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British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.
- Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
- Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
- Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
- Students boo AI at commencement: video
- Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
- (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
- NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
- Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
- Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
- Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
- VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
- Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
- Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
- Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
- Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
- The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
- Internet Archive Switzerland
- Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
- Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
- The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
- AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
- Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
- Hallucinopedia
- Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
- Sand shortage
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker
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