Intelligent Machines (Audio)

What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch.

DevDay 2026 Recap

Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

(7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X

OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

"I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang

Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System

NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring

Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI

AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI

Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr

Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.

A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes

Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs

Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac

AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds

Mac-mini-powered Cray

Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears

SF Currently

This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York

Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich

Taco Bell finder

Where to watch the Musk doc

Jeff's book talk in Mass.



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mike Gannotti

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Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep missing.

Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety

MetaConnect on during the show

Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more

Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series

Google CC

I'm Upping My P(Doom)

Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud

Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy

On 'Cupertino,' Creators of the 'The Good Wife' Go to Silicon Valley

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Patrick Hillmann

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Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet

(4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X

Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine

Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'

They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Lon Seidman

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Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI

Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle

Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet

(4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X

Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine

Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'

They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Lon Seidman

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As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought.

Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts

Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears

An Alien Mind

Muse - Your Personal AI Agent

Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation's Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools

Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls on Trial in October Movie Pileup

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Matthew Cassinelli

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