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    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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    IM 895: Unsustainably High - Tech Billionaires vs. Voters Nov 04, 2026
    Show notes

    This episode unpacks how an unprecedented anti-data center backlash swept the 2026 elections, leaving tech giants scrambling and upending the future of AI infrastructure. Find out why voters everywhere said "no" and what it means for the next wave of artificial intelligence.

    • Data Centers lose BIGLY in the 2026 Elections
    • Campaign texts, now powered by AI: How new tech is shaping voter outreach
    • Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers
    • Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
    • Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI
    • Sam Altman wants YOUR RAM in HIS cloud
    • Elon Musk had his Mean Girls Moment
    • Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
    • Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
    • Google has a Data Center in Space... and it's writing poetry!
    • OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses"
    • AI Spenders Get Spooked
    • Musk says Grok bot's costs were 'unsustainably high' weeks after touting rapid growth
    • He got a religious exemption from using AI at work. Maybe you can too
    • The best coffee is back at PERC
    • Padre's Cofeemaker
    • Cupertino

    Hosts: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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

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    IM 894: Ghosting Meta Muse - Will Cloud Spending Sink AI's Biggest Players? Oct 28, 2026
    Show notes

    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.

    • 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

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

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    IM 893: It All Comes Back to Cats - From Academic Papers to 1.2 Million Startup Ideas Oct 21, 2026
    Show notes

    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.

    • 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

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

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    • originhq.com/intelligentmachines
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    • outshift.com

    IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution Oct 14, 2026
    Show notes

    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.

    • 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

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

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    IM 891: Previously on Swarm Chasers - Digital Swarms and the Persistence Problem Oct 07, 2026
    Show notes

    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

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

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    IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs Sep 30, 2026
    Show notes

    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

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

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    IM 889: We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning Sep 23, 2026
    Show notes

    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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    • scribe.how/machines
    • originhq.com/intelligentmachines

    IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate Sep 16, 2026
    Show notes

    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.

    • 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

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

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    • claude.ai/technology
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    IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul Sep 09, 2026
    Show notes

    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.

    • 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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    • horizon3.ai/intelligent

    IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone Sep 02, 2026
    Show notes

    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.

    • 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

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

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