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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August 20, 2025IM 833: The Most Popular S3 Bucket Ever - AI Slop, Clankers, and Shrimp
AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine

China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis

US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine

AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher

Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble

Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?

Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.

2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)

How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary

YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars

Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action

So ... is AI writing any good?

Project Indigo

We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Rich Skrenta

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August 13, 2025IM 832: Surrounded by Zuck - Inside Google Gemini
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.

Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons

David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X

A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)

Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise

Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn

Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over

Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments

Two-mile suspension bridge

Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Tulsee Doshi

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3h 17min
August 06, 2025IM 831: 9 Seconds of Google - Holy Widgets
Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi

OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models

Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)

Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop

Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data

Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry

AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay

Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.

When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....

AI vegans

Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code

Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of

Good guy humpback whales

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Vlad Prelovac

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2h 39min
July 30, 2025IM 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy - Personal Superintelligence?
Interview with Ian Krietzberg

Leo's shows off his new AI toys

Paris unveils her new desk setup

Personal Superintelligence

You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.

Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang

Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content

Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip

The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models

My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX

Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk

Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster

Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out

TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show

This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

JC makes wine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Krietzberg

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2h 53min
July 23, 2025IM 829: The Yonkers Questions - What's New With NotebookLM
Interview with Steven Johnson

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say

Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch

(21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X

Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears

OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity

SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
(21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich

Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation

Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces

A new study just upended AI safety

'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'

Tesla results

Total Party Kill

Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen

Attack of the clever crows

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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2h 57min
July 16, 2025IM 828: Stochastic Carrots - Navigating the Future of AI
Interview with Anil Dash

egirl Grok x Claude

Zuckerberg announces Meta's new AI data centers for superintelligence

Meta Hires Two More OpenAI Researchers

Reflections on OpenAI

RSS is (not) dead (yet) (NED #3) – audra mcnamee

Perplexity AI browser

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads

Stewart Holbrook: Portland Mythmaker

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Fun With A.I.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Anil Dash

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2h 21min
July 09, 2025IM 827: Marco Rubio on Line 1 - The Promise of Personalized Software
Interview with Mike Masnick

Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own

The one secret to using genAI to boost your brain

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X

How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI

As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT

(21) Josh Woodward on X: "The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://t.co/uPa0p0KQZu" / X

Chinese robot dog nears Usain Bolt speed, breaks global record

Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco

A.I.'s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck)

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials

Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection

Zitron: OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially

Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots

Grammarly Authorship

CalMatters Digital Democracy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Mike Masnick

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2h 49min
July 02, 2025IM 826: Cusp of Noodles - The AI Copyright Battle Heats Up
Interview with Board Member of Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases

How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It's Not Writing Articles)

Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you

The Internet Needs Sex

Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws

Adam Thierer reacts

Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot

The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners

People are using AI to 'sit' with them while they trip on psychedelics

China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match

AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions

AI helps find formula for paint to keep buildings cooler

Microsoft's New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy - Slashdot

It's Known as 'The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses

The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence

We used Veo to animate archive photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum

G/O Media Winds Down by Selling Kotaku, One of Its Last Sites

Roadside America Dot Com

Cluely pitches itself as undectable AI

Lorde's new album: Virgin

AI recipe creation

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: John Graham-Cumming

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2h 37min
June 25, 2025IM 825: The Evil Clown of Middletown - Death By Powerpoint
Interview with Richard Gingras

Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books

Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It

Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI

Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch

OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

Is AI the End of Dating Apps?

Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI?

gist.ai

Jeff talks about the new AI Chromebook

Veo sinkhole videos

Wiki Radio 📻

Tennis robot

The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003

Zuck's new specs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Richard Gingras

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3h 7min
June 18, 2025IM 824: Full-Body Air-Quotes - AI in Higher Education
Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum

Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI

Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition

Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition

Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

Inside the AI Party at the End of the World

AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games

L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Brooklyn TK

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Matthew Kirschenbaum

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2h 12min

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