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    IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks

    2026-08-12 | 2h 35 mins.
    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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    IM 882: AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker

    2026-08-03 | 2h 29 mins.
    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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    IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age

    2026-07-29 | 2h 8 mins.
    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

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    IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?

    2026-07-22 | 2h 38 mins.
    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

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    IM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?

    2026-07-15 | 2h 24 mins.
    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

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About Intelligent Machines (Audio)
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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