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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