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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots. The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds. On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month.
New episodes every Wednesday.
New episodes every Wednesday.
Episodes
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Mar 26, 2026 • 0sec
IM 863: Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials
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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Mar 19, 2026 • 3h 1min
IM 862: Ménage à Claude - AI, Human Agency, and Economic Value
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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Mar 12, 2026 • 3h 13min
IM 861: We Have Computer At Home - Coffee and the Rise of the Machines
Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.
OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns
ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy
OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud
Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal
BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks
OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot
OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again
OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community
Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years
Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips
Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
Where did you think the training data was coming from?
You could be an influencer without even realizing it
Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots
Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer
A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"
AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more
William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity
YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company
ET Fall Preview 1994
Payphone Go
This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day
Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Guy Kawasaki
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Mar 5, 2026 • 2h 8min
IM 860: You Gotta Get Computer - Claude Surges to No. 1
A principled stand by an underdog AI company ignites a mass migration of users, shakes up Silicon Valley talent wars, and leaves even the tech giants recalculating their moves. Hear how one weekend suddenly redrew the lines on ethics, leadership, and who controls the future of AI.
Interview with Dan Patterson of Blackbird.ai
Stratechery: Anthropic and Alignment
SAMA's prevaricating, panicked posts
Google employees call for military limits on AI amid Iran strikes, Anthropic fallout
Amazon says drone strikes damaged 3 facilities in UAE and Bahrain
Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
Because Leo isn't here...
Mark Zuckerberg's $170 Million Mansion Buy Breaks Miami Price Records
Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First
Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau
Co-Host: Jason Hiner
Guest: Dan Patterson
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Feb 26, 2026 • 3h 5min
IM 859: What's Behind the Fox? - Tech's Gilded Age
What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.
Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight
Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans
My first vibe coding project!
Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals
IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera
ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics
"Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"
Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
You can now make Alexa's AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
Claude Remote-Control
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando
AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot
Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself
Men 'yell' at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women
It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'—and It's No Joke
I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak
This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby
Famous Signatures Through History
Finally got a Fujifilm!
I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay
Jeff's new friends
How far back in time can you understand English?
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jeff Atwood
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Feb 19, 2026 • 2h 52min
IM 858: The Itinerant Salt Miner from Buffalo - Silicon Valley's Military Dilemma
OpenClaw's creator makes headlines by joining OpenAI after GitHub fame and a whirlwind of VC and big tech offers, redefining what's possible for independent developers in the AI arms race. Is this the year agentic AI goes mainstream, and are the big players ready for that disruption?
OpenClaw, OpenAI and the future | Peter Steinberger
OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw. - The New York Times
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6
Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Google's Pixel 10a Launches on March 5 for $499
Google's AI drug discovery spinoff Isomorphic Labs claims major leap beyond AlphaFold 3
Gemini 3 Deep Think: AI model update designed for science
Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment
An AI project is creating videos to go with Supreme Court justices' real words
I used Claude to negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. In a complex healthcare system, AI is giving patients power.
Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs
AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li's Startup World Labs Raises $1 Billion
Yann v. Yoshua on directed systems
Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story
Plain Dealer using AI to write reporters' stories
Mediahuis trials use of AI agents to carry out 'first-line' news reporting
DJI's first robovac is an autonomous cleaning drone you can't trust
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
ai;dr
I hate my AI pet with every fiber of my being
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
peon-ping — Stop babysitting your terminal
Hugo Barra makes a to-do agent
Raspberry Pi soars 40% as CEO buys stock, AI chatter builds
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini
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Feb 12, 2026 • 2h 46min
IM 857: Taskrabbit Arbitrage - Disposable Code and Automation
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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Feb 5, 2026 • 2h 45min
IM 856: SecretlyBriti.sh - From Humans to Hive Minds
The podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes dangerous edges. If you thought ChatGPT was a revolution, wait until you hear how developers are orchestrating armies of AIs with real-world impact.
Anthropic's Move Into Legal Is Sinking Data Services Stocks
Data centers in space makes no sense
The hitchhiker's guide to Musk's SpaceX memo
Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear - Nature
OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month
Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there's 'no drama' with Sam Altman
Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features
Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
French office of Elon Musk's X raided by Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit
An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account
Darren Aronofsky's AI Studio Used Artificial Intelligence Tools for Revolutionary War Animated Series — but Hired Human Actors to Voice Founding Fathers
Forget Hinge or Bumble. This App Promises a Personal AI Matchmaker
Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut
Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction in Europe
The Matrix Resurrections Is a Messy, Imperfect Triumph
The Thatcher Effect and other Optical Toys
Fascinating Research: AIs are highly inconsistent [i.e., random] when recommending brands or products
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steve Yegge
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Jan 29, 2026 • 2h 31min
IM 855: When You're Right, You're Right - Why Firefox Still Matters
Mark Surman, president of the Mozilla Foundation, a longtime internet advocate for open, user-first tech. He discusses Mozilla’s State of Mozilla, a $650M plan to fund open and trustworthy AI, the Any-LLM developer approach, a “Rebel Alliance” strategy to prevent AI monoculture, and proposals like a Trusted AI mode and ethical data marketplace.
Jan 22, 2026 • 2h 18min
IM 854: Welcome to the Pitt - AI: A Brand or a Breakthrough?
Thomas Haigh, historian of computing and author on AI history, gives a compact tour of AI's branding and evolution. He challenges the AI winter myth. He traces neural nets, symbolic AI, expert systems, and how machine learning reclaimed the AI label. He also weighs big tech centralization, compute-driven revivals, and possible brand fatigue ahead.


