Intelligent Machines (Audio)

British 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

Have 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: outsystems.com/twit helixsleep.com/machines webroot.com/twit trustedtech.team/intelligent365

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 noscroll 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 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: scribe.how/machines outsystems.com/twit zscaler.com/security

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 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: webroot.com/twit monarch.com with code IM outsystems.com/twit

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 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 Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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: zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit

OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption? OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger OpenAI disbands mission alignment team Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6 Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499 Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3 Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power. Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs ai;dr I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini 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: monarch.com with code IM bitwarden.com/twit preview.modulate.ai spaceship.com/twit

Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work. Something Big Is Happening Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech Google's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users OpenAI's Meta makeover ChatGPT's deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports Alexa+, Amazon's AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S. Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production AI didn't kill customer support. It's rebuilding it Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters most for their kids. A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You? LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study HBR: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis Medicare's new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here's why it's risky Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine's Day messages a good idea? As Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They're Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable YouTube Argues It Isn't Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial 'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas Understanding Neural Network, Visually Leo's AI Journey The TIMELINE TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau 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: preview.modulate.ai Melissa.com/twit spaceship.com/twit

The podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact. Anthropic's Move Into Legal Is Sinking Data Services Stocks Data centers in space makes no sense The hitchhiker's guide to Musk's SpaceX memo Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing. Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear - Nature OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steve Yegge 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 monarch.com with code IM zscaler.com/security helixsleep.com/machines

Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI. State of Mozilla 2025/26 Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology Proof of Corn Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them. China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models Claude's new constitution "Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It? Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Mark Surman 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 Sponsor: trustedtech.team/intelligent365

Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs. Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status' Claude's new constitution Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Thomas Haigh 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: bitwarden.com/twit monarch.com with code IM

Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting digital deception is tough now, wait until you hear how deep the rabbit hole goes. Claude Code Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools Introducing Cowork "In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them." : r/SelfDrivingCars Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin Creepy Link Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) | Open Culture Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public Postal Arbitrage New protein tests The Traitors Season 4 WikiFlix MTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero Algorithms 'A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Craig Silverman 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 zscaler.com/security

Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users? NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images Introducing ChatGPT Health 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all 2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop" Stanford's AI class on YouTube Tamiflu Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere) Happy birthday Nic Cage Floor796 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Jason Hiner 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: monarch.com with code IM joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines

Our interviews with: Ray Kurzweil Alex Hanna Emily Bender Mike Masnick Pliny the Liberator Kevin Kelly Host: Leo Laporte 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