Intelligent Machines (Video)

IM 868: Happy Hamburgers Towing Timmy To The Sea - Can You Really Own Your AI?

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:17:44 PDT

Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware matters more than ever—and what's at risk if we don't.

Alphabet tops Q1 estimates on strong Google Cloud growth
Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?
OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft
Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for 'any lawful government purpose'
Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared
OpenAI Set to Redefine Smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare Key to Its AI Agent Phone
Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race - Fast Company
Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
Generative AI vegetarianism
To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
* Chloe vs. History
Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
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Felvidek
Amazon's AI product podcasts
64″D Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber
Timmy's rescue

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nirav Patel

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IM 867: The Ketchup Effect - The Lines Are Too Damn Long

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:37:39 PDT

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.

CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning
Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)
Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell
Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership
SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding
Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services
Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI
Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War
AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too
Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
This pasta sauce wants to record your family
LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
Depths of Wikipedia
GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.
Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
Jeff's Gemini happy ending
The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost

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IM 866: I'm Bonkers for Yonkers - Is Coding Dead?

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:31:06 PDT

When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model
Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work
OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft
The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read
Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label
Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development
Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators
Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'
Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella
I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?
Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount
OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'
I/O schedule
Haunted Paper Toys
Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now
DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS
TRAIN JAZZ
The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Mod

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IM 865: Mythic - Too Dangerous to Release?

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:39:14 PDT

A 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

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IM 864: And Artemis Too - Journalism In The Age Of AI

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:41:40 PDT

What 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

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IM 863: Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:22:54 PDT

Tech 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

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IM 862: Ménage à Claude - AI, Human Agency, and Economic Value

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:20:03 PDT

Who 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

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IM 861: We Have Computer At Home - Coffee and the Rise of the Machines

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:18:51 PDT

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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IM 860: You Gotta Get Computer - Claude Surges to No. 1

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:58:09 PST

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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IM 859: What's Behind the Fox? - Tech's Gilded Age

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:20:27 PST

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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