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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
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Guests: Iain Thomson and Nicholas De Leon
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