March 18, 2026

Intelligent Machines 862: Ménage à Claude

3 hours

Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence.

Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software

Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere

Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding

Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion

Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web

Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw

Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI

Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for

both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat

Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

OpenAI, Musk and Focus

A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model

Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze

Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot

AI Agent Hacks McKinsey

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity

AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion

A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case

Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report

Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot

Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96

CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?

We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak.

I tried BigArch. A big mess.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rumman Chowdhury

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