Intelligent Machines (Audio) – Details, episodes & analysis

• Interview with Stephen Witt
• Altman's Gentle Singularity
• Sutskever video: start at 5:50-6:40
• Paris on Apple Glass
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
• Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement
• Apple paper: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
• Futurism on the paper
• Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss
• YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos
• Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence'
• Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers
• Amazon 'testing humanoid robots to deliver packages'
• Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1bn London office
• 23andMe's Former CEO Pushes Purchase Price Nearly $50 Million Higher
• Code to control vocal production with hands
• Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year
• Social media creators to overtake traditional media in ad revenue this year

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Stephen Witt

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• Daniel Oberhaus Interview
• Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
• CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine'
• Indian AI Startup Worth Billions Turns Out to Be Biggest Scam Ever
• AI Humanizer & Detector – Make AI Text Undetectable | Walter AI
• This study used Reddit's AITA to test how sycophantic AI is
• More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds
• The OpenAI Board Drama Is Turning Into a Movie - Slashdot
• Google's NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
• AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
• 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn't ChatGPT.
• Morgan Stanley Says Its AI Tool Processed 9 Million Lines of Legacy Code This Year And Saved 280,000 Developer Hours
• Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleges Unauthorized Use of Site's Data
• Most new cars in Norway are EVs.
• David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
• Fake My Run
• The Nest (1988)

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guests: Jacob Ward and Daniel Oberhaus

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• Interview with Adam Becker
• Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology
• Joanna Sterns stars in WSJ Veo film
• Wow: So this is all AI-generated. (with Veo)
• Business Owners Are Using AI-Generated 'Concerned Residents' To Fight Proposed Bus Line In Toronto - Slashdot
• venice.ai
• Google's Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger's dream
• Duolingo CEO Clarifies AI-First Plan After Backlash, Says AI Won't Replace Employees
• The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us
• Nvidia results
• "Just Count the Server Racks"...
• Why one of the world's major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia
• Henry Blodget is the only employee in an AI newsroom
• Claude's System Card
• Film and Television Script Archive
• David Lynch auction
• A new season of Taskmaster!
• Mountainhead

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Adam Becker

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• Interview with Kate O'Neill
• Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
• Personal context is Google's big advantage in AI
• Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads
• Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
• Google's Gemini AI is coming to Volvo cars
• We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI'
• OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
• China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
• The environmental impact of LLMs ranked
• NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?
• Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified
• Google Challenges Meta With Smarter Glasses
• Watch Me Try Google's Live Language Translator. It's Wild.
• Google's Sergey Brin: 'I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass'
• How Kara Swisher Scaled Even Higher
• No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts
• AI Discovers Suspected Trigger of Alzheimer's, And Maybe a Treatment
• OpenAI is buying iPhone designer Jony Ive's AI devices startup for $6.4 billion
• Gingers are Black
• Who is the "Tech TV hottie" mentioned in Kimya Dawson's 2004 song from the Juno soundtrack???
• Some great new Apple Podcast reviews make mention of a certain jingle...
• New details emerge in death of Texas Renaissance Festival king, George Coulam
• Lego cat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kate O'Neill (Tech Humanist)

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• Interview with Mike Masnick
• Stop Begging Billionaires To Fix Software — Build Your Own
• The one secret to using genAI to boost your brain
• Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X
• How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI
• As an M.D, here's my 100% honest opinion and observations/advices about using ChatGPT : r/ChatGPT
• (21) Josh Woodward on X: "The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish https://t.co/uPa0p0KQZu" / X
• Chinese robot dog nears Usain Bolt speed, breaks global record
• Vibe Coder' Who Doesn't Know How to Code Keeps Winning Hackathons in San Francisco
• A.I.'s Hidden Layer (And Why I Joined Puck)
• A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
• Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
• Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
• Zitron: OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
• Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots
• Grammarly Authorship
• CalMatters Digital Democracy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Mike Masnick

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• Interview with Board Member of Cloudflare, John Graham-Cumming
• My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
• Two Judges, Same District, Opposite Conclusions: The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases
• How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It's Not Writing Articles)
• Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you
• The Internet Needs Sex
• Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws
• Adam Thierer reacts
• Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot
• The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners
• People are using AI to 'sit' with them while they trip on psychedelics
• China hosts first fully autonomous AI robot football match
• AI virtual personality YouTubers, or 'VTubers,' are earning millions
• AI helps find formula for paint to keep buildings cooler
• Microsoft's New AI Tool Outperforms Doctors 4-to-1 in Diagnostic Accuracy - Slashdot
• It's Known as 'The List'—and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses
• The AI Company Zuckerberg Just Poured $14 Billion Into Is Reportedly a Clown Show of Ludicrous Incompetence
• We used Veo to animate archive photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum
• G/O Media Winds Down by Selling Kotaku, One of Its Last Sites
• Roadside America Dot Com
• Cluely pitches itself as undectable AI
• Lorde's new album: Virgin
• AI recipe creation

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: John Graham-Cumming

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• Interview with Richard Gingras
• Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books
• Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren't Doing It
• Meta, Amazon, and more want 10-year ban on states regulating AI
• Pope Leo makes AI's threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch
• OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models
• My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
• Is AI the End of Dating Apps?
• Can You Really Have a Romantic Relationship With AI?
• gist.ai
• Jeff talks about the new AI Chromebook
• Veo sinkhole videos
• Wiki Radio 📻
• Tennis robot
• The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003
• Zuck's new specs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Richard Gingras

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• Interview with Matthew Kirschenbaum
• Chatterbox TTS - a Hugging Face Space by ResembleAI
• Here's the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
• Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition
• Oracle CEO Says OpenAI's Stargate Venture 'Not Formed Yet'
• OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
• They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
• Smart Lamp Keeps Students On Track With Image Recognition
• Google's Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon
• Inside the AI Party at the End of the World
• AI Barbie? Mattel & OpenAI Team Up For Smart Toys & Games
• L'Oréal Taps Nvidia Tech to Supercharge Its AI Efforts
• They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
• Brooklyn TK

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Matthew Kirschenbaum

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• Interview with Anil Dash
• egirl Grok x Claude
• Zuckerberg announces Meta's new AI data centers for superintelligence
• Meta Hires Two More OpenAI Researchers
• Reflections on OpenAI
• RSS is (not) dead (yet) (NED #3) – audra mcnamee
• Perplexity AI browser
• Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads
• Stewart Holbrook: Portland Mythmaker
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Fun With A.I.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Anil Dash

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• Interview with Steven Johnson
• Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch
• (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X
• Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
• The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
  OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
  SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground
• (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X
• It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
• Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
• Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces
• A new study just upended AI safety
• 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
• Tesla results
• Total Party Kill
• Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen
• Attack of the clever crows

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Johnson

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