Amazon is determined to turn Alexa Plus into a do-everything AI assistant that can compete with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and the rest. But after a year of testing, The Verge's Jen Tuohy has mixed feelings on how it's all going. And on whether a new tablet is the right way to fix it.Further reading: It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains GTA VI leaks continue with a lengthy (and very nude) gameplay video GTA VI will have in-game podcasts and at least six radio

Israel ordered the British Consulate General in East Jerusalem closed after the UK banned imports from West Bank settlements. Twenty diplomats left, seven stayed, the plaque came down — and both governments are telling their publics they won. So what is the legal status of an office that is no longer an embassy, a consulate, or a consulate general? We walk through the 1961 and 1963 Vienna Conventions, the interests-section model invented during Rhodesia's 1965 UDI, and Israel's own decades-old

Robin Hanson didn't invent the idea of a martingale process. The lilim say that Ville in 1939 gave the term its mathematical meaning and Doob turned it into the modern theory. But to state this is not to realize that your own probability assignments over time ought to form a martingale in your own expectations. Robin Hanson didn't invent the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, which (correctly restated in its weak and relativized form) says that you cannot predict almost all of the short-term relative

Roughly half the world's steel comes out of China, and the plants making it split into two almost unrelated industries: blast furnace ironmaking and electric arc recycling. That split explains why a mill in India looks nothing like a guided tour in Britain, why worker health outcomes vary by a factor of 77,500 between individual plants, and why sintering and blast furnaces pollute from completely different chimneys. This episode walks through the global production map, the documented health toll on

Some information arrives at a decision already carrying several invisible edits. Not because someone falsified it. Because someone handed it over.This episode examines Handover Edit — the quiet change in emphasis, certainty, context and interpretation that occurs as information moves from one person to another. A sentence can remain technically accurate while becoming strategically different.A qualification disappears.An uncertainty becomes a commitment.A context becomes a footnote.A footnote

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Today in the business of podcasting:Tom Webster says AI is the average machine, so hand it the routine podcasting work like show notes, transcripts and ad ops, and protect the human work of host-read ads and the show itself.WARC forecasts global ad spend will grow 11.9% to $1.34 trillion in 2026, with social, search and retail media taking 66.4% of spend and growth slowing to 8.4% in 2027.A new tool called Pod Is Life combines podcast charts from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Castbox and Pocket

Michael Nadeau, founder of The DeFi Report, joins John Gillen to explain why he believes Bitcoin has already bottomed, why the current correction could be a healthy retest before the next major rally, and why he's almost fully invested despite growing macroeconomic uncertainty. With Bitcoin testing key support levels around $78,000-$83,000, Nadeau breaks down the onchain data, institutional ETF inflows, and market structure signals that have convinced him we're entering the early stages of a

Title: AgentLeak: Cloning Stronger LLM Agent Capabilities onto Weaker Agents Beyond Skill StealingSource: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07131v1Summary:This paper introduces a novel methodology for transferring complex agentic capabilities from frontier LLM agents to smaller, resource-efficient models beyond standard skill acquisition. It advances agent efficiency and distillation paradigms by enabling weaker models to replicate long-horizon reasoning and decision-making capabilities.

Never bet against Elon. Jordan Jefferson says if you can't see us getting to Mars, you're not going to make it, and Dogecoin ends up the currency when we do. He breaks down the DogeOS public testnet going live, shuts down the conspiracy that Elon is pumping Doge, and argues the only memecoin still in the hands of the people might just melt faces and take the whole industry. TJ Miller plays jester throughout, explaining why he roasts a different crypto figure at every conference and what it

In this Automation World podcast, we’re joined by Vention's Brendan Sterne to explore how usability and accessibility are helping drive trends in industrial cobots and robotics. We dive into how manufacturers can create that environment where "anyone can program" and why that's important for realizing success in modern industrial spaces. We also touch on the common challenges manufacturers face in this space and how holistic solutions can mitigate those pitfalls.

The Moonbirds and StonkBrokers SockBrokers collaboration sparked a divided reaction, raising a bigger question about whether NFT projects need more fun, experimental activations instead of constant expectations for major utility or payouts. The conversation compares that approach with Abstract's planned shutdown and explores new top-level domain applications, including .agent and .ape. SimpleFarmer joins later to explain the planned onchain mechanics behind SockBrokers and share updates on St...

did the CIA invent bitcoin? bob burnett says it doesn't matter and explains why. george bodine, who held a top secret clearance and loaded nuclear weapons on hornets, explains why a secret that big doesn't stay secret. gary leland has a theory about gavin newsom.then: should you hold bitcoin in your 401(k)? the boomers compare ETFs, IRAs and self-custody, and george tells you the one number that's always wrong. larry lepard is on puppy duty this week. he'll be back. 0:00 cold open 0:38 welcome

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Mahama Commissions Nestlé Ghana’s Multi-Million Dollar Expansion, Hails 24-Hour Economy in ActionInternal Rivalry for 2028 Leadership Silencing NDC Members, Says Bobie-AnsahMassive Blaze Rips Through Chinese Tyre Recycling Plant in Afienya Industrial ZoneBank of Ghana Blacklists 20 Unlicensed Mobile Loan Apps Over Privacy Violations“Baseless and Noisy” — Sports Ministry Slams Minority Over 2026 World Cup Visa Scandal Allegations“You Don’t Have to Die to Go to Heaven” — Mzbel Backs Archbishop

Scott Aaronson said AI labs had started testing whether their newest models could break cryptography, and Vitalik Buterin urged taking it seriously. Anthropic launched Haiku 5.5, Google unveiled a universal Gemini agent, and Microsoft opened Surface Laptop Ultra preorders.A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have started investigating whether their latest internal models can break cryptographic protocols (Shtetl-Optimized) Vitalik Buterin backs Justin Drake’s

Is your enterprise network truly ready for AI — or are GPUs getting all the attention? In this episode we break down why AI readiness depends on more than compute power, and why networking, private connectivity, latency, security, automation and network as a service are becoming critical to enterprise AI success. Guests Brandon Ross of DE-CIX and Bill Long of Zayo explain how agentic AI, real-time inference, AI-powered customer care, analytics and large-scale data movement are changing what

Abstract, the Ethereum L2 built by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo, is shutting down Dec 15 after tens of millions in losses, days after Blast announced its own wind-down and Google said it is exiting node hosting. We break down why app-specific chains keep failing and what it means for institutions deciding where to build.~This episode is sponsored by Tangem~Tangem ➜ https://bit.ly/TangemPBNUse Code: "PBN" for Additional Discounts!00:00 Intro00:10 Sponsor: Tangem00:45 Abstract Shutdown01:00 L2

Corey and Grant sit down with Mammoth Biosciences co-founder and CEO Dr. Trevor Martin to explain how CRISPR is moving from a laboratory tool toward one-time medicines. Trevor breaks down how Mammoth searches massive biological datasets for new CRISPR systems, why AI is useful but still constrained by missing clinical data, and what it would take to build a feedback loop between AI models, wet labs, and human trials. The conversation also covers personalized medicine, the economics of one-time