To kick off the new year, Steve Dufour and I chatted about:

• Steve's expertise in copying and pasting hundreds of lines from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), because ChatGPT couldn't parse it.
• The late December 2025 ​Waymo outage​.
• Cops Forced to ​Explain​ Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog.
• Manus AI's ​acquisition​.
• AI hampering ​productivity​ of software developers, despite expectations it would boost efficiency.
• ​Impacts​ of AI on language, media, and culture.
• Our 2026 predictions for AI