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Uber previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide. Also, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could be good news for the music service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge. Also, before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film. Also, Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund. And the filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology. Also, Flock's CEO's comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud. Also, Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice. Also, in a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starlink is still awaiting security clearance before it can seek spectrum and begin commercial services in India. Also, ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Threads user wrote: "I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads. Also, on Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says. Also, the company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant. Also, the CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro. Also, Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach. Also, the new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices