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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 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters
6d 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
2w ago02:53:48Summary 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?
3w ago02:43:32Summary 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
4w ago02:29:13Summary 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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IM 862: Ménage à Claude - AI, Human Agency, and Economic Value
Mar 1903:00:43Summary readyWho gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence. Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code OpenAI, Musk and Focus A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot AI Agent Hacks McKinsey A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots' German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96 CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models? We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak. I tried BigArch. A big mess. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Rumman Chowdhury 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: spaceship.com/twit outsystems.com/twit zscaler.com/security preview.modulate.ai
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IM 861: We Have Computer At Home - Coffee and the Rise of the Machines
Mar 1203:12:44Summary readyApple'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 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 monarch.com with code IM Melissa.com/twit get.stash.com/im
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IM 860: You Gotta Get Computer - Claude Surges to No. 1
Mar 502:08:24Summary readyA 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 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: joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT preview.modulate.ai zscaler.com/security outsystems.com/twit
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