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.
Episodes
IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate
Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.
Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
A Code of Conduct for Humanist
IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul
As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought.
Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears
An Alien Mind
Muse - Your Personal AI Agent
Hikers resc
IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone
Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.
Judge Rules on Google Ads Case
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
Brief independent investigation of agents
IM 885: Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs?
With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?
(538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production ver
IM 884: Cyber Jim - Why Critical Infrastructure Depends on Obsessive Code Reviews
Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse.
Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter
(272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin f
IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks
Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.
How Claude marks AI-generated content
Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone
Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device
Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet
IM 882: AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker
Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attack
IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this.
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'
IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?
An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition.
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible
AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jac
IM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?
With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignty, and who they can trust. Explore why the next tech revolution might depend on which models stay truly open—and who gets to keep using them.
Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' Report with CTO Raffi Krikorian - https://stateofopensource.ai/
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