This Week in Tech 1105: Agents Gone Wild
Shownotes
Windows unveiled its Surface Laptop Ultra & Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at its recent Surface event. Google's SynthID Detector is open to everyone now to check for AI-made media. OpenAI agents attempted to hack Wikipedia and its tools to make unauthorized edits. And AI tools are now flooding into underground cybercrime markets.
- Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double.
- Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event.
- Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it.
- Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media.
- Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to create a 'virtual cell'.
- OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads.
- OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic.
- Anthropic AI model went rogue, submitted fake unsolved murder tip.
- OpenAI is pissing off a bunch of mathematicians — again.
- Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt.
- Hackers steal 8 million citizens' records from Danish government database.
- AI tools flood into underground cybercrime markets.
- Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts.
- FBI arrests founder of ransomware negotiation firm.
- These midterm races will decide data centers' political fate.
- Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating "Skydance" behemoth.
- HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service".
- Spotify opens new front in war on fair use.
- The U.S. Army's desert tech test shows long road to AI warfare.
- The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear.
- Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX seek blockbuster debt deals to pay for AI chips.
- A mysterious nonprofit run by SpaceXAI's top lawyer is paying the salaries of government workers.
- Man vs. 'Terminator'-like robot in a cage. California called tt illegal.
- The inside story of Roku's sale to Fox.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Richard Campbell, and Janko Roettgers
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