Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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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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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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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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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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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