Articles mentioned in this episode: Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky Swear These Extremists Are Running for Election in November A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization The White House is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird Why No One Wants To Date Tech Bros You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett, Zoë Schiffer on Bluesky at @zoeschiffer, and Leah Feiger on Bluesky at @leahfeiger. Write to us at [email protected].
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