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Intelligent Machines 890: 200 Donuts

October 1, 2026 · 2 h 53 min

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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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