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Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The future isn't just smarter models, but everyday tech that learns exactly how you work.

• Hermes AI agent's launch, mass adoption, and personalized capabilities

• Open source vs. proprietary AI: model access, privacy, and funding hurdles

• Apple's next-gen Siri and agentic platform ambitions unpacked

• Noose Research model development, Nvidia partnerships, and training challenges

• The risk of an "AI underclass" and ethics in model distribution

• Anthropic's Fable release: strict guardrails, silent model downgrades, and open source tensions

• Local models vs. cloud LLMs: cost, effectiveness, and practical tuning

• Community-driven iterating: Hermes' rapid product evolution and user obsession

• Vatican's AI encyclical: church perspectives on AI, morality, and the common good

• AGI arrival debate: economic thresholds, capabilities, and human uniqueness

• The reality of AI hallucinations, agent accuracy, and responsible usage

• Legal fallout over AI-generated hallucinations in court filings

• AI's growing role in Hollywood contracts and labor protections

• Google's Gemini 3 live translation impresses but raises privacy flags

• German courts label Google AI overviews as publisher speech, liability looms

• AI detection tools like Pangram face scrutiny in real-world writing and education

• Google Dream Beans app tests the limits of digital personal recommendations

• Picks of the Week: Reddit AMA, Dream Beans, basketball and retro gaming, research critiques

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

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If you think code is safe from automation, think again. This week's discussion tackles why the rise of vibe coding and AI-powered tools could upend long-held beliefs about software development, with even seasoned pros rethinking their roles. Also, a new C++ documentary is worth watching!

Windows

After a weekend of Build session viewing, two big takeaways!

Vibe coding native Windows apps and a new reactive dev model for WinUI will help to make modern app dev easier for everyone

A new theory emerges: The real reason Microsoft is fixing Windows 11 is that it needs this foundation for a future of hybrid AI agents. And hybrid means more than just local + cloud.

Patch Tuesday is here! As promised, Microsoft fixed a record number of security issues thanks to AI

24H2/25H2: Shared audio, more NPU in Task Manager, multi-app camera support, user folder name choice in OOBE, more

26H1: Xbox Mode, Drop tray, etc.

Windows Insider Program: New 26H1 Beta channel added for some reason

Dell now sells a Windows Hello ESS-compatible wired mouse

AI

WWDC 2026: Apple announced vibe-coding advances for normal users (Safari extensions) and developers (Xcode). Paul used Xcode and Claude Code to create a full-featured Markdown editor app in about 12-15 minutes.

Google drops the price of AI Plus plan to $4.99 per month, raises storage to 400 GB and announces new NotebookLM capabilities

Proton Drive is coming to Linux, has a new SDK, and now has a new CLI too. We're going to need a CLI section in the show notes.

XBOX and gaming

Microsoft Games Showcase: It needed to be a big day for Xbox and it was

Microsoft showed off Halo: Campaign Evolved, Gears of War E-Day, Fable, and a lot more

Some games will be console-exclusive in the future, starting with the new Gears

Microsoft will sell a limited edition Xbox Series X25 later this year

Xbox leadership is exploring new business models for the next console - Game Pass lost "millions" of subscribers after last year's price hikes

Xbox Insider update adds a new way to discover mutual friends, more

Valve says the Steam Machine and Steam Frame will ship this summer

Tips and picks

Tip of the week: Windows 11 Field Guide is being updated to 2026 edition

App pick of the week: Brave Origin

RunAs Radio this week: How Machine Learning Fails with Megan Robertson

Brown liquor pick of the week: Thy Bøg

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell

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Discover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster than defenders can respond.

Was a U.S. law firm right to pay a $20 million ransom.

Could Cisco have yet another SD-WAN 0-day in the wild.

Why is it so difficult to author secure PHP code.

Teens use "WeedHack" to spy and attack each other.

Researchers create the first AI-enabled Internet worm.

Google Chrome pops-up "Shop with confidence." What...

The discovered and irresponsibly disclosed HTTP/2 Bomb.

What Anthropic learns from their past year of Claude abuse: It's bad

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1082-Notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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Apple held its big WWDC 2026 keynote and introduced the new Siri AI for iOS 27, with sign-ups now available for the iOS 27 beta. However, Siri AI will be delayed in the EU for iOS and iPadOS 27. Liquid Glass has some opt-in options to roll back elements of the design. And Apple highlights its commitment to child safety with new child-safety features in its operating systems.

WWDC 2026: Everything announced on Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more.

iOS 27 tidbits: share a phone number on two iPhones, independent alarm volume, faster AirPlay and more.

OS overview - top OS features.

Apple previews new child safety features.

Introducing the third generation of Apple's foundation models.

New dummy units give our closest look yet at the iPhone Fold.

visionOS 27 features a new Thórsmörk Environment.

Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27.

No tech rule exemption for Apple, EU regulators say amid spat over Siri AI delay.

Picks of the Week

Leo's Pick: Optimized Pancakes

Andy's Pick: PhotoRec

Christina's Pick: Chipotlai Max

Mikah's Pick: "The Chaos" (1922) by Gerard Nolst Trenité

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Christina Warren

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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An astronomical amount of money is being poured into AI and data centers as tech giants fight for dominance, but is this fueling the next big tech bubble or just the price of staying in the game? Get the panel's opinions on wild IPO valuations, global power grabs, Build 2026, NVIDIA GTC Taipei, and even successful YouTuber movies!

SpaceX IPO to Be Largest Ever at $135 Share Price

Utah residents sue officials over Kevin O'Leary data center plan

When AI builds itself

NVIDIA announces RTX Spark as 'the most efficient PC chip ever built'

Major Homebuilder To Test Placing Mini Data Centers in Suburban Backyards

Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

What to Expect at Apple's WWDC 2026: iOS 27, New Siri and AI

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models

Trump: U.S. stake in AI giants "could be a beautiful thing"

Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers

Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data

YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar

YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Joey de Villa, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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