Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.

Judge Rules on Google Ads Case

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India

Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk

OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns

Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?

OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire

Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera

Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai

YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links

Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search

I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help

MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality

Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more

(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X

Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

Unusual Suspects

Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers

Archived video

CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?

(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X

Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal

Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children

Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content

Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'

(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X

Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI

A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.

Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind

Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.

Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Co-Host: Christina Warren

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Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse.

Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter

(272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X

If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them

Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI

Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow

Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside

So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?

LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T

New Chinese model adds to AI competition

What happens to what you share with AI

Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training

Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

the wikipedia guessing game

Okay Spielberg TikTok

At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer

SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dan O'Dowd

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Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.

How Claude marks AI-generated content

Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone

Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device

Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet

OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300

Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion

High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating

Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Riot Platforms

US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon

Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language

Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive

Wired: Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News

"* David Corn: I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad."

Yea or Nay

BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: "F*** This"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nicholas De Leon

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Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

Altman says he supports AI regulation

Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC

White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI

Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun

As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?

The Red-Hot Book at the Center of an AI Mystery

A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year

The Autonomous Press - Numbered Papers

Musk's latest ridiculous prediction: Optimus better than human surgeons in 4 years

The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Phillip Shoemaker

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