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Marketplace All-in-One - AI-powered chatbots sent some users into a spiral

AI psychosis became a thing in 2025. That's when a chatbot leads a user into a delusional spiral.


The technology's tendency to affirm what people say can result in conversations that become untethered from reality and, in the worst cases, has ended with real-world harms. Kashmir Hill has been reporting on this phenomenon for The New York Times.


Content warning: This episode includes mention of self harm and suicide.

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Up First from NPR - Trump Pushes Hamas Disarmament, Ukraine Peace Talks, A Year Of DOGE

President Trump doubles down on demanding Hamas disarm after meeting with Israel’s prime minister, and warned Iran not to rebuild its nuclear program.
Ukraine’s president presses the White House for decades-long U.S. security guarantees as part of a proposed peace deal with Russia.
And a year after DOGE’s push to shrink government, agencies are smaller, spending is higher, and millions of Americans’ data remains in play.

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(03:13) Trump Pushes Hamas Disarmament 
(07:25) Ukraine Peace Talks 
(10:45) A Year Of DOGE 

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The Daily - Family Separation 2.0: An Update

This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since.

In his first 100 days in office this term, President Trump struggled to fulfill his promise to carry out mass deportations, a reality that has prompted his administration to change its strategy.

Rather than putting its focus on migrants with a criminal record, or those who recently crossed the border, the White House is increasingly seeking to deport those who came to the United States decades ago and who have established a life, career and family in America.

Jessica Cheung, a producer on “The Daily,” tells the story of one such migrant through the eyes of his daughter.

Guest: Jessica Cheung, a senior producer at The New York Times, working on “The Daily.”

Background reading: 

Photo: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.30.25

Alabama

  • Alabama House Pro-Tem Questions the Cost of the West Alabama Corridor Project
  • Appeals Court Overturns Alabama Judge’s Ruling on the Corporate Transparency Act
  • Sen. Katie Britt Warns of Social Media and AI Dangers to Teens
  • Prelim Hearing Set for Cullman’s Wastewater Treatment Superintendent
  • Georgia Woman Shot by Police in Dekalb County, Alabama After Chase
  • Alabama State Parks to Offer First Day Hikes
  • 100 Room Hotel Approved for Perdido Beach Blvd in Orange Beach
  • District 25 Senator Will Barfoot to Run for Seat in New District
  • Woman Abducted at Gunpoint from Tuscaloosa Convenience Store
  • Suspect in Georgia Robbery Captured After Search in Centre

National

  • Minnesota Judge Receiving Criticism for Overturning $7 Million Fraud Conviction
  • New Report Says That Iran is Again Trying to Develop Chemical and Biological Warheads
  • Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s Office Pushes Back Against Fraud Allegations
  • China Launches Most Extensive Military Exercises Ever Around Taiwan
  • US Pledges $2 Billion for U.N. Humanitarian Aid
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Pod Save America - Is JD Vance the Republican Front-Runner?

Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy answer your questions about the upcoming midterms, early bets on 2028, what they got wrong about this year, and Lovett's future reality television career. Then, they listen back to their 2024 New Year's resolutions and set ones they hope to actually keep in 2025.


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WSJ Tech News Briefing - Is the AI Revolution Slowing Down? What to Expect in 2026

As we look ahead to next year, CEOs are doubling down on AI spending despite growing investor fears of a bubble. We break down the latest data and trends on AI with WSJ tech reporters Belle Lin and Chip Cutter, along with enterprise technology bureau chief at the WSJ Leadership Institute Steven Rosenbush. Plus, we discuss the next major battlegrounds for AI regulation, growing energy demands, and preview the impact on the job market. Danny Lewis hosts.


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Short Wave - Climate Anxiety Is Altering Family Planning

Gen Z and younger millennials are generally the most climate literate generations. As an age cohort that started learning about climate change in school, they're worried about how to plan for their future jobs, houses and, yes, kids. With climate-related disasters and global warming likely to worsen, climate anxiety is giving way to reproductive anxiety. So, what do experts say about how to navigate the kid question?

On this encore episode of Nature Quest, Short Wave speaks to Alessandra Ram, a journalist covering climate change, who just had a kid. We get into the future she sees for her newborn daughter and ask, how do we raise the next generation in a way that's good for the planet?

Here are the resources recommended by the experts we interviewed for this story:

Action Tools and Community Resources

Books and Research Papers


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NPR's Book of the Day - A new novel from Karen Russell is a sprawling story set during the Dust Bowl

As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. Karen Russell’s novel The Antidote is set during the Dust Bowl – a period when poor farming practices and drought led to a wave of severe and damaging dust storms. In this bleak setting, we’re introduced to a cast of characters, including a woman who stores other people’s memories and a photographer tasked with documenting the crisis. In today’s episode, Russell speaks with NPR’s Scott Simon about the inspiration behind The Antitode’s core characters, including the work of photographer Gordon Parks and an image that came to Russell as she finished her first novel.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - 2025: The Movie(s) of the Year

If you were to sum up 2025 in a film, which would you pick? The question that nearly wrecked the brain of Slate’s chief movie critic.

Guest: Dana Stevens, Slate’s movie critic.

Dana’s ten best movies of 2025.

Her review of Sinners.

And her review of One Battle After Another.

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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