Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart... more

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January 28, 2026IM 855: When You're Right, You're Right - Why Firefox Still Matters
Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.
State of Mozilla 2025/26

Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash

Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini

Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen

I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

Proof of Corn

Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says

How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence

Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models

Claude's new constitution

"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?

Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mark Surman

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2h 31min
January 21, 2026IM 854: Welcome to the Pitt - AI: A Brand or a Breakthrough?
Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.
Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI

NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year

Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus

Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status'

Claude's new constitution

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Thomas Haigh

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2h 18min
January 14, 2026IM 853: All The Clocks Were Wrong - The Rise and Fall of Fact-Checking
Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Claude Code

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools

Introducing Cowork

"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars

Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin

Creepy Link

Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis

Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California

J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

Postal Arbitrage

New protein tests

The Traitors Season 4

WikiFlix

MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms

'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Silverman

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2h 55min
January 07, 2026IM 852: Gluten-free Slop - AI at CES 2026
Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?
NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle

No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images

Introducing ChatGPT Health

'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic

Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism

The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all

2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs

Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"

Stanford's AI class on YouTube

Tamiflu

Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere)

Happy birthday Nic Cage

Floor796

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jason Hiner

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2h 40min
December 28, 2025IM 851: Intelligent Machines Best of 2025 - Our Favorite Interviews from 2025
Our interviews with:
Ray Kurzweil

Alex Hanna

Emily Bender

Mike Masnick

Pliny the Liberator

Kevin Kelly

Host: Leo Laporte

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3h 57min
December 17, 2025IM 850: Bagel Rats - Open Source AI Rising
Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look eerily similar.
CJ Trowbridge - cjtrowbridge.com - https://www.tiktok.com/@cjtrowbridge
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI

Last Week on My Mac: How good is AI at solving Mac problems?

Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year': the Architects of AI - Slashdot

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control

Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training

Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads

It's beginning to look a lot like (AI) Christmas

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal

This major cruise line just banned Meta Ray-Ban and other smart glasses — is this category already doomed?

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

Oscars Bolts from ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029

When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models

Simulating Life Paths with Digital Twins: AI-Generated Future Selves Influence Decision-Making and Expand Human Choice

The worst person in tech bracket

Banned fonts

Subway bagel rats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: CJ Trowbridge

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2h 16min
December 10, 2025IM 849: AI Cricket Sorting - Cracking Chatbots and AGI for All
What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise.
Pliny the Liberator | pliny.gg - discord.gg/basi
ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up

From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion

Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026

Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman

Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice

Svedka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily With AI

AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI

The Resonant Computing Manifesto (from Masnick)

Techdirt fundraiser

From Sam Lessin: Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style

Bare Metal Email

Jeff in Austria

Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy

Who says AI isn't useful? Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Pliny the Liberator

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2h 32min
December 03, 2025IM 848: Guaranteed Human - Satellite Photos for Everyone
Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.
Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure

Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document

OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort

AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?

Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major

Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent

Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'

AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner

The race to AGI-pill the pope

Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci

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2h 44min
November 26, 2025IM 847: Caked Up Football Man - Why Small AIs Are Smarter
AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people?
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools

White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say

Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device
Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream

The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok

The prof crashed

I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.

Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich

Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence

AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing

Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?

A beautiful Nic Cage commercial

This stuffing recipe

How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m.

'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons

The Stahl House

A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Emad Mostaque

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2h 60min
November 19, 2025IM 846: Chivelord - From Leather-Bound to Cloud Powered
What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

Part 1: How I Found Out

$1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand

His announcement leaving Meta

White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations

Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'

Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive

Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain

AI love, actually

Cat island

road trip: liquidator's warehouse

Gentype

The Carpenter's Son...

My excerpt from the Q&A

Image of the paper

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jimmy Wales

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2h 44min

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