This Week in Tech (Audio)

AI insiders are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the decade, but is this a real threat or a convenient narrative serving Silicon Valley's biggest players? Tune in as the panel untangles fact from hype and digs into the power plays shaping AI's future.

Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature similar to AI wearables

Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999

Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple's New Siri A.I.

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other device

The Flock backlash is coming for retail

Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras

A Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over

Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

Some of Dyson's $500 toothbrushes are breaking

iRobot unveils the Roomba Duo

Husqvarna gets the first exception to the FCC's foreign robot ban for its mowers.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Daniel Rubino

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When politicians, parents, and platforms collide, who protects kids from tech's dark side? Dive into real stories of digital parenting, policy-making headaches, and the unexpected ways tech companies shape everyday life.

US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

Why the Courts Are Hesitant to Punish Tech Giants Like Meta and Google

John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple

Apple, OpenAI legal fight keeps escalating. Here's how we got here

Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports

Meta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad

FTC lawsuit alleges Amazon has been 'secretly and systematically' overcharging for ads

Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings

Vance Called AI Satanic. He Struck a Chord Among Christian Republicans.

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It's Basically Alive

Nvidia Extends A.I. Spending Spree With $12.9 Billion Deal for Hugging Face

Tesla's Cybercab Officially Launches Today. It's Already Under Investigation

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Owen JJ Stone

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As AI-generated video blurs reality and new Macs hit five-figure price tags, the conversation digs into who's left behind in the race to automate and whether "democratizing" tech actually delivers on its promise. Find out how NVIDIA, Meta, and even Apple are reshaping the tech game, and why it might not be good news for everyone.

Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

NVIDIA's Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion Thanks to A.I. Spending

Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

Apple Introduces M6 and M5 Ultra Chips, in New Mac Mini and Mac Studio

How Apple Stumbled Into AI Hardware Success With the Mac

Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform

The Meta Settlement Makes Big Tech Bigger

'Darth Vader' Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance

The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms

With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot

Skynet went live yesterday

Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jacob Ward, Harry McCracken, and Molly White

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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion lawsuit, flock cameras are sparking a privacy revolt, and data centers may be fueling the next bubble. This episode pulls back the curtain on who's watching, who's profiting, and who could pay the price.

Meta's Big Reckoning Is Here

Meta heads to court in a landmark trial about kids and social media addiction

Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230

The $1.4 Trillion State Tort Raid on Meta

Google's Pixel 11 Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That?

Waymo's cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities

Apple and European Commission Reach Agreement on App Payment Terms Under DMA, With Apple Conceding Very Little

Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by the end of 2026

NVIDIA to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion

Why Big Tech's AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems

New Chinese model adds to AI competition

Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras

Flock mistakenly flags 2 different auto writers for "stolen" license plates

Go Flock Yourself

Flock socks for UV protection

Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded

China Is Strapping 'Digital Bombs' to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Sam Abuelsamid and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg's open AI manifesto, or is it just another play to keep control out of your hands? The panel debates the future of personal superintelligent agents, who really stands to benefit, and whether anyone should slow things down before it's too late.

Mark Zuckerberg Posts 6,500-Word AI Essay

Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He's Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It

Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

You can now turn off Google Gemini's visible watermarks

Everything Google announced: Pixel 11, Pixel Tag, Pixel Watch 11, more

Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse

Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US [U]

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

Transportation Sec. Decides to Turn Air Traffic Control Into a Game

Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Denise Howell, Joey de Villa, and Gina Smith

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