Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Can one developer's breakthrough double or even quadruple local AI performance on your own hardware? Explore how TensorFold could make cloud-based models look slow and why giants like Apple and Nvidia are taking notice.

• Nvidia is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang
• The Nvidia capital atlas: really good graphics
• (12) Fireside Alpha on X: "Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles" "You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, mental illness, these will be https://t.co/quRQbixDSu" / X
• AMD Zen 6 EPYC 'Venice' deep dive and benchmarking – 9686F outclasses Nvidia's Vera, dual EPYC 9996 with 1,024 threads delivers up to 93% performance gain gen-on-gen
• Anthropic to Seek $1.3 Trillion Valuation in IPO
• Anthropic to Proceed With IPO Roadshow Next Week
• 3 takeaways from the big AI report on Anthropic everyone is talking about
• Anthropic lets Claude read your bank accounts, but not move money
• OpenAI Completes $11 Billion Portion of Funding at $1.25 Trillion Value
• Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
• DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
• Google touts AI breakthrough, path to "unhackable" software
• Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable
• Google Won't Give Schools the One Thing They Want
• AI teddy for three-year-olds gave unprompted self-harm reply, BBC finds
• United Airlines Is Banning AI Bots From Booking Flights
• Alex Karp says he's a lifelong Democrat — and Palantir's products are 'essentially progressive'
• I Used NYT Cooking's New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It's Actually Pretty Good
• Spelunkr - cable TV but weirder
• danah boyd: No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.
• remember the world bollard association
• Munich's Alguth Stone

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Ash Hart

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Hands-On AI is the show that turns AI confusion into AI confidence. In this trailer, Mikah Sargent lays out what the show is and isn't: short, focused episodes — most 10 to 15 minutes — that take one question, one tool, or one technique at a time. Some weeks go under the hood on what a large language model is actually doing. Some weeks get practical: the AI already in your pocket, or a model running entirely on your own computer. And some weeks are honest verdicts on the tools everyone's talking about.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?

• (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X
• Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs
• Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal
• Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
• Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content
• Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan'
• (214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X
• Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI
• A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
• Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind
• Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.
• Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Co-Host: Christina Warren

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Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse.

• Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter
• (272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X
• If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them
• Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI
• Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks
• Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
• Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
• OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow
• Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside
• So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?
• LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T
• New Chinese model adds to AI competition
• What happens to what you share with AI
• Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training
• Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
• Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
• the wikipedia guessing game
• Okay Spielberg TikTok
• At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer
• SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dan O'Dowd

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Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.

• How Claude marks AI-generated content
• Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone
• Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
• Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet
• OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300
• Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion
• High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating
• Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal With Bitcoin Riot Platforms
• US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon
• Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that's designed to understand sign language
• Phoebe Gates Knew Phia Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive
• Wired: Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
• "* David Corn: I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad."
• Yea or Nay
• BMW Owners Angry 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ads Are Suddenly in Their Cars: "F*** This"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nicholas De Leon

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Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.

• OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
• OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
• Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
• Altman says he supports AI regulation
• Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC
• White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework
• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
• The Math Superstar Who's Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
• Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun
• As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
• Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
• The Red-Hot Book at the Center of an AI Mystery
• A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
• The Autonomous Press - Numbered Papers
• Musk's latest ridiculous prediction: Optimus better than human surgeons in 4 years
• The Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Phillip Shoemaker

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Business Insider founder Henry Blodget 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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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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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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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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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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Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators.

• Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
• The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
• N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute
• Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order
• Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what
• Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years
• Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI
• Identity verification on Claude
• Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
• Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins
• Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids
• YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids
• OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
• Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership
• OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026
• OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos
• Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal
• Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban
• We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses
• Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses
• AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid
• China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
• AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
• Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans
• A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman.
• Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
• Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher
• AI Economics for Dummies
• We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I.
• In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch
• UK TV to be turned off
• Computer History Museum's AI Archive
• Airport Dad

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Olivier Sylvain

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