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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. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month.
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IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle
6d ago02:15:12Summary readyThe 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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit trustedtech.team/intelligent365 XBOW.com monarch.com with code IM
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IM 874: Google Knows I Love the Pepper Cannon - AI and the New Social Contract
2w ago02:46:30Summary readyDiscover 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 • Noose 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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/machines Melissa.com/twit zscaler.com/security
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IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood
3w ago02:31:07Summary readyAI 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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: XBOW.com webroot.com/twit gusto.com/machines
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IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters
4w ago02:32:25Summary readyPhotographer 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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 zscaler.com/security
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IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul
May 2102:53:48Summary readyDashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security. Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo (21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it. Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts' AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs The last six months in LLMs in five minutes Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing 'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism The great digital media valuation collapse Sperm racing Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Frederic Rivain Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit monarch.com with code IM zscaler.com/security XBOW.com
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IM 870: Meet Me In Alaska - Are AI Content Filters Changing What We Read?
May 1402:43:32Summary readyBritish tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass. Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19 Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw Students boo AI at commencement: video Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying' (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools The new Wild West of AI kids' toys Internet Archive Switzerland Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out. The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models' Hallucinopedia Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996' Sand shortage Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit XBOW.com threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit
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IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge
May 702:29:13Summary readyHave I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches. White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence. OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time. When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable. Say Hello to the Internet of AI The greatest capital misallocation in history? AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same. Academy announces major overhaul to rules AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs Have LLMs improved patient outcomes? As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs' Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy! 'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online' He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame? Empty Screenings Furwall by Ollie Wagner DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet The Python Hunt News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Troy Hunt Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/machines webroot.com/twit trustedtech.team/intelligent365
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IM 865: Mythic - Too Dangerous to Release?
Apr 9Summary readyA secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this technology escapes the lab. Claude Mythos Preview System Card - Claude Mythos Preview System Card.pdf Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? Meta Employees Vie for AI 'Token Legend' Status Meta releases new model for Social Media "Muse Spark" Why OpenAI's Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews? Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company The back story behind the first "$1.8 Billion" dollar "AI Company" It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling Cloudflare builds what it calls the successor to WordPress JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman Mvidia Old NYC records Basketball is.... good? QVC, HSN cable networks face Chapter 11, insolvency AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Daniel Miessler Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/machines spaceship.com/twit zscaler.com/security
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IM 864: And Artemis Too - Journalism In The Age Of AI
Apr 2Summary readyWhat happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find out how Every is challenging the boundaries between tech and culture and why even seasoned journalists are wrestling with these tools. Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know (Il)Legal Python Port Claude Code Unpacked Spinner Verbs RANK SPECULATION: Capybara cost - AI haves and have nots. And whither spud? Another supply chain attack on NPM OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors SpaceX Has Filed Confidentially for IPO Ahead of AI Rivals Gmail rolling out AI Inbox beta for AI Ultra subscribers You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll More Than Half of US Says AI Likely to Harm Them, Poll Finds The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want 'Most People Don't Enjoy Their Jobs:' Perplexity CEO Says AI Layoffs Are Chance To Launch AI-Powered Ventures Biggest AI conference traps researchers, presuming AI as cheating An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In. Obsolete Sounds The oldest job in journalism: New York Post 'runners' defy AI A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Kate Lee Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/im monarch.com with code IM
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IM 863: Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials
Mar 2602:44:09Summary readyTech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a journalist, flagging what's truly new and revealing the patterns that matter. If you want to stay several steps ahead in the AI race, this episode is a must-listen. Malware autodownloaded by AI agents Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was "inevitable" on its apps We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression Apple Can 'Distill' Google's Big Gemini Model Apple Plans AI Reboot With Siri App, New Look and 'Ask Siri' Button in iOS 27 Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies Jury finds Elon Musk guilty of defrauding Twitter investors [U] Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80 AI Doc trailer reflect — Time-Travel Reflection for Obsidian Esoteric Ebb Butthole Regex Blaster Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Marshall Kirkpatrick Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit spaceship.com/twit
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