Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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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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  1. 8 hr ago

    AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker

    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 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 audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/machines

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  3. 5 days ago

    Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age

    Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment' AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting U.S. AI Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient" Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini DeepMind paper says LLMs won't be good at scientific discovery: LLMs can't jump Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models An ESP32 based plane radar The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us prompt-injection resumes The McLuhan Marshalling Machine Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Henry Blodget 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 audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/machines

  4. 23 Jul

    The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?

    An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition. Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture Quoting Sam Altman Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities' Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon Cyclospora all the time Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price " Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert" John C. Dvorak dies at age 80 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Nate B. Jones 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 audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: rippling.ai/machines zscaler.com/security

  5. 16 Jul

    Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?

    With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them. Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/ Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole trade Secrets Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days White House details 'Gold Eagle' clearinghouse for AI cyber threats Introducing GPT-Live From Chatbot to Command Center OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving. We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content White House not ruling out action on open-source AI models The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI - WSJ Super Dario: One More Week How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev History of LLMs: Complete Timeline & Evolution (1950-2026) No, You Shouldn't Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora Google creator profiles Dust jacket Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Raffi Krikorian 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 audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT gusto.com/machines monarch.com with code IM XBOW.com

  6. 9 Jul

    The 1AM Bus to Chinatown - Robots, Bison, and the Art of Savoring Small Stuff

    Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better. OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9 Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor' MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features GuideAlong Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Ian Bogost 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 audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT helixsleep.com/machines gusto.com/machines

  7. 2 Jul

    Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models

    Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on. Fable is Back! Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos". China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device * Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028 US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows * Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring Political Bias in AI Om Malik, 1966-2026 Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep My post: California's squandered opportunity Palantir coat Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan Guest: Chris Potts 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 audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: blackhat.com/us-26 and use code TWIT zscaler.com/security XBOW.com rippling.ai/machines

  8. 25 Jun

    It's No Melania - Section 230 on Trial

    Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators. Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI Identity verification on Claude Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026 OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman. Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher AI Economics for Dummies We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch UK TV to be turned off Computer History Museum's AI Archive Airport Dad Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Olivier Sylvain 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 audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: gusto.com/machines XBOW.com webroot.com/twit

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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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