Host Leo Laporte is joined by Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and me! We do a post-mortem on Black Friday. We dig into record online sales, shaky in store traffic, and the tricks retailers use to turn inflated prices and AI shopping tools into “record breaking” headlines. From defense tech stumbles at Anduril to China leapfrogging the US on “open” AI models, the we point out how a shortage of shame runs through everything from autonomous weapons to space data center fantasies and EV pullbacks.
You will also hear our honest takes on Trump’s Silicon Valley powered AI agenda, the Warner Music and Suno AI music deal, leaks about ads coming to ChatGPT, and rumors of a Jony Ive and Sam Altman hardware device, plus why Roblox, spying cars, and out of control RAM prices all point to the same broken incentives.