Host Jim Love returns after the holidays.

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The episode covers ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator, which is producing highly realistic, film-quality scenes and prompting alarm in Hollywood, including comments from screenwriter Rhett Reese and renewed concerns about likeness rights and AI use in entertainment; ByteDance says it is strengthening safeguards to prevent unauthorized use of intellectual property and likenesses. The show reports that Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source agent tool OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI and the project is becoming part of a foundation for future agent-based AI, while also highlighting OpenClaw's widely discussed security weaknesses and the implications for OpenAI and competitor Anthropic. Western Digital is reported to be sold out of certain hard drive models as AI-related demand absorbs supply, following earlier GPU and memory price pressures. Finally, Ring's Super Bowl ad about finding a lost dog drew criticism for promoting neighborhood camera networks that resemble