Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?

• NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
• No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images
• Introducing ChatGPT Health
• 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic
• Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism
• The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all
• 2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs
• Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
• Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"
• Stanford's AI class on YouTube
• Tamiflu
• Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere)
• Happy birthday Nic Cage
• Floor796

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jason Hiner

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Our interviews with:

• Ray Kurzweil
• Alex Hanna
• Emily Bender
• Mike Masnick
• Pliny the Liberator
• Kevin Kelly

Host: Leo Laporte

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Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.

CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge

• Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
• The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI
• Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?
• Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI - Slashdot
• OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
• "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
• Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
• Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training
• Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
• It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas
• Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal
• This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?
• Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
• Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029
• When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
• Simulating Life Paths with Digital Twins: AI-Generated Future Selves Influence Decision-Making and Expand Human Choice
• The worst person in tech bracket
• Banned fonts
• Subway bagel rats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: CJ Trowbridge

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What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.

Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi

• ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
• From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
• Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
• Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman
• Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
• Svedka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily With AI
• AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
• TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI
• The Resonant Computing Manifesto (from Masnick)
• Techdirt fundraiser
• From Sam Lessin: Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style
• Bare Metal Email
• Jeff in Austria
• Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy
• Who says AI isn't useful? Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Pliny the Liberator

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Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.

• Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
• Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
• OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
• AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending
• I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
• Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major
• Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent
• Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'
• AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
• The race to AGI-pill the pope
• Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci

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AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people?

• Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
• White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say
  Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device
• Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
• Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
• The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok
• The prof crashed
• I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
• Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich
• Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence
• AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing
• Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?
• A beautiful Nic Cage commercial
• This stuffing recipe
• How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m.
• 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons
• The Stahl House
• A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Emad Mostaque

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What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.

• Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
• Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
• Part 1: How I Found Out
• $1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand
• His announcement leaving Meta
• White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations
• Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'
• Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
• Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain
• AI love, actually
• Cat island
• road trip: liquidator's warehouse
• Gentype
• The Carpenter's Son...
• My excerpt from the Q&A
• Image of the paper

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jimmy Wales

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Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

• Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary
• OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment
• Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute' Into Law - Montana Newsroom
• Sam Altman's Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups
• Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup
• Exclusive: US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up
• Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network - Slashdot
• 12 Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%
• The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation
• How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?
• What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids
• If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go
• LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior
• No. 10's synthetic voters
• Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers
• Eric Schmidt: This Is No Way to Rule a Country
• My torture for you
• Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
• 'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news
• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
• YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week
• How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
• Tort Law museum visit
• Bread and Puppet Museum
• We're famous in Germany
• Brand new bridge

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

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