Intelligent Machines (Audio)

IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:04:43 PDT

Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI
Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog
Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet
(4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X
Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine
Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'
They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

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

Guest: Lon Seidman

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IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:02:54 PDT

As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought.

Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears
An Alien Mind
Muse - Your Personal AI Agent
Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation's Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools
Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls on Trial in October Movie Pileup
chat jimmy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Matthew Cassinelli

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IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:55:11 PDT

Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.

Judge Rules on Google Ads Case
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk
OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns
Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?
OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera
Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai
YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links
Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search
I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help
MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality
Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more
(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Unusual Suspects
Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers
Archived video
CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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IM 885: Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs?

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:08:53 PDT

With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?

(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X
Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs
Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content
Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'
(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X
Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.
Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Co-Host: Christina Warren

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IM 884: Cyber Jim - Why Critical Infrastructure Depends on Obsessive Code Reviews

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:17:00 PDT

Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse.

Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter
(272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X
If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI
Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow
Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside
So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?
LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T
New Chinese model adds to AI competition
What happens to what you share with AI
Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training
Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
the wikipedia guessing game
Okay Spielberg TikTok
At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer
SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dan O'Dowd

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IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:34:10 PDT

Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.

How Claude marks AI-generated content
Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone
Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet
OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300
Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion
High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating
Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Riot Platforms
US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon
Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language
Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive
Wired: Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
"* David Corn: I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad."
Yea or Nay
BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: "F*** This"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nicholas De Leon

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IM 882: AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:11:59 PDT

Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Altman says he supports AI regulation
Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC
White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
The Red-Hot Book at the Center of an AI Mystery
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
The Autonomous Press - Numbered Papers
Musk's latest ridiculous prediction: Optimus better than human surgeons in 4 years
The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Phillip Shoemaker

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IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:42:05 PDT

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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IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:42:14 PDT

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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IM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:17:40 PDT

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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