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Which AI model should you use, and how much effort should it put in? Using Claude as the example, Mikah Sargent explains its four model families, Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable, and its five effort levels, and shows that ChatGPT and Gemini have the same two dials. He explains what an AI model's "thinking" actually is and what changes when you switch models or turn up the effort. He compares an easy job on a light setup and a heavy one, tests a logic puzzle with one right answer at two effort levels, and explains why the top setting isn't automatically the best one. Then he shares a way to choose that works in any chatbot.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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Can one developer's breakthrough double or even quadruple local AI performance on your own hardware? Explore how TensorFold could make cloud-based models look slow and why giants like Apple and Nvidia are taking notice.

Nvidia is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang

The Nvidia capital atlas: really good graphics

(12) Fireside Alpha on X: "Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles" "You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, mental illness, these will be https://t.co/quRQbixDSu" / X

AMD Zen 6 EPYC 'Venice' deep dive and benchmarking – 9686F outclasses Nvidia's Vera, dual EPYC 9996 with 1,024 threads delivers up to 93% performance gain gen-on-gen

Anthropic to Seek $1.3 Trillion Valuation in IPO

Anthropic to Proceed With IPO Roadshow Next Week

3 takeaways from the big AI report on Anthropic everyone is talking about

Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money

OpenAI Completes $11 Billion Portion of Funding at $1.25 Trillion Value

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

Google touts AI breakthrough, path to "unhackable" software

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google Won't Give Schools the One Thing They Want

AI teddy for three-year-olds gave unprompted self-harm reply, BBC finds

United Airlines Is Banning AI Bots From Booking Flights

Alex Karp says he's a lifelong Democrat — and Palantir's products are 'essentially progressive'

I Used NYT Cooking's New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It's Actually Pretty Good

Spelunkr - cable TV but weirder

danah boyd: No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.

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Munich's Alguth Stone

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ash Hart

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Leo is back! From Patch Tuesday's 1000+ vulnerabilities to the relentless updates and evolving Windows features, the conversation lays bare how quickly the desktop is being reinvented, with hybrid AI and hardware hiccups included! Local AI does not rise to the challenge, hampering RTX Spark. Plus, Paul has finally started incorporating AI into his work.

Windows

Patch Tuesday: Minor improvements across 25H2/26H2 and 26H1

Five new builds on Friday, just one notable feature change

Clipchamp is still the reigning king of easy-to-use but powerful video editors

Microsoft Edge and Widgets in Windows 11 get a new Discover feed

Opera now has over 100 million users on desktop

Vivaldi completely rewrites its tracker and ad blockers on desktop and mobile

Qualcomm earnings: Waiting on the datacenter to save the company

HP OmniBook Ultra 16 review - RTX Spark is here

AI and dev

No one expected Jensen Huang to be the problem with Big AI

After a powerful set of updates, now you can use Google Antigravity for productivity, too

Adobe opens up to third-party AI assistants, expands partnerships with Microsoft and Google

New Linux distribution promises to out-AI Windows 11 - a few thoughts about how AI will benefit Linux

.NET 11 arrives at .NET Conf 2026

Discord is rewriting its app in Rust and you're not going to believe what happens next

XBOX and gaming

The new XBOX Nano Controller comes with an awesome surprise

The new XBOX app is here on Windows 11, mobile, and cloud, and it's much faster

AutoSR comes to AMD-based Copilot+ PCs, ROG XBOX Ally gaming handhelds

You can preload GTA VI now

EA remasters classic games in Ultima and Wing Commander series, more

Nintendo: 6.49 million Switch units

Sony: 2.6 million PS5 units - now over 100 million units cumulatively

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Do it for free

App pick of the week: AI

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paul Thurrott

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From hacked French refrigerators igniting fires to a massive OpenSSH authentication bug hiding in plain sight for a decade, this week's stories expose how lapses in basic security ripple into chaos—and why AI is now both a weapon and shield.

TA surprising announcement regarding SpinRite.

What is being "AI-pilled" and how does it happen.

OpenAI just released GPT-6 Cyber. What does that mean.

An irresponsible hacker published 30+ N-Able 0-days.

700 French refrigerators hacked. What's next.

Lots of listener feedback about the Cloudflare tunneling solution, Voyager 1, true hardware drive encryption, the random number 4 and the amount of debris in orbit

Then we look at a 10-year old serious SSH authentication bug (that's kinda wonderful)

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1104-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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