From "gainfully employed robots" to AI that accidentally ruins lives, this week's conversation unpacks the real-world fallout of futuristic promises. Leo, JPT, Iain, and Richard tackle energy sources, social media effects, tech layoffs, and the algorithms quietly taking charge.<ul> 
<li>Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount</li> 
<li>Meta Said to Push Back Launch of Avocado Model</li> 
<li>Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children</li> 
<li>Trump administration will reportedly get $10 billion for brokering the TikTok deal</li> 
<li>Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside</li> 
<li>Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam</li> 
<li>X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation</li> 
<li>Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X</li> 
<li>Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion</li> 
<li>Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform</li> 
<li>Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots</li> 
<li>Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases</li> 
<li>DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery</li> 
<li>U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court</li> 
<li>Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them</li> 
<li>EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes (related to the plug-in solar story)</li> 
<li>TerraPower gets permit to build reactor</li> 
<li>Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'</li> 
<li>Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud</li> 
<li>Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case</li> 
<li>Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power</li> 
<li>Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff</li> 
<li>How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world</li> 
<li>'Flying Cars' Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer</li> 
<li>YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue</li> 
<li>Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns</li> 
<li>Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them</li> 
<li>Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92</li></ul> 
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