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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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