "I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang
• Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
• NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring
• Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand
• Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI
• AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
• Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr
• Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
• A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes
• Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
• Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
• AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds
• Mac-mini-powered Cray
• Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears
• SF Currently
• This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York
• Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich
• Taco Bell finder
• Where to watch the Musk doc
• Jeff's book talk in Mass.
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mike Gannotti

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From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their actions matters more than ever.

• AMistral CEO interview (use Translate)
• Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
• Profile of Mark Zuckerberg
• Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999
• Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
• Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played
• They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue
• AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done
• With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
• Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
• Google announces SynthID Detector
• Fortune headline: "I wrote The Future of Truth, and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes. I've chosen to fight back."
• Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.
• How A.I. Can Boost Democracy
• Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
• Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
• Normal Tools
• Gina's Make Great Software
• Paul Theroux: True North
• Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Spencer Thompson

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