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Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Section 230 at Thirty
Hosts debate Section 230's role in algorithmic moderation, liability, and the balance between free expression and platform responsibility.
Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work.
- Something Big Is Happening
- Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
- Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
- Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech
- Google's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
- OpenAI's Meta makeover
- ChatGPT's deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports
- Alexa+, Amazon's AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.
- Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
- AI didn't kill customer support. It's rebuilding it
- Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters
most for their kids. - A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
- AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
- Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
- Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
- How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
- LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study
- HBR: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
- As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
- Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis
- Medicare's new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here's why it's risky
- Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
- Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps
- The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt
- Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
- Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine's Day messages a good idea?
- As Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They're Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable
- YouTube Argues It Isn't Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
- 'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas
- Understanding Neural Network, Visually
- Leo's AI Journey
- The TIMELINE
- TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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