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.

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New episodes every Wednesday.

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IM 894: Ghosting Meta Muse - Will Cloud Spending Sink AI's Biggest Players?

29 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 20 min
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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. Lees meer

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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IM 893: It All Comes Back to Cats - From Academic Papers to 1.2 Million Startup Ideas

22 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 26 min
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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. Lees meer

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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IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution

15 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 32 min
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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. Lees meer

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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IM 891: Previously on Swarm Chasers - Digital Swarms and the Persistence Problem

8 oktober 2026 · 3 uur 14 min
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From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their actions matters more than ever. Lees meer

AMistral CEO interview (use Translate)

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Profile of Mark Zuckerberg

Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999

Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

Court Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played

They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue

AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China

Google announces SynthID Detector

Fortune headline: "I wrote The Future of Truth, and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes. I've chosen to fight back."

Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.

How A.I. Can Boost Democracy

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Normal Tools

Gina's Make Great Software

Paul Theroux: True North

Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Spencer Thompson

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IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs

1 oktober 2026 · 2 uur 53 min
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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. Lees meer

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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IM 889: We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning

24 september 2026 · 2 uur 37 min
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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. Lees meer

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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IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate

17 september 2026 · 2 uur 42 min
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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. Lees meer

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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IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul

10 september 2026 · 2 uur 21 min
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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. Lees meer

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

chat jimmy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent

Guest: Matthew Cassinelli

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IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone

3 september 2026 · 2 uur 44 min
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Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays. Lees meer

Judge Rules on Google Ads Case

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India

Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk

OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns

Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?

OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire

Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera

Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai

YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links

Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search

I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help

MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality

Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design

September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more

(155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X

Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?

Unusual Suspects

Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers

Archived video

CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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IM 885: Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs?

27 augustus 2026 · 2 uur 22 min
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With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence? Lees meer

(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X

Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs

Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal

Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children

Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content

Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'

(214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X

Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI

A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.

Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind

Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.

Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Co-Host: Christina Warren

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