May 13, 2026

Intelligent Machines 870: Meet Me In Alaska

2 hours 43 minutes

British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

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(20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X

NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA

Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push

VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.

Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of

Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online

Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year

Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools

The new Wild West of AI kids' toys

Internet Archive Switzerland

Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google

Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.

The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

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Hallucinopedia

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Sand shortage

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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