New AI ventures: Jan LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati

Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.

• OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns
• ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy
• OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
• Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud
• Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
• OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal
• BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
• ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals
• OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks
• OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot
• OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again
• OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community
• Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years
• Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
• Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World
• Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips
• Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
• Where did you think the training data was coming from?
• You could be an influencer without even realizing it
• Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots
• Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers
• After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
• Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
• Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
• How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
• Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer
• A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"
• AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
• Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
• Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
• Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more
• William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity
• YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company
• ET Fall Preview 1994
• Payphone Go
• This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day
• Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

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