Intelligent Machines (Audio)

IM 878: The 1AM Bus to Chinatown - Robots, Bison, and the Art of Savoring Small Stuff

Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better. OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor' MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features GuideAlong Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Bogost 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: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines gusto.com/machines

IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models

Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on. Fable is Back! Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos". China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device * Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028 US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows * Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring Political Bias in AI Om Malik, 1966-2026 Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep My post: California's squandered opportunity Palantir coat Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan Guest: Chris Potts 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: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT zscaler.com/security XBOW.com rippling.ai/machines

IM 876: It's No Melania - Section 230 on Trial

Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators. Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI Identity verification on Claude Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026 OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman. Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher AI Economics for Dummies We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch UK TV to be turned off Computer History Museum's AI Archive Airport Dad Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Olivier Sylvain 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: gusto.com/machines XBOW.com webroot.com/twit

IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle

The 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

IM 874: Google Knows I Love the Pepper Cannon - AI and the New Social Contract

Discover 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