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Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence.

Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software

Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere

Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding

Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion

Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web

Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw

Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI

Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for

both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat

Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

OpenAI, Musk and Focus

A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model

Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze

Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot

AI Agent Hacks McKinsey

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity

AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion

A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case

Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report

Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot

Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96

CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?

We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak.

I tried BigArch. A big mess.

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Guest: Rumman Chowdhury

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There's an ongoing narrative that Windows is worse than ever today and people are leaving in droves. Paul does not see that, and will simply point to Windows 8 and remind folks that it can be (and was) worse. Also, PowerToys 0.98 adds a major new feature to Command Palette, big changes to Keyboard Manager and CursorWrap, and about 100 other updates. This is a big one. Plus, Mozilla Firefox is staging a comeback and may be worth another look.

Windows

Rajesh Jha is retiring and Microsoft is reorging its Experiences + Devices team

Release Preview: A peek at next week's Week D update (and April's Patch Tuesday) shows we're getting improvements to Narrator, Settings, Smart App Control, Pen settings, Display, File Explorer, and the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE). The trend continues!

New Canary, Dev, and Beta builds - Nothing new in Canary. Dev/Beta: Drag Tray is being renamed to Drop Tray, you can change the user folder name during Setup, Restore points are getting a modern update finally

Intel goes nuts with new "Arrow Lake refresh" processors; these are not Copilot+ PC capable and it's unclear what the Panther Lake comparison looks like

IDC now expects 11.3 percent decline in PC market in 2026, 7.6 percent decline for tablets

AI

Microsoft may sue OpenAI for contract breach - the best Microsoft divorce since IBM

Major reorg in Microsoft's AI businesses

Former Snap exec in charge of consolidated Copilot offerings across consumer and commercial

Mustafa Suleyman to focus on Microsoft's foundational models

There has been a lot of retiring and a lot of outside hires for top-level executive positions in Microsoft over the past year or more. Curious.

Rumors vs. reality in Microsoft scaling back AI ambitions in Windows

Rumor: Microsoft is backtracking on some Copilot features

Reality: Microsoft is not backtracking on its AI ambitions, it's just going to try to do a better job with branding and positioning

Microsoft launches Copilot Health in the U.S.

Google Personal Intelligence ships in the U.S.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 mini and nano models

GPT-5 mini is available as a reasoning model on Duck.ai

Xbox and gaming

Rumor vs. reality in Xbox strategy

Rumor: Microsoft removed "This is an Xbox" messaging from website so it must be focusing on consoles again

Reality: Literally nothing has changed

Xbox Insiders is testing per-game Quick Resume toggle

Also more groups on Home, custom colors, profile badges in guide

Big half month for Game Pass, with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, more coming

Starfield is coming to PS5 on April 7

NVIDIA launches DLSS 5, changes existing games, people are freaking out

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: The grass is always greener

App pick of the week: PowerToys 0.98

RunAs Radio this week: Sustainable AI with Darshna Shah

Brown liquor pick of the week: Teeling Small Batch Whiskey

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Meta quietly ditches encryption for Instagram chats while TikTok also backpedals on privacy, shaking up assumptions about how much big tech really values your secrets. Meanwhile, Steve Gibson reveals why CISA's free government security scans are an absolute must for businesses—plus what he learned when GRC took the plunge.

The Security Now "Caption That Photo" contest.

A mega social media company says "no" to strong encryption.

WhatsApp to give parents more control,

Consumer bandwidth proxying is becoming a big deal.

Meta buys the Moltbook duo.

The EU gives up and settles upon the status quo.

When a ransomware negotiation is not what it seems.

CISA compels federal agencies to submit their logs.

Is that a VPN in your pocket or something more malicious.

Be careful what you download, thinking it's AI.

A super-clever and super-simple A/V scanner bypass.

Will AI write code for me?

Another listener discovers the Joy of AI.

Steve's CISA Internet scanning experience

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1070-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Someone is appearing on Jeopardy this week... Apple announces the AirPods Max 2. The MacBook Neo is its most repairable MacBook in 14 years. And are new colors coming to the next-gen iMacs later this year?

I'll take 'beach reading' for $1000, Ken.

Apple introduces AirPods Max 2.

2026 Apple Studio Display review: The smallest of upgrades.

MacBook Neo is the most repairable MacBook in 14 years.

Apple paying a premium to move iPhone production outside China as it hits milestone.

Should keycaps use text or glyphs for delete, return, tab, caps lock, and shift?

macOS Tahoe 26.4 beta 4, iOS 26.4 beta 4, and iPadOS 26.4 beta 4 distributions highlight nine upcoming emoji characters.

Rumor: Apple to debut "new colors" for next-gen iMacs this year.

Apple's Liquid Glass interface isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Gone (Almost) Phishin'.

Mac on-screen camera indicator light.

How to survive the loss of Rosetta.

First footage shows X-Plane 12 on Vision Pro, including an ARKit trick in action.

F1: The Stream - how the launch leveraged Apple's entire ecosystem.

'F1: the Movie' is now an Oscar-winning hit.

Severance season 3 gets timing update, new characters teased.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Pick: Lil Finder 5K Wallpapers

Christina's Pick: 3D Print Lil' Finder Guy

Andy's Pick: Stickies for Mac

Jason's Pick: Delcom USB HID Handheld Programmable Button Switch

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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From "gainfully employed robots" to AI that accidentally ruins lives, this week's conversation unpacks the real-world fallout of futuristic promises. Leo, JPT, Iain, and Richard tackle energy sources, social media effects, tech layoffs, and the algorithms quietly taking charge.

Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

Meta Said to Push Back Launch of Avocado Model

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children

Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X

Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots

Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases

DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery

U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (related to the plug-in solar story)

TerraPower gets permit to build reactor

Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

'Flying Cars' Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer

YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Iain Thomson, Richard Campbell, and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

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