Intelligent Machines (Audio)

With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions and dives into what your future with "intelligent machines" might actually look like—waffles and all. Interview with Nick Foster AI's $344 Billion 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile Yann LeCun's mondo preso Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Data Annotation Workers Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday The OpenAI paper on usage Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model I Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now How an AI Giant Became Obsessed With an Albino Alligator Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower healthcare costs The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers Rest of World: A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society Roadwarden David Lynch's quirky house Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Nick Foster 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: pantheon.io threatlocker.com/twit

AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts." Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle AI Watchdog At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies Most Scraped Websites of 2025 AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time. Alterego I Hate My Friend R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related? OpenAI's post on the paper Gina Trappani starts a new blog Schnitzel press NFL Debut on YouTube Draws 17.3 Million Set a two TikTok toilet limit to reduce haemorrhoid risk, doctors advise" Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Co-Host: Harper Reed Guests: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit spaceship.com/twit

Go behind the curtain at OpenAI as bestselling author Karen Hao shares stories of infighting, ego, and shifting agendas. Find out why even OpenAI's security had her face on alert during her investigation. Karen Hao reveals OpenAI's secretive culture and early ambitions OpenAI's shifting leadership and transparency: from nonprofit roots to Big Tech power Defining AGI: moving goalposts, internal rifts, and philosophy debates OpenAI's founders dissected: Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever's styles and motives Critiquing the AI industry's resource grabs and "AI imperialism" How commercialization narrowed AI research and the dominance of transformers China's AI threat as Silicon Valley's favorite justification, debunked Karen Hao details reporting process and boardroom chaos at OpenAI GPT-5 skepticism: raised expectations, lackluster reality, and demo fatigue Karen Hao's bottom line: AI's current trajectory isn't inevitable — pushback is needed Harper Reed shares vibe coding workflows using Claude Code
 AI commoditization—why all major models start to feel the same
 Western vs. Chinese open-source models and global AI power shifts
 Google antitrust ruling: AI's rise dissolves traditional search monopoly "Algorithm movies" spark debate over art, entertainment, and AI's creative impact
 Meta's AI talent grab backfires amid exits and cash-fueled drama Anthropic's "historic" author settlement likely cements fair use for AI training
 DIY facial recognition: Citizen activists unmask ICE using AI tools
 Picks: Byte Magazine's 50th, AI werewolf games, Berghain bouncer AI test, and arthouse film "Perfect Days" Get "Empire of AI" (Amazon Affiliate): https://amzn.to/4lRra9h Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Co-Host: Harper Reed Guest: Karen Hao 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit monarchmoney.com with code IM helixsleep.com/twit pantheon.io

Interview with M.G. Siegler. Google improves Gemini AI image editing with "Nano Banana" model. THIS is why large language models can understand the world. Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs. Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5. Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year. We must build AI for people; not to be a person. AI "deadbots" are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization. AI robots are helping South Korea's seniors feel less alone. College student's "time travel" AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history. Forget Uber Eats—Chipotle's latest delivery option might shock you. There are two types of dishwasher people. Would you go on a tour of your local Amazon warehouse? Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content. Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated "freelancer". The South Slope Derby. Checking in on the Internet Roadtrip. TikTok. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: M.G. Siegler 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/twit zscaler.com/security pantheon.io

AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger? Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself. 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action So ... is AI writing any good? Project Indigo We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Rich Skrenta 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: pantheon.io helixsleep.com/twit

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it. Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2) Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments Two-mile suspension bridge Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing? Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Tulsee Doshi 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: spaceship.com/twit Melissa.com/twit

Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔) Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful. When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline.... AI vegans Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of Good guy humpback whales Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Vlad Prelovac 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: monarchmoney.com with code IM helixsleep.com/twit

Interview with Ian Krietzberg Leo's shows off his new AI toys Paris unveils her new desk setup Personal Superintelligence You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it. Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird JC makes wine Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Krietzberg 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security helixsleep.com/twit agntcy.org

Interview with Steven Johnson Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces A new study just upended AI safety 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' Tesla results Total Party Kill Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen Attack of the clever crows Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steven Johnson 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: smarty.com/twit agntcy.org

Interview with Anil Dash egirl Grok x Claude Zuckerberg announces Meta's new AI data centers for superintelligence Meta Hires Two More OpenAI Researchers Reflections on OpenAI RSS is (not) dead (yet) (NED #3) – audra mcnamee Perplexity AI browser Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads Stewart Holbrook: Portland Mythmaker How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Fun With A.I. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Anil Dash 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/twit agntcy.org Melissa.com/twit

Interview with Mike Masnick Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own The one secret to using genAI to boost your brain Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT (21) Josh Woodward on X: "The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://t.co/uPa0p0KQZu" / X Chinese robot dog nears Usain Bolt speed, breaks global record Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco A.I.'s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck) A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection Zitron: OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots Grammarly Authorship CalMatters Digital Democracy Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan Guest: Mike Masnick 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org monarchmoney.com with code IM smarty.com/twit

Interview with Board Member of Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It's Not Writing Articles) Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you The Internet Needs Sex Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws Adam Thierer reacts Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners People are using AI to 'sit' with them while they trip on psychedelics China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions AI helps find formula for paint to keep buildings cooler Microsoft's New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy - Slashdot It's Known as 'The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence We used Veo to animate archive photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum G/O Media Winds Down by Selling Kotaku, One of Its Last Sites Roadside America Dot Com Cluely pitches itself as undectable AI Lorde's new album: Virgin AI recipe creation Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: John Graham-Cumming 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/twit smarty.com/twit agntcy.org

Interview with Richard Gingras Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts Is AI the End of Dating Apps? Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI? gist.ai Jeff talks about the new AI Chromebook Veo sinkhole videos Wiki Radio 📻 Tennis robot The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003 Zuck's new specs Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Richard Gingras 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: storyblok.com/twittv-25 code TWIT25 zscaler.com/security Melissa.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet' OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon Inside the AI Party at the End of the World AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals Brooklyn TK Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Matthew Kirschenbaum 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit bigid.com/im agntcy.org

Interview with Stephen Witt Altman's Gentle Singularity Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40 Paris on Apple Glass OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Futurism on the paper Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence' Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers Amazon 'testing humanoid robots to deliver packages' Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1bn London office 23andMe's Former CEO Pushes Purchase Price Nearly $50 Million Higher Code to control vocal production with hands Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Stephen Witt 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org smarty.com/twit monarchmoney.com with code TWIT spaceship.com/twit

Daniel Oberhaus Interview Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine' Indian AI Startup Worth Billions Turns Out to Be Biggest Scam Ever AI Humanizer & Detector – Make AI Text Undetectable | Walter AI This study used Reddit's AITA to test how sycophantic AI is More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds The OpenAI Board Drama Is Turning Into a Movie - Slashdot Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn't ChatGPT. Morgan Stanley Says Its AI Tool Processed 9 Million Lines of Legacy Code This Year And Saved 280,000 Developer Hours Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site's Data Most new cars in Norway are EVs. David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83 Fake My Run The Nest (1988) Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau Guests: Jacob Ward and Daniel Oberhaus 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bigid.com/im outsystems.com/twit canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT storyblok.com/twittv-25 code TWIT25

Interview with Adam Becker Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology Joanna Sterns stars in WSJ Veo film Wow: So this is all AI-generated. (with Veo) Business Owners Are Using AI-Generated 'Concerned Residents' To Fight Proposed Bus Line In Toronto - Slashdot venice.ai Google's Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger's dream Duolingo CEO Clarifies AI-First Plan After Backlash, Says AI Won't Replace Employees The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us Nvidia results "Just Count the Server Racks"... Why one of the world's major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia Henry Blodget is the only employee in an AI newsroom Claude's System Card Film and Television Script Archive David Lynch auction A new season of Taskmaster! Mountainhead Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Adam Becker 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security storyblok.com/twittv-25 code TWIT25 outsystems.com/twit agntcy.org

Interview with Kate O'Neill Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI' OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco China begins assembling its supercomputer in space The environmental impact of LLMs ranked NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing? Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild. Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass' How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion Gingers are Black Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack??? Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle... New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam Lego cat Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist) 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: smarty.com/twit agntcy.org spaceship.com/twit

The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office Meta's new AI glasses could have a 'super-sensing' mode with facial recognition Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen The House GOP Quietly Slipped In An AI Law That Would Accidentally Ban GOP's Favorite 'Save The Children' Laws neat Gemini airline hack Interview with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna AI Use Damages Professional Reputation, Study Suggests Gemini smarts are coming to more Android devices Amazon Upfront 2025: Prime Video will show you AI pause ads - Fast Company E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper The CryptoPunks NFTs are being sold to a non-profit as their value continues to fall Crypto boys are the worst.... Parisbait: I've watched every single Nicolas Cage film made so far. Here's what I learned about him – and myself Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel Uncle Tony's Reptile Shack neal.fun Testing Paris' language proficiency and youth The uncontroversial 'thingness' of AI Artifice and Intelligence The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency' Information literacy and chatbots as search Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna 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 shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: storyblok.com/twittv-25 code TWIT25 outsystems.com/twit bigid.com/im canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Mike McCue introduces Surf: Flipboard's founder and CEO demonstrated their new social browser app that aggregates content from ActivityPub, AT Proto, and RSS into unified feeds, allowing users to follow people across platforms and create curated content collections. OpenAI Adjusts Reorganization Plans: OpenAI will maintain its non-profit arm while converting its for-profit division into a public benefit corporation similar to Anthropic, pending regulatory approval. AI Criticism Blog Post: A blog highlighted practical AI concerns beyond the singularity, focusing on coordinated inauthentic behavior, misinformation, and non-consensual pornography. AI Workplace Misuse: Nearly half of workers admit to using AI inappropriately at work according to a Fast Company report. AI Academic Cheating: New York Magazine investigated widespread AI cheating in colleges, including students using AI for all assignments while maintaining excellent grades. "I Smell AI": The team discussed unreliable AI detection methods and embarrassing AI-generated news errors, including Alberta being incorrectly described as "French-speaking." Instagram Co-founder on AI Chatbots: Kevin Systrom claims AI assistants are designed to maximize engagement metrics rather than utility, though Leo demonstrated how these behaviors can be modified. Google Labs' AI Experiments: The hosts explored Google's new AI Mode search interface, language learning tools, and a career recommendation system. New York Times Subscriber Growth: The NYT added 250,000 digital subscribers with a 14% jump in digital subscription revenue, with nearly half subscribing to multiple products. Auburn University's Phone Help Desk: The hosts discussed Auburn's 70-year tradition of librarians answering public phone questions, continuing through technological changes. San Francisco's Orb Store: World opened a downtown storefront where visitors scan their irises with "orbs" to verify humanity and receive WorldCoin cryptocurrency. Driverless Trucks Begin Regular Routes: Aurora launched fully autonomous semi-trucks between Dallas and Houston, raising both safety hopes and public perception concerns. Waymo Safety Study: Data showed Waymo's autonomous vehicles significantly reduced injury crashes, though the hosts questioned aspects of the data presentation. AI-Generated Video in Court: An AI-generated video of a deceased shooting victim "forgiving" his killer was shown in an Arizona courtroom, raising ethical and legal questions. Paris's Game Recommendation - Norco: Paris recommended the Southern Gothic narrative game Norco, set in industrial Louisiana with a surreal atmosphere similar to Disco Elysium. Leo's Game Recommendation - Tippy Coco: Leo shared a simple browser-based ball-bouncing game at TippyCoco.com as an easy option for casual players. Jeff's Pick - World Bank Data Sets: Jeff highlighted World Bank's release of hundreds of public data sets intended for AI training that provide insight into global technology adoption. Google Invests in Wonder: Google Ventures invested in virtual kitchen company Wonder, which raised $600 million despite questions about food delivery business sustainability. These show notes have been truncated due to length. For the full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/818 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Mike McCue Sponsors: monarchmoney.com with code IM spaceship.com/twit bigid.com/im Melissa.com/twit