Intelligent Machines (Audio)

AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next generation of stories. AThis is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark Anthropic has officially filed to go public Google Seeks $80 Billion for AI Buildout; Berkshire Will Buy $10 Billion Stake Amazon's AI jackpot: Its $8 billion Anthropic holdings are now worth $74 billion Taking a trip this summer? Beware. These travel scams are now turbocharged by AI Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models AI info visualization -- click on anything for more cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more. wander 'The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.' Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making? Hell Grind trailer Martin Scorsese accused of 'throwing artists under bus' with AI storyboards Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan Guest: Robert Tercek Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: XBOW.com webroot.com/twit gusto.com/machines

Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh in? The Pope's AI encyclical: technology, ethics, and human dignity Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car Even if you hate AI, you will use Google AI Search There's a new way to create Google Docs with your voice White House, Anthropic near deal for spy agencies to use AI Claude Mythos preview uncovers 10,000+ zero-day vulnerabilities in Project Glasswing Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public Chinese AI startup DeepSeek slashes price of flagship model Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes ElevenLabs's new music generation model can switch genres mid-track David Sacks's 11th-hour plea led to Trump's backtrack on AI executive order I'm tired of talking to AI In Memoriam: Don Newhouse Picks of the Week: KMart Muzak Infinite Jeffs isaiprofitable.com Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Rick Sammon Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 zscaler.com/security

Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security. Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo (21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it. Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts' AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs The last six months in LLMs in five minutes Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing 'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism The great digital media valuation collapse Sperm racing Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Frederic Rivain Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit monarch.com with code IM zscaler.com/security XBOW.com

British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass. Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19 Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw Students boo AI at commencement: video Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying' (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools The new Wild West of AI kids' toys Internet Archive Switzerland Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out. The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models' Hallucinopedia Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996' Sand shortage Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit XBOW.com threatlocker.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT preview.modulate.ai zscaler.com/security outsystems.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: monarch.com with code IM bitwarden.com/twit preview.modulate.ai spaceship.com/twit