Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.

• Interview with Steven Levy
• Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
• Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
• OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
• Can We Afford AI?
• Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
• China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
• Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
• Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
• Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
• * "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
• ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
• The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
• Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
• The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
• More! Shrimp!
• Wounded robots
• Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Levy

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Paul Thurrott reports live from Maui with exciting details on Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X2 Elite chip and how it could shake up the PC world, while behind the scenes, Microsoft quietly drifts further from OpenAI just as an NVIDIA mega-deal makes headlines. Is Windows about to get its biggest reboot in years, and can ARM finally topple Intel?

Windows

• 25H2 is imminent: The real ISOs and eKBs are here!
• Paul's Arm-based trip to Mexico and Arm-based Apple-tastic experience at Snapdragon Summit
• And yet. It's Week D. And we didn't get any preview updates (for 24H2)
• Windows AI Labs is a thing
• If you're migrating from Windows 10 get a Windows 11 on Arm PC, Microsoft suggests
• New AI features coming to Notepad, Paint, and Snipping Tool
• New Dev and Beta (and Canary) builds: Click to Do translation, Share with Copilot, Accounts management improvements

AI

• The Microsoft/OpenAI rift widens yet again
• NVIDIA invests $100 billion in OpenAI, days after "investing" $5 billion in Intel
• Intel will keep making its own GPUs because who gives a crap
• Microsoft is bringing Anthropic Claude to Microsoft 365 Copilot - "Model choice"
• Microsoft reportedly trying to pay publishers for content used by AI
• Microsoft Teams is getting more agents
• Google Chrome is getting a major AI update

Snapdragon Summit 2025

• 6G, AI as the new UI, glasses as the next wave, Android PCs out of nowhere
• X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme (with up to 18 cores for ultra-premium PCs)
• 3rd Gen Oryon CPU (X2 was 1st gen, last year's phone chip was G2)
• 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
• First Arm chip to hit 5+ GHz
• New Adreno GPU architecture with 2.3x perf per watt and power efficiency over previous gen
• Hexagon NPU with 80 TOPS for "concurrent AI experiences" on Copilot+ PCs
• Supports latest 5G SD X75 modem, Wi-Fi 7, BT 5.4
• 75 percent faster CPU perf than competition at ISO power
• Bad news: First half of 2026 availability
• Not in the press release: The secret of why X2 Elite Extreme is so fast

Xbox

• Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time in 2025
• Here comes the Gaming Copilot on Windows 11
• Google is copying it on Android and bringing Android and native games to Windows now

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Think of 1 story for everyone you care about
• App pick of the week: Notion 3.0
• RunAs Radio this week: Managing Vendor Incidents with Mandi Walls
• Brown liquor pick of the week: High Coast Whisky Quercus IV Mongolica

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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• Consumer Reports on Windows 10 updates.
• Waste (not fraud or abuse) within DoD Cyberoperations.
• China's DeepSeek produces deliberately flawed code.
• WebAssembly v3.0 officially released.
• Firefox v143 updates and new features.
• Firefox for Android now offers DoH.
• A nearly terminal flaw in Microsoft's Entra ID.
• Chrome hits its 6th 0-day this year. Emergency update.
• DRAM (now DDR5) still vulnerable to RowHammer.
• SAMSUNG kitchen refrigerators begin showing ads.
• China says no to NVIDIA.
• 300 more (new) NPM maliciouspackages found and removed.
• The EU is already testing proper online age verification.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1044-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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