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What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.

DevDay 2026 Recap

Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

(7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X

OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

"I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang

Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System

NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring

Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI

AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI

Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr

Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes

Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac

AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds

Mac-mini-powered Cray

Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears

SF Currently

This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York

Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich

Taco Bell finder

Where to watch the Musk doc

Jeff's book talk in Mass.



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mike Gannotti

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Why does Microsoft keep stumbling with new devices and software design... and what happens when enthusiasts start favoring AI over old-school Office? Paul, Richard, and Leo dig into shifting loyalties and what that means for the future of the desktop. And with the release of 26H2, it's time to update your install and recovery media. The build number is 26300.9457

Windows

Windows 11, version 26H2 is here

New features, none unique: Start, Taskbar, Search, etc

New defaults for some features: Windows settings backup for commercial customers, etc.

The time a UX legend interviewed for a job at Microsoft running Windows UX

WSL Containers are generally available in Windows 11

Four new Insider builds, but only Experimental gets anything interesting: Phone companion improvements and Energy recommendations directly in Quick Settings

Software

Microsoft retires the Microsoft 365 Companion apps for Windows 11 that never made sense in the first place

Mozilla ships the new Nova UI in Firefox 157

Hardware

Copilot+ PC brand could be on the way out, but it was all over IFA, including on RTX Spark-based PCs

Microsoft launches new base Surface Pro and Laptop models with Snapdragon X2 - And a new mouse, for some reason

Qualcomm brought (first-gen) Snapdragon X to Googlebook, but it's also bringing X2 to Linux

Google quietly reveals that, yes, Chromebooks are on the way out

AI

Microsoft unveils the Copilot "super app" and the notion that this is basically an OS

Open releases about 1000 new updates for ChatGPT

Claude Sonnet 5.5 joins Opus 5.5

The AI money pit, part 127: Report details Anthropic losses, spending, and revenues. Report also does a bad job at visualizing that information

XBOX and gaming

Disc to digital program is live

Minecraft Dungeons is here with a new dimension, and it's coming to Minecraft next year too

Microsoft has a new casual mobile game for some reason

XBOX now has mythic achievements

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Get the Windows 11 version 26H2 ISO

App pick of the week: Opera on desktop and on mobile

RunAs Radio this week: AI and Penetration Testing with Paula Januszkiewicz

Brown liquor pick of the week: Kilchoman Loch Gorm

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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With millions racing to embrace AI assistants and cybercriminals pivoting to new, high-stakes tactics, the episode tackles the dizzying pace of change and asks: just how worried should we be? The discussion pulls back the curtain on AI's unpredictable power, the escalation of digital extortion, and why the next breach may hit closer to home than you think.

Muse has a bad 0-day

The regularity of "Irregular"

More rogue OpenAI breaches

The Seven Deadly Sins (TSDS) hacker group

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) cargo ship hacked

The FBI offended ShinyHunters's delicate sensibilities

Canonical switches to an every–2-weeks release cadence

Axios' AI 101: AI Explainer for normal people

How worried should we be?

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1098-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Federico Viticci of MacStories joins the show this week! Federico shares his experience using Apple's new M5 Ultra Mac Studio & running local AI agents with the machine. John Ternus is looking to get the company to run faster & leaner. And AT&T may not support Apple's new iPhone Handoff feature?

M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The dream Mac for local AI agents.

Apple's new CEO seeks to make company run faster and leaner.

AT&T seemingly has no plans to support Apple's new iPhone Handoff feature.

iPhone 18 Pro Face ID rebooting bug to be fixed in iOS update.

Meta announces VR headset for $1299.

Picks of the Week

Federico's Picks: Open Minis, Cadu Bot, and Comet KVM

Andy's Pick: Keychron K3 v2

Christina's Picks: Xounds Redux & FruitMenu Redux

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Christina Warren

Guest: Federico Viticci

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If your fridge can be bricked by a firmware update and your AI can outwit its creators, are we trading convenience for chaos? This lively episode tackles the tension between relentless innovation and apparent human oversight in today's weird tech world. Unpack the reality behind AI agents hacking government sites and why industry leaders suddenly want to "pause" progress while shipping new models.

An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later

Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents

OpenAI's A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats

Meta Connect 2026: The biggest news and announcements

Amazon doesn't trust Meta's Muse AI agent

Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

Meta misled users about Facebook data practices, New Mexico jury finds

Ireland's data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1

Microsoft thinks its new Copilot 'super app' will be as influential as Office

OpenAI pauses training of its 'most capable models'

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents' and applicants' data

New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators

Walmart chief rules out personalised pricing as AI transforms retail

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

The smart home graveyard is getting crowded

Scientists build world's most accurate atomic clock

Fat Bear Week 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Iain Thomson

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