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    IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge

    2026/05/06 | 2h 29 mins.
    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

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

    2026/04/29 | 2h 37 mins.
    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

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

    2026/04/22 | 2h 45 mins.
    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?

    2026/04/15 | 2h 28 mins.
    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?

    2026/04/08 | 2h 26 mins.
    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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About Intelligent Machines (Audio)

The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots. The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds. On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Wednesday.
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