Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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.

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New episodes every Wednesday.

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From AI-generated Halloween scares to personal assistants that just won't quit, the age of at-home intelligence is here. But with each new feature, your privacy, security, and digital autonomy hang in the balance. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Meta's Muse AI agent hits 10.9 million downloads as ChatGPT slides 25% Released This Week : Flux 3 Image Klein (Open Weights) "Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date" Video on the DSX Pod starting at 30:40 What if we've misunderstood how AI thinks? First large‑scale agentic cyberattack on OpenCode AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs German Court Rules Google Earth is "Spying" on People by Publishing Aerial Photos of Their Homes Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy Anthropic S-1 Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner…

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IM 893: It All Comes Back to Cats - From Academic Papers to 1.2 Million Startup Ideas

From AI-generated Halloween scares to personal assistants that just won't quit, the age of at-home intelligence is here. But with each new feature, your privacy, security, and digital autonomy hang in the balance. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Meta's Muse AI agent hits 10.9 million downloads as ChatGPT slides 25% Released This Week : Flux 3 Image Klein (Open Weights) "Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date" Video on the DSX Pod starting at 30:40 What if we've misunderstood how AI thinks? First large‑scale agentic cyberattack on OpenCode AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs German Court Rules Google Earth is "Spying" on People by Publishing Aerial Photos of Their Homes Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy Anthropic S-1 Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner…

21 Οκτ 2026
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IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution

GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next. Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports Muse Wonder OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone…

14 Οκτ 2026
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IM 891: Previously on Swarm Chasers - Digital Swarms and the Persistence Problem

From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their actions matters more than ever. AMistral CEO interview (use Translate) Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet Profile of Mark Zuckerberg Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999 Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China Google announces SynthID Detector Fortune headline: "I…

07 Οκτ 2026
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IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs

What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital workforces from scratch. DevDay 2026 Recap Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox "I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr Religious Scholars…

30 Σεπ 2026
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IM 889: We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning

Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep missing. Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety MetaConnect on during the show Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series Google CC I'm Upping My P(Doom) Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy On 'Cupertino,' Creators of the 'The Good Wife' Go to Silicon Valley Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Patrick Hillmann 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…

23 Σεπ 2026