Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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.

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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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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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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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

Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines.

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