IM 808: Stephen Wolfram - AI Inspo, Nvidia Signs, Grok Sexy Mode

• Interview with Stephen Wolfram • OpenAI now serves 400M users every week • Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom • Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus • Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work • AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy. • Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers • Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI • Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue • Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition • Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1 • To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data • Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor • Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist • Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral • Grok 3's "sexy mode" • Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk • When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works • Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel' • Touch grass • Bracket City

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Wolfram

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