TWiT 1097: Gina and the Glueballs - Is AI Moving Too Fast?

Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg's open AI manifesto, or is it just another play to keep control out of your hands? The panel debates the future of personal superintelligent agents, who really stands to benefit, and whether anyone should slow things down before it's too late.

Mark Zuckerberg Posts 6,500-Word AI Essay
Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He's Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It
Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
You can now turn off Google Gemini's visible watermarks
Everything Google announced: Pixel 11, Pixel Tag, Pixel Watch 11, more
Google is making the Pixel cameras better by making them worse
Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
Apple proposes commissions of up to 15% for off-App Store purchases in the US [U]
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT
Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down
Transportation Sec. Decides to Turn Air Traffic Control Into a Game
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

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