This Week in Tech 1105: Agents Gone Wild

Windows unveiled its Surface Laptop Ultra & Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at its recent Surface event. Google's SynthID Detector is open to everyone now to check for AI-made media. OpenAI agents attempted to hack Wikipedia and its tools to make unauthorized edits. And AI tools are now flooding into underground cybercrime markets. - Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double. - Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event. - Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it. - Google opens SynthID Detector to everyone to check for AI-made media. - Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to create a 'virtual cell'. - OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads. - OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic. - Anthropic AI model went rogue, submitted fake unsolved murder tip. - OpenAI is pissing off a bunch of mathematicians — again. - Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt. - Hackers steal 8 million citizens' records from Danish government database. - AI tools flood into underground cybercrime markets. - Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts. - FBI arrests founder of ransomware negotiation firm. - These midterm races will decide data centers' political fate. - Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating "Skydance" behemoth. - HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service". - Spotify opens new front in war on fair use. - The U.S. Army's desert tech test shows long road to AI warfare. - The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear. - Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX seek blockbuster debt deals to pay for AI chips. - A mysterious nonprofit run by SpaceXAI's top lawyer is paying the salaries of government workers. - Man vs. 'Terminator'-like robot in a cage. California called tt illegal. - The inside story of Roku's sale to Fox. **Host:** Leo Laporte **Guests:** Wesley Faulkner, Richard Campbell, and Janko Roettgers Download or subscribe to *This Week in Tech* at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech **Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!** Support what you love and get ad-free audio *and* video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit **Sponsors:** - claude.ai/technology - bitwarden.com/twit - threatlocker.com/twit - joindeleteme.com/twit-biz - ZipRecruiter.com/twit