Intelligent Machines (Audio)

OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?

OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team

Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times

Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499

Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3

Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood

GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment

An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words

I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.

Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs

AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion

Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems

Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story

Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories

Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting

DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs

ai;dr

I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School

peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal

Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent

Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini

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Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work.

Something Big Is Happening

Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion

Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech

Google's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

OpenAI's Meta makeover

ChatGPT's deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports

Alexa+, Amazon's AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.

Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production

AI didn't kill customer support. It's rebuilding it

Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters

most for their kids.

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic

Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl

Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs

How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?

LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study

HBR: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis

Medicare's new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here's why it's risky

Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons

Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps

The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt

Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping

Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine's Day messages a good idea?

As Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They're Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable

YouTube Argues It Isn't Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial

'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

Leo's AI Journey

The TIMELINE

TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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The podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact.

Anthropic's Move Into Legal Is Sinking Data Services Stocks

Data centers in space makes no sense

The hitchhiker's guide to Musk's SpaceX memo

Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear - Nature

OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month

Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims

French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit

An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account

Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers

Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker

Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut

Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe

The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph

The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys

Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steve Yegge

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Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.

State of Mozilla 2025/26

Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash

Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini

Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen

I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

Proof of Corn

Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says

How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence

Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models

Claude's new constitution

"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?

Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mark Surman

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Think you know the story of AI's rise and fall? This episode upends conventional wisdom with guest historian Thomas Haigh, who reveals why the infamous "AI winter" might just be a myth and why the field's biggest failures fueled today's breakthroughs.

Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI

NVDA, GOOGL, META: AI Spending Forecast to Hit $2.53 Trillion This Year

Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs

Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

How Generative AI is destroying society - by Gary Marcus

Anthropic rewrites Claude's guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have 'some kind of consciousness or moral status'

Claude's new constitution

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Thomas Haigh

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