Intelligent Machines (Audio)

British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook

Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

Students boo AI at commencement: video

Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'

(20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X

NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA

Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push

VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.

Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of

Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online

Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year

Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools

The new Wild West of AI kids' toys

Internet Archive Switzerland

Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google

Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.

The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre

AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies

Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'

Hallucinopedia

Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'

Sand shortage



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.

White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models

Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic

Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi

We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.

When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd

I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.

Say Hello to the Internet of AI

The greatest capital misallocation in history?

AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog

China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.

Academy announces major overhaul to rules

AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs

Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?

As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'

Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art

Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'

He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

Empty Screenings

Furwall by Ollie Wagner

DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI

So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet

The Python Hunt

News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content

Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive

Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page

Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Troy Hunt

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Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware matters more than ever—and what's at risk if we don't.

Alphabet tops Q1 estimates on strong Google Cloud growth

Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?

OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model

OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft

Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for 'any lawful government purpose'

Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared

OpenAI Set to Redefine Smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare Key to Its AI Agent Phone

Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race - Fast Company

Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok

The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path

Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not

Generative AI vegetarianism

To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch

* Chloe vs. History

Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch

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Felvidek

Amazon's AI product podcasts

64″D Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber

Timmy's rescue

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nirav Patel

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Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.

CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning

Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist

Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands

News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch

Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell

Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion

Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding

Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services

Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts

Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI

Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War

AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too

Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less

New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs

This pasta sauce wants to record your family

LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Depths of Wikipedia

GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.

Is Your Site Agent-Ready?

Jeff's Gemini happy ending

The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost

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When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters

Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed

Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work

OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft

The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read

Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool

Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label

Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch

Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators

Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings

Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'

Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface

After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI

Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI

'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For

AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella

I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?

Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'

I/O schedule

Haunted Paper Toys

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now

DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS

TRAIN JAZZ

The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Mod

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