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    IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age

    29/07/2026 | 2h 8 mins.
    Business Insider founder Henry Blodgett unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this.

    Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

    Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

    AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

    Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic

    OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

    A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

    Trump administration to ban new Chinese robots and inverters, protecting U.S. AI

    Why AI Needs a "Genie Coefficient"

    Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear

    The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection

    Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

    DeepMind paper says LLMs won't be good at scientific discovery: LLMs can't jump

    Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, winding down most flagship models

    An ESP32 based plane radar

    The Tick That Hunts Down Its Hosts—Including Us

    prompt-injection resumes

    The McLuhan Marshalling Machine

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Henry Blodget

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    IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?

    22/07/2026 | 2h 38 mins.
    An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.

    Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible

    AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture

    Quoting Sam Altman

    Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball

    Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic

    Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order

    Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states

    NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

    Google's Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains

    Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal

    Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

    AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic

    Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: 'We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities'

    Bellwether Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped

    Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon

    Cyclospora all the time

    Jensen's jacket auctioned. Guess the price

    " Everyone Gets Lost at the Pitbull Concert"

    John C. Dvorak dies at age 80

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Nate B. Jones

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    IM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?

    15/07/2026 | 2h 24 mins.
    With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them.

    Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/

    Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole trade Secrets

    Google's Demis Hassabis says it's time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US

    Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days

    White House details 'Gold Eagle' clearinghouse for AI cyber threats

    Introducing GPT-Live

    From Chatbot to Command Center

    OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

    A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X

    What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)

    Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

    PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone

    Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI's AGI work due to illness

    OpenAI has folded safety into research again. Its head of safety is leaving.

    We built a vulnerability vending machine: AI tokens in, zero-days out

    Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content

    White House not ruling out action on open-source AI models

    The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI - WSJ

    Super Dario: One More Week

    How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing | jola.dev

    History of LLMs: Complete Timeline & Evolution (1950-2026)

    No, You Shouldn't Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora

    Google creator profiles

    Dust jacket



    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Raffi Krikorian

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    IM 878: The 1AM Bus to Chinatown - Robots, Bison, and the Art of Savoring Small Stuff

    08/07/2026 | 3h 5 mins.
    Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better.

    OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9

    Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say

    OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

    Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed as quickly as he'd hoped

    Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us

    Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos

    Meta tests 'super sensing' AI glasses that can capture every moment

    Google's AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

    Nvidia's Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame

    Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies

    A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal

    Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

    Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat

    Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders

    Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie 'Misaligned,' Marking Feature Debut for AI 'Actor'

    MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand

    lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features

    GuideAlong

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Ian Bogost

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    IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models

    01/07/2026 | 2h 47 mins.
    Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.

    Fable is Back!

    Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".

    China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips

    Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI

    Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product

    Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

    The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft

    OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design

    Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It

    How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack

    Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

    Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls

    Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

    People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms

    SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device

    * Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

    Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028

    US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections

    Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

    * Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

    The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring

    Political Bias in AI

    Om Malik, 1966-2026

    Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

    My post: California's squandered opportunity

    Palantir coat

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

    Guest: Chris Potts

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About 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. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Wednesday.
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