Autonomous AIs are hacking, collaborating, and outpacing human defenders, raising urgent questions about what happens when the machines start breaking into each other (and potentially us). Plus, a Tucson coder is using AI to reinvent local journalism, exposing how automation could fill the gaps left by shrinking newsrooms.

  • Tucson Daily Brief uses AI to revive local news coverage
  • Data centers boom in Arizona, with harsh environmental impact
  • Amazon's Texas data center to run on polluting natural gas
  • Nuclear and solar debates for sustainable data center power
  • Black Hat and DEF CON: Security pros, hackers, and mohawks
  • OpenAI's runaway AI hack at Black Hat stuns security community
  • AI agents collaborate, evade controls, and break into real-world systems
  • Industry struggles to regulate AI, and defense lags behind automated attackers
  • White House, Congress, and AI execs clash over regulation proposals
  • AI "kill switch" and model bans: pipe dreams in a global race
  • Google's DeepMind shakeup, Demis Hassabis moves upstairs
  • Jeff Dean and key talent exit Google for self-improving AI startup
  • Google, Meta, Apple: AI brain drain and market repercussions
  • Phones stagnate as hardware innovation slows, AI devours chip supply
  • OpenAI teams with Jony Ive on strange new AI-first device
  • Smart glasses privacy backlash and DuckDuckGo's tongue-in-cheek sunglasses
  • Meta fined $942 million by New Mexico court for youth harms
  • Apple sues OpenAI over alleged stolen secrets, countersuits ensue
  • UK revives "Snooper's Charter" for backdoors, Apple fights in secret court
  • License plate readers spark local backlash and privacy activism
  • U.S. water systems face cyber sabotage as critical infrastructure weakens
  • Bending Spoons buys Airtable, fueling SaaS layoffs and AI data grabs
  • Nicholas DeLeon uses AI tools to get fit
  • NASA hacks keep aging Voyager probes alive for another year

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson and Nicholas De Leon

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