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Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.

Fable is Back!

Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".

China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI

Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft

OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design

Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It

How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms

SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device

* Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028

US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections

Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

* Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring

Political Bias in AI

Om Malik, 1966-2026

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

My post: California's squandered opportunity

Palantir coat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Chris Potts

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Windows 10's Extended Security Update program quietly gets extended for another year for consumers. Microsoft reportedly kills Surface Go products & is now selling 8 GB Surface Pro & Laptop models. And Xbox Series X & S prices are going to go up again.

Windows

Microsoft quietly extends the Windows 10 Extended Security Update program one year to October 2027 for consumers

Windows Insider

Windows Update is transitioning to the new Windows Insider experience by default

Plus, five new builds across Beta, Experimental, Beta (26H1), Experimental (26H1), and Experimental (Future Platforms) — new Taskbar size setting is the much-needed new feature

Hardware

Apple raises prices on Macs, iPads, and more, easing pressure on PC makers

Microsoft quietly begins selling 8 GB Surface Pro/Laptop models

Microsoft reportedly kills Surface Go products right when we need them the most

The ASUS Zenbook A16 is nearly perfect, but it's unclear what you get with an X2 Elite Extreme chip

AI

HP partners with OpenAI for its agentic makeover

Anthropic seizes on the "good enough" AI movement with Sonnet 5

Proton Lumo 2.0 is here

Gemini personalized image creator is available for free in the US

Notion blames agentic AI for it killing Notion Mail

Xbox and Gaming

The 2026 Doom and Gloom Watch

Xbox Series X|S prices to go up again, by $150, on August 1 - and the 2 TB X is going away

Undead Labs and Arkane Lyon possible victims of pending closures

Latest rumor: Microsoft to layoff 2.5 percent of workforce next week - that's 5,500 people, less than expected, but that's because of the earlier voluntary buyouts, which apparently met internal expectations

Minecraft Bedrock edition gets closed captions

Sony will stop selling PS physical media in 2028

Tips and Picks

Tip of the week: Help or get out of the way

People who just complain aren't solving problems, they're just making noise and distracting us from the real problems.

App Pick of the Week: Snapdragon Control Panel

If you have a Windows 11 on Arm PC on Snapdragon X or X2, you need this app to make games run as well as possible.

Plus - Settings > System > Display > Graphics for Auto SR and other settings and whatever is in each game

RunAs Radio this week: AI-Accelerated Supply Chain Attacks with Mackenzie Duncan

Brown liquor pick of the week: Rupert's Exceptional Canadian Whisky

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out how state-sponsored attackers and careless disclosures are turning the cybersecurity playbook upside down.

Win10's popularity forces another year of free updates.

CISA directs all federal agencies to update their UniFi OS devices.

CISA gave federal agencies "the weekend" to update Cisco devices.

Australia is disturbed by a deeply compromised infrastructure provider.

OpenAI introduces Daybreak-powered "Patch the Planet" initiative.

Meta's employee monitoring-for-AI-training backfired badly.

Script Kiddies figure out how to use AI to find vulnerabilities.

AI improves with "looping", "repeating" or "iterating".

A wonderful story about Kevin Mitnick.

Serious hackers mistakenly left a server directory accessible

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1085-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Not long after Tim Cook's interview with The Wall Street Journal about price increases for Apple products, Apple raised prices on products such as the MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and iPad! Leaks are coming out about the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro. And could the rumored touch MacBook use M5 chips, with M7 models to follow?

Apple raises prices due to memory chip shortage

Micron executive Sumit Sadana tells Tim Cook to stop hitting himself.

Apple suppliers Samsung, SK hynix & Micron hit by RAM price fixing suit.

Apple faced bipartisan opposition when it last lobbied to buy Chinese RAM in 2022.

FT reports that Apple is lobbying to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese company CXMT.

Apple releases macOS, Tahoe iOS, and iPadOS updates focuses on dozens of security fixes.

Apple's legal team is striking social media sharing stolen iPhone 18 Pro data.

UK ponders copying more EU App Store rules.

Half of social media child safety features don't work, report claims.

Apple's touch MacBook to Use M5 Pro and Max Chips, with M7 models to follow.

Siri AI app on iOS 27 lets users easily switch between Siri and ChatGPT.

Apple seemingly killed Siri AI waitlist workaround in macOS 27 beta 2.

Apple Music's billions of streams, billions of dollars in fines, and one failure.

Three AirDrop vulnerabilities discovered, with Apple working on a full fix.

Google pulls the plug on Tenor API, killing GIF pickers around the web.

Apple's first cinematic event in 2026 is Everest ascent saga 'Tenzing'.

Apple executive in charge of Vision Pro is reportedly leaving for OpenAI.

The wedding-conspiracy mill that Taylor Swift built.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Picks: Cursor & OpenClaw apps, and a MacBook Neo cursor fix

Christina's Pick: MKV2MP4

Andy's Pick: UGREEN Tablet Stand

Jason's Picks: The Rest is History & "Historical World Cup" Soccer Jersey

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Tech giants and chipmakers are facing off as AI-fueled memory shortages trigger sweeping price hikes on everything from Macs to game consoles. Hear why global supply chain standoffs, long-term contracts, and old-school market forces are quietly reshaping your daily technology.

• Apple and Microsoft hike prices on devices amid global memory shortages

• Surge in AI data centers drives RAM and storage crisis

• Intel's comeback: Core Ultra chips compete with AMD in handheld gaming

• Microsoft's pivot to ARM, Qualcomm-NVIDIA alliance, and x86 rivalry

• AI fear and backlash; organic concern amplified by international actors

• White House abruptly pulls Anthropic's Fable model, sparking industry uproar

• US government U-turns on AI regulation, restricts top models to select partners

• Tension over AI innovation vs. regulatory "rug pull" and global competition

• Smart home chaos: Matter 1.6 standard, Samsung and Level Lock shake-up

• Debate over local vs. cloud smart home control and API access fees

• Ring and Flock cameras ignite privacy and surveillance state concerns

• Social media bans for under-16s fail in Australia, UK, and Norway plan similar rules

• BBC Radio 4 long wave broadcast ends after a century

• Meta gets caught tracking employees for AI; PlayStation deletes owned movies

• US regulators propose removing brake pedals from Robotaxis

• Ford's automated systems flop, company rehiring engineers

• Farewell to tech journalist and GigaOm founder Om Malik

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Guests: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, Dan Patterson, and Daniel Rubino

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