TWiT 1105: Agents Gone Wild - Windows' New Surface Laptop Ultra & RTX Spark Dev Box!

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.

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