Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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Intelligent Machines (Audio) episodes

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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2 hr 39 min
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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2 hr 53 min
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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2 hr 57 min
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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2 hr 21 min
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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2 hr 49 min
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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2 hr 37 min
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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3 hr 7 min
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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2 hr 12 min
June 11, 2025IM 823: Intelligent with Two G's - Google Has a Fox Problem
Interview with Stephen Witt

Altman's Gentle Singularity

Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40

Paris on Apple Glass

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement

Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Futurism on the paper

Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss

YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence'

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers

Amazon 'testing humanoid robots to deliver packages'

Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1bn London office

23andMe's Former CEO Pushes Purchase Price Nearly $50 Million Higher

Code to control vocal production with hands

Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year

Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Witt

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3 hr 12 min
June 04, 2025IM 822: The One Man Unicorn - AI In Psychiatry
Daniel Oberhaus Interview

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine'

Indian AI Startup Worth Billions Turns Out to Be Biggest Scam Ever

AI Humanizer & Detector â€“ Make AI Text Undetectable | Walter AI

This study used Reddit's AITA to test how sycophantic AI is

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds

The OpenAI Board Drama Is Turning Into a Movie - Slashdot

Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook â€” and AI podcasts â€” publicly

AI Hallucination Cases Database â€“ Damien Charlotin

5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest â€” and it wasn't ChatGPT.

Morgan Stanley Says Its AI Tool Processed 9 Million Lines of Legacy Code This Year And Saved 280,000 Developer Hours

Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site's Data

Most new cars in Norway are EVs.

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83

Fake My Run

The Nest (1988)

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guests: Jacob Ward and Daniel Oberhaus

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2 hr 54 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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