Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

October 07IM 891: Previously on Swarm Chasers - Digital Swarms and the Persistence Problem
From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their actions matters more than ever.
AMistral CEO interview (use Translate)

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Profile of Mark Zuckerberg

Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999

Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

Court Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played

They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue

AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

Google announces SynthID Detector

Fortune headline: "I wrote The Future of Truth, and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes. I've chosen to fight back."

Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.

How A.I. Can Boost Democracy

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Normal Tools

Gina's Make Great Software

Paul Theroux: True North

Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Spencer Thompson

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3 hr 15 min
September 30IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs
What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.
DevDay 2026 Recap

Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

(7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X

OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

"I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang

Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System

NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring

Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI

AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI

Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr

Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes

Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac

AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds

Mac-mini-powered Cray

Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears

SF Currently

This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York

Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich

Taco Bell finder

Where to watch the Musk doc

Jeff's book talk in Mass.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mike Gannotti

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2 hr 53 min
September 23IM 889: We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning
Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep missing.
Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety

MetaConnect on during the show

Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more

Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series

Google CC

I'm Upping My P(Doom)

Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud

Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy

On 'Cupertino,' Creators of the 'The Good Wife' Go to Silicon Valley

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Patrick Hillmann

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2 hr 38 min
September 16IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate
Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.
Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet

(4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X

Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine

Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'

They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

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

Guest: Lon Seidman

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2 hr 42 min
September 09IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul
As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought.
Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts

Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears

An Alien Mind

Muse - Your Personal AI Agent

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation's Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools

Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls on Trial in October Movie Pileup

chat jimmy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Matthew Cassinelli

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2 hr 22 min
September 02IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone
Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.
Judge Rules on Google Ads Case

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India

Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk

OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns

Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?

OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire

Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera

Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai

YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links

Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search

I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help

MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality

Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more

(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

Unusual Suspects

Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers

Archived video

CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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2 hr 44 min
August 26IM 885: Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs?
With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?
(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X

Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal

Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children

Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content

Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'

(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X

Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI

A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.

Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind

Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.

Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Co-Host: Christina Warren

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2 hr 23 min
August 19IM 884: Cyber Jim - Why Critical Infrastructure Depends on Obsessive Code Reviews
Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse.
Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter

(272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X

If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them

Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI

Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow

Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside

So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?

LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T

New Chinese model adds to AI competition

What happens to what you share with AI

Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training

Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

the wikipedia guessing game

Okay Spielberg TikTok

At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer

SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dan O'Dowd

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2 hr 36 min
August 12IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks
Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.
How Claude marks AI-generated content

Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone

Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device

Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet

OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300

Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion

High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating

Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Riot Platforms

US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon

Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language

Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive

Wired: Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News

"* David Corn: I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad."

Yea or Nay

BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: "F*** This"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nicholas De Leon

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2 hr 36 min
August 03IM 882: AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker
Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

Altman says he supports AI regulation

Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC

White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI

Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun

As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?

The Red-Hot Book at the Center of an AI Mystery

A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year

The Autonomous Press - Numbered Papers

Musk's latest ridiculous prediction: Optimus better than human surgeons in 4 years

The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Phillip Shoemaker

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2 hr 30 min

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