Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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

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AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next generation of stories.

AThis is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark

Anthropic has officially filed to go public

Google Seeks $80 Billion for AI Buildout; Berkshire Will Buy $10 Billion Stake

Amazon's AI jackpot: Its $8 billion Anthropic holdings are now worth $74 billion

Taking a trip this summer? Beware. These travel scams are now turbocharged by AI

Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models

AI info visualization -- click on anything for more

cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.

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'The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.' Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?

Hell Grind trailer

Martin Scorsese accused of 'throwing artists under bus' with AI storyboards

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Robert Tercek

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Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in?

The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity

Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car

Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search

There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice

White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI

Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing

Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order

I'm tired of talking to AI

In Memoriam: Don Newhouse

Picks of the Week:

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rick Sammon

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Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.

Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter

Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter

SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget

Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo

(21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X

Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.

Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup

Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'

AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers

Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute

We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing

'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize

Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake

Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything

Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism

The great digital media valuation collapse

Sperm racing

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Frederic Rivain

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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'

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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