AI Special Report

Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill

## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill** (Wired AI) - [Read more](https://www.wired.com/story/illinois-pass-major-ai-safety-law-pritzker/) - **Gridcare thinks more than 100 GW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid** (TechCrunch AI) - [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/gridcare-thinks-more-than-100-gw-of-data-center-capacity-is-hiding-in-the-grid/) - **How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change** (TechCrunch AI) - [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/how-one-ai-startup-is-helping-rice-farmers-battle-climate-change/) --- *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*

Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website** (Ars Technica AI) - [Read more](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/why-reddit-blocked-my-daily-visit-to-its-mobile-website/) - **Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend** (Wired AI) - [Read more](https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-spark-ai-agent-hands-on/) - **The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic** (Wired AI) - [Read more](https://www.wired.com/story/the-vaticans-man-inside-anthropic/) --- *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*

A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale

## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale** (Ars Technica AI) - [Read more](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/a-hacker-group-is-poisoning-open-source-code-at-an-unprecedented-scale/) - **Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"** (Ars Technica AI) - [Read more](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/) - **The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic** (Wired AI) - [Read more](https://www.wired.com/story/the-vaticans-man-inside-anthropic/) --- *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code** (Ars Technica AI) - [Read more](https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/fed-up-with-vibe-coders-dev-sneaks-data-nuking-prompt-injection-into-their-code/) - **Here Comes Ojai, Waymo’s New Chinese-Made Robotaxi** (Wired AI) - [Read more](https://www.wired.com/story/here-comes-ojai-waymos-new-chinese-made-robotaxi/) - **Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"** (Ars Technica AI) - [Read more](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/) --- *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*

Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers

## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers** (TechCrunch AI) - [Read more](https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign-cameras-use-ai-to-root-out-unsafe-drivers/) - **Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package** (Ars Technica AI) - [Read more](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/) - **Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment** (VentureBeat AI) - [Read more](https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in) --- *Sponsored by LimitLess AI*