Is today's AI stuck as a "spiky superintelligence," brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers trading theories, strong opinions, and the next big risks on the path to real AGI.

• Why "Everyone Dies" Gets AGI All Wrong
• The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
• Google's First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey
• Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different
• Sam Altman shuts down question about how OpenAI can commit to spending $1.4 trillion while earning billions: 'Enough'
• How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
• Perplexity's new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
• Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do
• Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight
• Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
• Dictionary.com names 6-7 as 2025's word of the year
• Tech companies don't care that students use their AI agents to cheat
• The Morning After: Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan's show
• The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
• TikTok announces its first awards show in the US
• Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
• Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028
• American Museum of Tort Law
• Dog Chapel - Dog Mountain
• Nicvember masterlist
• Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeremy Berman

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Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.

• Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn
• Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs
• OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
• Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic
• Microsoft's Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
• Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
• A Definition of AGI
  OpenAI Finalizes Corporate Restructuring, Gives Microsoft 27% Stake and Technology Access Until 2032 - Slashdot
• This mom's son was asking Tesla's Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
• Nvidia Becomes World's First $5 Trillion Company - Slashdot
• Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years
• How Realistic is OpenAI's 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?
• Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny
• Zenni's Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
• Alphabet earnings
• Meta earnings
• You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Actually Is
• Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
• AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
• Casio's Fluffy AI Robot Squeaked Its Way Into My Heart
• For the sake of the show, I will suffer this torture -jj
• Machine Olfaction and Embedded AI Are Shaping the New Global Sensing Industry
• A silly little photoshoot with your friends
• Bugonia
• Celebrating 25 years of Google Ads
• The Data Is In: The Washington Post Can't Replace Its "TikTok Guy"
• Peak screen?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Alan Cowen

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Is the future of artificial intelligence running on your desk instead of in massive data centers? This episode breaks down how Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's new ZGX Nano could let anyone fine-tune jaw-dropping language models at home—and why privacy, cost, and control are suddenly up for grabs.

• Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
• Leo... AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows
• The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
• OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA
• Is Andrej Karpathy Right About Overhyped AI?
• Happy 18th Birthday to None Pizza Left Beef
• Originality.ai

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mike Elgan

Guests: Joey de Villa and Andrew Hawthorn

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