From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.

• No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California


• ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot


• OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT


• Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot


• Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems


• Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report


• Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries


• America is now one big bet on AI


• The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI


• Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year


• Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy


• A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls


• Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits


• Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry


• CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?


• Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence


• Have we passed peak social media?


• As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain


• OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars


• Google CodeMender


• Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model


• Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology


• Our friend Glenn

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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