When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

• Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing
• OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
• Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
• Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model
• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work
• OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft
• The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read
• Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
• Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label
• Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development
• Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
• Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators
• Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
• Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'
• Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
• After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
• Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
• 'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
• AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella
• I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?
• Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount
• OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
• Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'
• I/O schedule
• Haunted Paper Toys
• Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now
• DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS
• TRAIN JAZZ
• The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?
  

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Mod

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A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this technology escapes the lab.

• Claude Mythos Preview System Card - Claude Mythos Preview System Card.pdf
• Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
• Meta Employees Vie for AI 'Token Legend' Status
• Meta releases new model for Social Media "Muse Spark"
• Why OpenAI's Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy
• How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?
• Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
• Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds
• How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
• The back story behind the first "$1.8 Billion" dollar "AI Company"
• It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling
• Cloudflare builds what it calls the successor to WordPress
• JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman
• Mvidia
• Old NYC records
• Basketball is.... good?
• QVC, HSN cable networks face Chapter 11, insolvency
• AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Daniel Miessler

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What happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find out how Every is challenging the boundaries between tech and culture and why even seasoned journalists are wrestling with these tools.

• Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
• (Il)Legal Python Port
• Claude Code Unpacked
• Spinner Verbs
• RANK SPECULATION: Capybara cost - AI haves and have nots. And whither spud?
• Another supply chain attack on NPM
• OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors
• SpaceX Has Filed Confidentially for IPO Ahead of AI Rivals
• Gmail rolling out AI Inbox beta for AI Ultra subscribers
• You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago
• Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance
• EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state
• Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda
• 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll
• More Than Half of US Says AI Likely to Harm Them, Poll Finds
• The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
• 'Most People Don't Enjoy Their Jobs:' Perplexity CEO Says AI Layoffs Are Chance To Launch AI-Powered Ventures
• Biggest AI conference traps researchers, presuming AI as cheating
• An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
• Obsolete Sounds
• The oldest job in journalism: New York Post 'runners' defy AI
• A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kate Lee

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