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Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.

Judge Rules on Google Ads Case

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India

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

OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk

OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns

Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?

OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire

Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera

Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai

YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links

Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search

I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help

MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality

Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more

(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X

Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

Unusual Suspects

Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers

Archived video

CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

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Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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While Microsoft pushes Copilot+ PCs, NVIDIA storms into the Windows ecosystem with AI-focused Spark machines and game-changing specs, igniting new rivalries with Apple and upending expectations for what local hardware can do. Plus, Atari revives 39 Activision classics for a price that will make retro fans blink, while the Sonos saga continues as it pivots to an open AI platform that might finally win back old loyalties. Finally, Paul's Markdown book will be released sometime in the next week.

Windows

The mystery of 26H2 is now less mysterious

Last week: Week D came and went without a preview release, triggering speculation

Microsoft issues Windows 11 version 26H2 to Release Preview, a first

This means a September or October release to stable. Just guessing, but Preview Update in September, general Update in October is most likely

Version numbers don't matter much anymore. There are no unique 26H2 features, just a few unique 26H2 presets - These include Point-in-time restore and Memory Integrity Protection being on by default

Two 26H1 pre-release builds with little to speak of

IFA 2026 is underway in Berlin

Acer is first out of the gates with dozens of new PCs, including one based on the NVIDIA RTX Spark

EU General Court confirms that Microsoft Edge is not a gatekeeper

Visual Studio Code now has a full Markdown Editor experience

Brave now offers free email aliases, and will have a premium option soon

Firefox for iOS now has integrated ad blocking

NVIDIA - $96.2 billion in revenues, up 106 percent YOY

Dell - record $47 billion in revenues, but it's all from server/infrastructure

HP - $15.7 billion in revenues, up 12.5 percent - $11.8 billion from PCs, vs. $15 billion for all Dell client products

AI/dev

Sony and Warner sue Anthropic for stealing their music

Gemini Notebook gets first Expert Intelligence upgrade with integrated e-book support

Sonos announces Sonos 27 OS with major AI functionality

Microsoft moves WinUI development fully to GitHub ahead of open-sourcing it

XBOX and gaming

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, more coming to Game Pass

Every Activision title for the Atari 2600 is being reissued in cartridge form, but it's going to cost you

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Markdown: A Field Guide for Writers

App pick of the week: ImageGlass 10

RunAs Radio this week: Reimagining Intranets with Susan Hanley

Brown liquor pick of the week: Macaloney's Cath-Nah-Aven

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices.

A possible means for preventing prompt injection abuse.

Clear evidence of Chinese-made router malicious intent.

A cool before and after SpinRite graph of SSD performance.

How about adding unpredictable hashes to role tags?

What did Claude make of last week's podcast?

Could much better harnesses prevent prompt injection?

A listener wants us to stop saying AI "thinks".

AI designers ignore well-understood security concepts.

Can we explain LLM AI using conventional computer terms?

A listener strongly dislikes the term "rotating credentials".

The land of AI is being filled with "meat proxies".

Researchers exhaustively test frontier model vulnerability remediation. (hint: It does not go well.)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1094-Notes.pdf



Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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John Ternus is officially Apple CEO as of September 1st. Apple pushes back against OpenAI's attempts to delay its lawsuit against the AI company. What will Apple unveil at its upcoming September 'Surprise and Shine' event? And is Apple's immersive baseball event a hit?

John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple.

Tim Cook, the man who grew Apple by trillions of dollars.

Apple's Ternus takes the reins as CEO, with AI as job No. 1.

OpenAI's lawsuit delays cause more harm every day, says Apple.

Potential Apple RAM supplier CXMT sues feds to take it off the supplier blacklist.

China's CXMT makes breakthrough in advanced memory chips.

Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: 'Surprise and shine'.

What to expect from Apple's 'Surprise and shine' iPhone 18 Pro event on September 9.

Leaker says iPhone Ultra will come in these colors, with one surprise.

Apple takes first immersive baseball swings from the on-deck circle.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Pick: GroxConnect/GroxStudio

Andy's Pick: Lenovo ThinkVision M14

Jason's Pick: Better Desktop by Knightscape in the Discord

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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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