Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

March 11IM 861: We Have Computer At Home - Coffee and the Rise of the Machines
Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.
OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns

ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud

Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal

OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal

BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him

ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks

OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot

OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again

OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community

Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips

Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web

Where did you think the training data was coming from?

You could be an influencer without even realizing it

Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots

Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai

Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer

A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more

William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity

YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company

ET Fall Preview 1994

Payphone Go

This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day

Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

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3 hr 13 min
March 04IM 860: You Gotta Get Computer - Claude Surges to No. 1
A principled stand by an underdog AI company ignites a mass migration of users, shakes up Silicon Valley talent wars, and leaves even the tech giants recalculating their moves. Hear how one weekend suddenly redrew the lines on ethics, leadership, and who controls the future of AI.
Interview with Dan Patterson of Blackbird.ai

Stratechery: Anthropic and Alignment

SAMA's prevaricating, panicked posts

Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout

Amazon says drone strikes damaged 3 facilities in UAE and Bahrain

Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View

Because Leo isn't here...

Mark Zuckerberg's $170 Million Mansion Buy Breaks Miami Price Records

Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Jason Hiner

Guest: Dan Patterson

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2 hr 9 min
February 25IM 859: What's Behind the Fox? - Tech's Gilded Age
What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.
Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight

Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

My first vibe coding project!

Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera

ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics

"Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"

Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View

Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

You can now make Alexa's AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out

Claude Remote-Control

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds

What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?

AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments

LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find

Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot

Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself

Men 'yell' at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women

It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'—and It's No Joke

I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak

This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby

Famous Signatures Through History

Finally got a Fujifilm!

I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay

Jeff's new friends

How far back in time can you understand English?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeff Atwood

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3 hr 6 min
February 18IM 858: The Itinerant Salt Miner from Buffalo - Silicon Valley's Military Dilemma
OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team

Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times

Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499

Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3

Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment

An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words

I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.

Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs

AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion

Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story

Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories

Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting

DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs

ai;dr

I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School

peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal

Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent

Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini

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2 hr 52 min
February 11IM 857: Taskrabbit Arbitrage - Disposable Code and Automation
Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work.
Something Big Is Happening

Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion

Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech

Google's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

OpenAI's Meta makeover

ChatGPT's deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports

Alexa+, Amazon's AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.

Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production

AI didn't kill customer support. It's rebuilding it

Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters

most for their kids.
A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic

Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?

LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study

HBR: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis

Medicare's new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here's why it's risky

Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons

Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps

The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt

Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping

Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine's Day messages a good idea?

As Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They're Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable

YouTube Argues It Isn't Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial

'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

Leo's AI Journey

The TIMELINE

TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2 hr 47 min
February 04IM 856: SecretlyBriti.sh - From Humans to Hive Minds
The podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact.
Anthropic's Move Into Legal Is Sinking Data Services Stocks

Data centers in space makes no sense

The hitchhiker's guide to Musk's SpaceX memo

Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear - Nature

OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month

Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims

French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit

An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account

Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers

Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker

Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut

Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe

The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph

The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys

Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steve Yegge

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2 hr 46 min
January 28IM 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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2 hr 31 min
January 21IM 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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2 hr 18 min
January 14IM 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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2 hr 55 min
January 07IM 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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2 hr 40 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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