

Intelligent Machines (Video)
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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.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
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Aug 7, 2025 • 2h 38min
IM 831: 9 Seconds of Google - Holy Widgets
Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)
Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop
Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data
Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry
AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.
When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....
AI vegans
Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code
Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of
Good guy humpback whales
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Vlad Prelovac
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Jul 31, 2025 • 2h 53min
IM 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy - Personal Superintelligence?
Interview with Ian Krietzberg
Leo's shows off his new AI toys
Paris unveils her new desk setup
Personal Superintelligence
You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.
Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang
Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content
Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip
The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models
My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX
Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk
Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster
Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out
TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show
This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
JC makes wine
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Ian Krietzberg
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Jul 24, 2025 • 2h 57min
IM 829: The Yonkers Questions - What's New With NotebookLM
Interview with Steven Johnson
Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch
(21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X
Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
(21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces
A new study just upended AI safety
'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
Tesla results
Total Party Kill
Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen
Attack of the clever crows
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steven Johnson
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Jul 17, 2025 • 2h 20min
IM 828: Stochastic Carrots - Navigating the Future of AI
Interview with Anil Dash
egirl Grok x Claude
Zuckerberg announces Meta's new AI data centers for superintelligence
Meta Hires Two More OpenAI Researchers
Reflections on OpenAI
RSS is (not) dead (yet) (NED #3) – audra mcnamee
Perplexity AI browser
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
Stewart Holbrook: Portland Mythmaker
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Fun With A.I.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Anil Dash
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Jul 10, 2025 • 2h 48min
IM 827: Marco Rubio on Line 1 - The Promise of Personalized Software
Interview with Mike Masnick
Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
The one secret to using genAI to boost your brain
Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X
How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI
As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT
(21) Josh Woodward on X: "The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://t.co/uPa0p0KQZu" / X
Chinese robot dog nears Usain Bolt speed, breaks global record
Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
A.I.'s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck)
A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
Zitron: OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
Grammarly Authorship
CalMatters Digital Democracy
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan
Guest: Mike Masnick
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Jul 3, 2025 • 2h 36min
IM 826: Cusp of Noodles - The AI Copyright Battle Heats Up
Interview with Board Member of Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases
How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It's Not Writing Articles)
Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you
The Internet Needs Sex
Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws
Adam Thierer reacts
Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot
The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners
People are using AI to 'sit' with them while they trip on psychedelics
China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match
AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions
AI helps find formula for paint to keep buildings cooler
Microsoft's New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy - Slashdot
It's Known as 'The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses
The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence
We used Veo to animate archive photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum
G/O Media Winds Down by Selling Kotaku, One of Its Last Sites
Roadside America Dot Com
Cluely pitches itself as undectable AI
Lorde's new album: Virgin
AI recipe creation
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: John Graham-Cumming
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Jun 26, 2025 • 3h 6min
IM 825: The Evil Clown of Middletown - Death By Powerpoint
Interview with Richard Gingras
Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books
Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It
Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI
Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch
OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
Is AI the End of Dating Apps?
Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI?
gist.ai
Jeff talks about the new AI Chromebook
Veo sinkhole videos
Wiki Radio 📻
Tennis robot
The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003
Zuck's new specs
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Richard Gingras
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Jun 19, 2025 • 2h 12min
IM 824: Full-Body Air-Quotes - AI in Higher Education
Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum
Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI
Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition
Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'
OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition
Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon
Inside the AI Party at the End of the World
AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games
L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Brooklyn TK
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Matthew Kirschenbaum
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Jun 12, 2025 • 3h 12min
IM 823: Intelligent with Two G's - Google Has a Fox Problem
In this engaging discussion, Stephen Witt, a writer and journalist known for his work on AI and tech, shares insights into the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. He delves into the lawsuit between major entertainment companies and an AI firm over copyright issues, pondering the complex intersection of creativity and technology. Witt also humorously recounts encounters with urban wildlife, particularly the foxes wreaking havoc at Google's office, while reflecting on the ethical implications of AI in society.

Jun 5, 2025 • 2h 53min
IM 822: The One Man Unicorn - AI In Psychiatry
Jacob Ward, a journalist and author of 'The Loop,' joins Daniel Oberhaus, author of 'The Silicon Shrink.' They dive into the ethics of AI in psychiatry, highlighting concerns about trust and the personal implications of sharing thoughts with machines. Their discussion navigates the potential risks of AI replacing therapists and the pervasive misinformation in mental health content, emphasizing the need for transparency and ethical standards. The guests humorously tackle complex topics, blending personal anecdotes with pressing questions about the future of mental health care.