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Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time

This week, with news that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Texas’ age verification law for app stores, we check in on how social media bans are going around the globe and what may be coming soon to a state near you. Then, we’re joined by Jeff Sebo, an associate professo ...  Show more

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Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama

This week, the Commerce Department lifted its restrictions on Anthropic’s powerful A.I. models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable. We dissect why the government took such a hands-on approach in the first place, how the restriction on the OpenAI model GPT 5.6 is likely to resolve and ...  Show more

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