Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

July 29IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this.
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting U.S. AI

Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient"

Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear

The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection

Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

DeepMind paper says LLMs won't be good at scientific discovery: LLMs can't jump

Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models

An ESP32 based plane radar

The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us

prompt-injection resumes

The McLuhan Marshalling Machine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Henry Blodget

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2 hr 9 min
July 22IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?
An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible

AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture

Quoting Sam Altman

Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball

Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic

Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order

Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains

Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal

Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic

Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities'

Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped

Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon

Cyclospora all the time

Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price

" Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert"

John C. Dvorak dies at age 80

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nate B. Jones

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2 hr 39 min
July 15IM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?
With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them.
Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/

Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole trade Secrets

Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US

Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days

White House details 'Gold Eagle' clearinghouse for AI cyber threats

Introducing GPT-Live

From Chatbot to Command Center

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X

What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone

Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness

OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.

We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content

White House not ruling out action on open-source AI models

The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI - WSJ

Super Dario: One More Week

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev

History of LLMs: Complete Timeline & Evolution (1950-2026)

No, You Shouldn't Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora

Google creator profiles

Dust jacket

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Raffi Krikorian

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2 hr 25 min
July 08IM 878: The 1AM Bus to Chinatown - Robots, Bison, and the Art of Savoring Small Stuff
Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better.
OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9

Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped

Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us

Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos

Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment

Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame

Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies

A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders

Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor'

MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand

lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features

GuideAlong

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ian Bogost

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3 hr 6 min
July 01IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models
Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.
Fable is Back!

Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".

China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI

Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft

OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design

Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It

How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms

SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device

* Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028

US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections

Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

* Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring

Political Bias in AI

Om Malik, 1966-2026

Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

My post: California's squandered opportunity

Palantir coat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Chris Potts

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2 hr 48 min
June 24IM 876: It's No Melania - Section 230 on Trial
Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators.
Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO

The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time

N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute

Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order

Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years

Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI

Identity verification on Claude

Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack

Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins

Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids

YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership

OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos

Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal

Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban

We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses

Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs

AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A

Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans

A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman.

Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs

Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher

AI Economics for Dummies

We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I.

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch

UK TV to be turned off

Computer History Museum's AI Archive

Airport Dad

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Olivier Sylvain

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2 hr 45 min
June 17IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle
The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation.
The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense

Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI

The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge

(21) Pete Hegseth on X: "Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸" / X

Anthropic's Safety Superpower

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

The Anthropic 'Fable' saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora's box.

Exclusive: OpenAI Preps New AI Model, Expects To Go Public 'Within the Next Year'

Microsoft CEO warns that a few AI winners could destroy 'entire industries'

SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal to power AI coding push

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is 'Vital' for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

AI Deepfakes Are Getting Weirder and Harder to Spot in the Midterms

UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots

Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

Discover — FablePool

Isometric NYC

Encrypted Spaces

Florida man

Knick Knacks

Bird window

Ode to Orange Seats

Bending Spoons--owner of AOL, Eventbrite, Vimeo, Komoot, WeTransfer, Evernote, MeetUp, Streamyard, Hopin, Splice, and Brightcove--to IPO

Tim Ferris: Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Alex Stamos

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2 hr 16 min
June 10IM 874: Google Knows I Love the Pepper Cannon - AI and the New Social Contract
Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The future isn't just smarter models, but everyday tech that learns exactly how you work.

• Hermes AI agent's launch, mass adoption, and personalized capabilities

• Open source vs. proprietary AI: model access, privacy, and funding hurdles

• Apple's next-gen Siri and agentic platform ambitions unpacked

• Nous Research model development, Nvidia partnerships, and training challenges

• The risk of an "AI underclass" and ethics in model distribution

• Anthropic's Fable release: strict guardrails, silent model downgrades, and open source tensions

• Local models vs. cloud LLMs: cost, effectiveness, and practical tuning

• Community-driven iterating: Hermes' rapid product evolution and user obsession

• Vatican's AI encyclical: church perspectives on AI, morality, and the common good

• AGI arrival debate: economic thresholds, capabilities, and human uniqueness

• The reality of AI hallucinations, agent accuracy, and responsible usage

• Legal fallout over AI-generated hallucinations in court filings

• AI's growing role in Hollywood contracts and labor protections

• Google's Gemini 3 live translation impresses but raises privacy flags

• German courts label Google AI overviews as publisher speech, liability looms

• AI detection tools like Pangram face scrutiny in real-world writing and education

• Google Dream Beans app tests the limits of digital personal recommendations

• Picks of the Week: Reddit AMA, Dream Beans, basketball and retro gaming, research critiques

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

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2 hr 47 min
June 03IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood
AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next generation of stories.
AThis is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark

Anthropic has officially filed to go public

Google Seeks $80 Billion for AI Buildout; Berkshire Will Buy $10 Billion Stake

Amazon's AI jackpot: Its $8 billion Anthropic holdings are now worth $74 billion

Taking a trip this summer? Beware. These travel scams are now turbocharged by AI

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models

AI info visualization -- click on anything for more

cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.

wander
'The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.' Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?

Hell Grind trailer

Martin Scorsese accused of 'throwing artists under bus' with AI storyboards

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Robert Tercek

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2 hr 32 min
May 27IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?
The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity

Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car

Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search

There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice

White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI

Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing

Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order

I'm tired of talking to AI

In Memoriam: Don Newhouse
Picks of the Week:
KMart Muzak

Infinite Jeffs

isaiprofitable.com

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

Guest: Rick Sammon

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2 hr 33 min

About 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 phones and robots.

The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds.

On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all.

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