Intelligent Machines (Audio)

When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters

Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed

Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work

OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft

The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read

Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool

Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label

Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development

Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch

Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators

Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings

Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'

Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface

After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI

Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI

'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For

AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella

I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?

Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount

OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'

I/O schedule

Haunted Paper Toys

Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now

DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS

TRAIN JAZZ

The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?



Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Craig Mod

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A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this technology escapes the lab.

Claude Mythos Preview System Card - Claude Mythos Preview System Card.pdf

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

Meta Employees Vie for AI 'Token Legend' Status

Meta releases new model for Social Media "Muse Spark"

Why OpenAI's Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy

How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?

Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds

How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

The back story behind the first "$1.8 Billion" dollar "AI Company"

It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

Cloudflare builds what it calls the successor to WordPress

JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman

Mvidia

Old NYC records

Basketball is.... good?

QVC, HSN cable networks face Chapter 11, insolvency

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Daniel Miessler

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What happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find out how Every is challenging the boundaries between tech and culture and why even seasoned journalists are wrestling with these tools.

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

(Il)Legal Python Port

Claude Code Unpacked

Spinner Verbs

RANK SPECULATION: Capybara cost - AI haves and have nots. And whither spud?

Another supply chain attack on NPM

OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors

SpaceX Has Filed Confidentially for IPO Ahead of AI Rivals

Gmail rolling out AI Inbox beta for AI Ultra subscribers

You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago

Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance

EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state

Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda

15% of Americans say they'd be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll

More Than Half of US Says AI Likely to Harm Them, Poll Finds

The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want

'Most People Don't Enjoy Their Jobs:' Perplexity CEO Says AI Layoffs Are Chance To Launch AI-Powered Ventures

Biggest AI conference traps researchers, presuming AI as cheating

An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.

Obsolete Sounds

The oldest job in journalism: New York Post 'runners' defy AI

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kate Lee

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Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a journalist, flagging what's truly new and revealing the patterns that matter. If you want to stay several steps ahead in the AI race, this episode is a must-listen.

Malware autodownloaded by AI agents

Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was "inevitable" on its apps

We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

Apple Can 'Distill' Google's Big Gemini Model

Apple Plans AI Reboot With Siri App, New Look and 'Ask Siri' Button in iOS 27

Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic

A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace

A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using

Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies

Jury finds Elon Musk guilty of defrauding Twitter investors [U]

Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80

AI Doc trailer

reflect — Time-Travel Reflection for Obsidian

Esoteric Ebb

Butthole

Regex Blaster

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent oversight in the world of artificial intelligence.

Nvidia Unveils NemoClaw Agent Software

Nvidia's NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

Jensen just put Nvidia's Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere

Nvidia Unveils Groq-Based Chip System to Speed Up AI Tasks Like Coding

Nvidia's DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse

Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion

Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web

Meta's Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw

Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano | OpenAI

Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for

both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat

Inside OpenAI's Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

OpenAI, Musk and Focus

A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model

Hustlers are cashing in on China's OpenClaw AI craze

Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases - Slashdot

AI Agent Hacks McKinsey

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity

AI companies want to harvest improv actors' skills to train AI on human emotion

A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case

Digg's open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report

Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away - Slashdot

Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'

German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96

CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?

We tried White Castle from an airport vending machine. It was bleak.

I tried BigArch. A big mess.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Guest: Rumman Chowdhury

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