This is the Daily Tech News Show for Monday, December 29th, 2025 in Los Angeles.

I'm Tom Merritt. Why am I here alone? Because it's time to wrap up the year.

2025's almost out the door. We saw so many big tech stories this year, taking the headlines for DTNS, from broad public skepticism over

artificial intelligence to the increasing costs in computer components and devices as companies

invest huge sums into data centers, the biggest data centers to ever roam the earth.

So Joe put together our best conversations that we've had all year long, plus some of the more

pithy comments from this year's live with it and put them all together here for you to enjoy.

So please enjoy our look at the best of 2025.

Mollywood, have you played around with The Operator at all?

You're like, where do we even start with this?

I know.

I was like, there's so much.

I have not played around with Operator because I am not interested in paying $200 a month to try it out,

but also because I have migrated almost completely to Claude. I just don't have enough faith, frankly, in ChatGBT

BT's privacy and ethical practices to keep using it. I do think that operator, I mean, for those

who do use it, it does sound pretty promising. Oh, for sure.

And I think that the like agentic world, apparently we call it that, which is just fun to say, agentic.

We're inventing a new language around this.

I think the agentic world is going to be freaking awesome, right?

Like as a person who read the Diamond Age by Neil

Stevenson early on, I want the young ladies primer immediately. I want the thing that is just out

there on the internet acting as my behalf and giving, and frankly, that is how I use Claude right now.

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