Teach Your AI Assistant a Voice Shortcut to Control Your Smart Speakers
Adam’s follow-up tip of the day in the same segment — he calls it “the sexier tip.” Rather than fighting with a smart-speaker app’s own controls (he…
Grok — Ask It to Find and Clip Any Podcast Audio Instantly
Darren’s real-world Grok use case: he asked it about Keith Olbermann’s “Trump wrote me a fan letter” claim, then asked it to find and clip the exact…
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What It Actually Costs to Run AI Locally — Mac Studio vs. Nvidia DGX Spark
Gene ran the real numbers on ditching cloud AI for your own hardware. A maxed-out Mac Studio (M5 Ultra, 256GB RAM, 8TB SSD) runs about $14,000. The…
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Muse, Part 3 — Trip Planning, Recipe Tweaks, and Outsmarting Amazon’s Own Pricing
Adam’s been on Meta’s Muse for a couple of weeks now and calls it outstanding. Real examples from the show: it’s helping plan his upcoming Malaysia trip,…
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AI Pricing Engines Are Already Setting Your Price — McDonald’s, Chipotle, and the Lyft/Uber Precedent
Andrew’s take on where AI is headed fast: McDonald’s has built an “AI pricing engine” that sets a different price for the same Big Mac at stores…
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GrokBot — A Secondhand “My Life Has Changed” Story
J.Cal relayed an unprompted testimonial from a friend of his wife’s — a single mom working from home in Dallas — about Grok’s AI agent: “She says,…
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Muse — Meta’s New AI Agent App
Adam Curry’s wife Tina has been using Meta’s new AI agent app, Muse, and Adam was genuinely impressed by how she’s putting it to work — not…
Odysseus: The Fall — A Feature Film Made by One Guy for Under $25,000
Dana and Adam dug into a CNBC segment about Odysseus: The Fall, a two-and-a-half-hour, fully AI-generated retelling of the Odyssey from Fountain 0’s Ash Koosha and Tom…
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Grok Auto-Configured a Home Router’s Guest Network
A smaller, very practical AI use case: Gene had Grok add a separate guest network for his IoT devices. He pointed it at the router’s admin page,…
Dave’s Garage — YouTube Channel
A genuine shout-out from Darren for Dave’s Garage, a YouTube channel run by a former Microsoft engineer credited with inventing Task Manager. Darren watches a couple videos…
ASUS Ascent GX10 — The Machine Now Partly Running the No Agenda Show
Producer Eric Timmer, out of Austin, sent Adam an ASUS Ascent GX10 — NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with 128GB of unified memory — after it had…
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Dropbox, Grokbot, and Eggbot — Dana Brunetti’s AI Workflow
Dana Brunetti’s actual Tip of the Day pick: anyone building AI agents/bots beyond a basic ChatGPT or Claude chat session should look at Dropbox specifically for how…
Adam Built His Own Podcast Production Software With Omarchy Linux — in 25 Minutes
Adam described the free, open-source Linux setup his own studio runs on: “The install is Omarchy… You download it onto a USB stick, stick it in your…
Breeze TTS 2 Is the Local Voice AI Worth Downloading Right Now
Darren spent the top of the show showing off Breeze TTS 2, a brand-new open-source text-to-speech model ported to run locally on Apple Silicon via MLX. The…
Tip of the Day: KIMI.com – FREE Unbiased AI
John Dvorak recommends KIMI.com to get AI without bias that seems built into ChatGPT and other popular AI platforms. KIMI is from China and seems to have…
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Tip of the Day: HotPot.ai AI Tool Suite
John Dvorak’s AI tip is HotPot.ai for a comprehensive suite of useful image and productivity tools. It’s got large selection of tools to generate images, graphics and…
Tip of the Day: Marcus on AI – Substack.com
Interested in investing in AI but don’t want to be taken down when the bubble inevitably bursts? John Dvorak recommends you read Gary Marcus on Substack.com (garymarcus.substack.com).…
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
John Dvorak thinks author, Nate Soares is a piece of work after a recent interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous. In the interview, Soares discussed his book, If…
