IM 839: Cogsuckers and Clankers - Radio's New Golden Age or Apocalypse?
What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
It's time to prepare for AI personhood
Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: "She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being"
Link to the podslop podcasts
California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law
Sen. Mark Kelly's big plan for an AI future isn't ambitious enough
** DeepMind defines levels of AGI
Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
AI passed the hardest CFA test in minutes
ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart's referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents
Amazon event live blog: we're here for new Echos, Kindles, and more
Introducing ChatGPT Pulse | OpenAI
Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant
That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement
It's official: Google says the Android and ChromeOS merger is coming 'next year'
Blippo+
Guardian sliders
Ive's $4,800 lantern
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Guest: Raiza Martin
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IM 838: Fat Bears Live Now! - Inside the AI Gold Rush
Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.
Interview with Steven Levy
Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
Can We Afford AI?
Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
"My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
More! Shrimp!
Wounded robots
Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI
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Guest: Steven Levy
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IM 837: Could Should Might Don't - Why Tomorrow Doesn't Feel Like Sci-Fi
IM 836: I See OJ and He Looks Scared - Modern Oracles or Modern BS?
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
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IM 835: Glitch Lord - Inside OpenAI's Secret Struggles and the 'Empire of AI' With Karen Hao
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

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