Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss claims that artificial intelligence (AI) will ultimately reduce wages to the point of causing economic collapse. Then, they revisit the controversy surrounding the DeepSeek AI large language model (LLM), developed in China using relatively inexpensive IT infrastructure.

Lastly, the gang looks ahead to Q-Day -- when advances in quantum computing possibly break existing encryption.