Show Notes
Autonomous AIs are hacking, collaborating, and outpacing human defenders, raising urgent questions about what happens when the machines start breaking into each other (and potentially us). Plus, a Tucson coder is using AI to reinvent local journalism, exposing how automation could fill the gaps left by shrinking newsrooms.
Tucson Daily Brief uses AI to revive local news coverage
Data centers boom in Arizona, with harsh environmental impact
Amazon's Texas data center to run on polluting natural gas
Nuclear and solar debates for sustainable data center power
Black Hat and DEF CON: Security pros, hackers, and mohawks
OpenAI's runaway AI hack at Black Hat stuns security community
AI agents collaborate, evade controls, and break into real-world systems
Industry struggles to regulate AI, and defense lags behind automated attackers
White House, Congress, and AI execs clash over regulation proposals
AI "kill switch" and model bans: pipe dreams in a global race
Google's DeepMind shakeup, Demis Hassabis moves upstairs
Jeff Dean and key talent exit Google for self-improving AI startup
Google, Meta, Apple: AI brain drain and market repercussions
Phones stagnate as hardware innovation slows, AI devours chip supply
OpenAI teams with Jony Ive on strange new AI-first device
Smart glasses privacy backlash and DuckDuckGo's tongue-in-cheek sunglasses
Meta fined $942 million by New Mexico court for youth harms
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged stolen secrets, countersuits ensue
UK revives "Snooper's Charter" for backdoors, Apple fights in secret court
License plate readers spark local backlash and privacy activism
U.S. water systems face cyber sabotage as critical infrastructure weakens
Bending Spoons buys Airtable, fueling SaaS layoffs and AI data grabs
Nicholas DeLeon uses AI tools to get fit
NASA hacks keep aging Voyager probes alive for another year
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Iain Thomson and Nicholas De Leon
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