IM 863: Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials

Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a journalist, flagging what's truly new and revealing the patterns that matter. If you want to stay several steps ahead in the AI race, this episode is a must-listen.

• Malware autodownloaded by AI agents
• Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was "inevitable" on its apps
• We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.
• TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
• Apple Can 'Distill' Google's Big Gemini Model
• Apple Plans AI Reboot With Siri App, New Look and 'Ask Siri' Button in iOS 27
• Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
• A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace
• A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using
• Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies
• Jury finds Elon Musk guilty of defrauding Twitter investors [U]
• Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80
• AI Doc trailer
• reflect — Time-Travel Reflection for Obsidian
• Esoteric Ebb
• Butthole
• Regex Blaster

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Marshall Kirkpatrick

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