Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Can one developer's breakthrough double or even quadruple local AI performance on your own hardware? Explore how TensorFold could make cloud-based models look slow and why giants like Apple and Nvidia are taking notice.

Nvidia is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang

The Nvidia capital atlas: really good graphics

(12) Fireside Alpha on X: "Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles" "You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, mental illness, these will be https://t.co/quRQbixDSu" / X

AMD Zen 6 EPYC 'Venice' deep dive and benchmarking – 9686F outclasses Nvidia's Vera, dual EPYC 9996 with 1,024 threads delivers up to 93% performance gain gen-on-gen

Anthropic to Seek $1.3 Trillion Valuation in IPO

Anthropic to Proceed With IPO Roadshow Next Week

3 takeaways from the big AI report on Anthropic everyone is talking about

Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money

OpenAI Completes $11 Billion Portion of Funding at $1.25 Trillion Value

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

Google touts AI breakthrough, path to "unhackable" software

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google Won't Give Schools the One Thing They Want

AI teddy for three-year-olds gave unprompted self-harm reply, BBC finds

United Airlines Is Banning AI Bots From Booking Flights

Alex Karp says he's a lifelong Democrat — and Palantir's products are 'essentially progressive'

I Used NYT Cooking's New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It's Actually Pretty Good

Spelunkr - cable TV but weirder

danah boyd: No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.

remember the world bollard association

Munich's Alguth Stone

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ash Hart

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This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence.

Data Centers lose BIGLY in the 2026 Elections

Campaign texts, now powered by AI: How new tech is shaping voter outreach

Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers

Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

Sam Altman wants YOUR RAM in HIS cloud

Elon Musk had his Mean Girls Moment

Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences

Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search

Google has a Data Center in Space... and it's writing poetry!

OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses"

AI Spenders Get Spooked

Musk says Grok bot's costs were "unsustainably high" weeks after touting rapid growth

He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too

The best coffee is back at PERC

Padre's Cofeemaker

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Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Is the AI gold rush running on shaky ground? Get the inside story on Anthropic's blockbuster IPO, massive compute bets, and why some insiders think the industry's economics just don't add up.

Anthropic's IPO S-1 Spells Out a Future of Promise and Peril

DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans

(Marissa Meyer) Maybe We All Need an A.I. Wife

Whoops: Meta's Muse Share Links Disclosed All Sorts Of Super-Sensitive User Data

Everybody is freaking out over the NYTimes adding AI to the Cooking app

Wikipedia but only for things a half hour walk away from you

Rest of World faces prospect of shutting down

"WSJ: The Bull Case for AI Armageddon

For investors mulling the Anthropic share offering, a 10% chance of extinction may be a 90% win for your portfolio"

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Jason Hiner

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From AI-generated Halloween scares to personal assistants that just won't quit, the age of at-home intelligence is here. But with each new feature, your privacy, security, and digital autonomy hang in the balance.

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

Meta's Muse AI agent hits 10.9 million downloads as ChatGPT slides 25%

Released This Week : Flux 3 Image Klein (Open Weights)

"Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date"

Video on the DSX Pod starting at 30:40

What if we've misunderstood how AI thinks?

First large‑scale agentic cyberattack on OpenCode

AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

German Court Rules Google Earth is "Spying" on People by Publishing Aerial Photos of Their Homes

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy

Anthropic S-1

Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner Bros. Bid

Bill Gross's AI Tool Could Supercharge the Number of Startups

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

Craig Newmark AMA

A new SubwayTakes star rises: Debbie

How SubwayTakes's First Spinoff Star Outwitted Conan

Some final words on Foursquare.

Squad

Editors Note: Jason Hiner's site is The Deep View, not the Deep Think. Sorry Jason!

Hosts: Louis Maresca, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next.

Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay

(11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports

Muse Wonder

OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math

GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers

Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir'

Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting

REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent

Cupertino

Zuck's beer face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Martin Woodward

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