IM 840: Pudding Forks - Industrial Bubble or Tech Boom?
From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.
No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot
Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems
Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report
Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries
America is now one big bet on AI
The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI
Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year
Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy
A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls
Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits
Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry
CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Have we passed peak social media?
As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain
OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars
Google CodeMender
Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
Our friend Glenn
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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IM 839: Cogsuckers and Clankers - Radio's New Golden Age or Apocalypse?
What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
It's time to prepare for AI personhood
Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: "She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being"
Link to the podslop podcasts
California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law
Sen. Mark Kelly's big plan for an AI future isn't ambitious enough
** DeepMind defines levels of AGI
Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
AI passed the hardest CFA test in minutes
ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart's referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents
Amazon event live blog: we're here for new Echos, Kindles, and more
Introducing ChatGPT Pulse | OpenAI
Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant
That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement
It's official: Google says the Android and ChromeOS merger is coming 'next year'
Blippo+
Guardian sliders
Ive's $4,800 lantern
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Raiza Martin
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IM 838: Fat Bears Live Now! - Inside the AI Gold Rush
Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.
Interview with Steven Levy
Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
Can We Afford AI?
Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
"My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
More! Shrimp!
Wounded robots
Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steven Levy
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IM 837: Could Should Might Don't - Why Tomorrow Doesn't Feel Like Sci-Fi
IM 836: I See OJ and He Looks Scared - Modern Oracles or Modern BS?
AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts."
Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle
AI Watchdog
At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
Most Scraped Websites of 2025
AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.
Alterego
I Hate My Friend
R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot
Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?
OpenAI's post on the paper
Gina Trappani starts a new blog
Schnitzel press
NFL Debut on YouTube Draws 17.3 Million
Set a two TikTok toilet limit to reduce haemorrhoid risk, doctors advise"
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Co-Host: Harper Reed
Guests: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
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