IM 844: Poob Has It For You - Spiky Superintelligence vs. Generality
Is today's AI stuck as a "spiky superintelligence," brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers trading theories, strong opinions, and the next big risks on the path to real AGI.
Why "Everyone Dies" Gets AGI All Wrong
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Google's First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey
Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different
Sam Altman shuts down question about how OpenAI can commit to spending $1.4 trillion while earning billions: 'Enough'
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Perplexity's new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do
Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight
Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
Dictionary.com names 6-7 as 2025's word of the year
Tech companies don't care that students use their AI agents to cheat
The Morning After: Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan's show
The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
TikTok announces its first awards show in the US
Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028
American Museum of Tort Law
Dog Chapel - Dog Mountain
Nicvember masterlist
Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jeremy Berman
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Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.
Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn
Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs
OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic
Microsoft's Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
A Definition of AGI
OpenAI Finalizes Corporate Restructuring, Gives Microsoft 27% Stake and Technology Access Until 2032 - Slashdot
This mom's son was asking Tesla's Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
Nvidia Becomes World's First $5 Trillion Company - Slashdot
Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years
How Realistic is OpenAI's 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?
Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny
Zenni's Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
Alphabet earnings
Meta earnings
You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Actually Is
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
Casio's Fluffy AI Robot Squeaked Its Way Into My Heart
For the sake of the show, I will suffer this torture -jj
Machine Olfaction and Embedded AI Are Shaping the New Global Sensing Industry
A silly little photoshoot with your friends
Bugonia
Celebrating 25 years of Google Ads
The Data Is In: The Washington Post Can't Replace Its "TikTok Guy"
Peak screen?
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Dr. Alan Cowen
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IM 842: None Pizza Left Beef - AI On the Edge
Is the future of artificial intelligence running on your desk instead of in massive data centers? This episode breaks down how Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's new ZGX Nano could let anyone fine-tune jaw-dropping language models at home—and why privacy, cost, and control are suddenly up for grabs.
Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Leo... AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA
Is Andrej Karpathy Right About Overhyped AI?
Happy 18th Birthday to None Pizza Left Beef
Originality.ai
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mike Elgan
Guests: Joey de Villa and Andrew Hawthorn
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IM 841: Dust and Deli Meat - Open Source AI Revolution
Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.
TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
(20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have" / X
The AI water issue is fake
California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
Walmart Announces It Will Sell Products Through ChatGPT's Instant Checkout
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead
AI is changing how we quantify pain
Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows
Social media must warn users of 'profound' health risks under new California law
Google will let friends help you recover an account
AI content on the net
AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet
Karpathy tweet
Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI
Sal Khan is the new TED
You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos.
Paper: Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI
A Twitch streamer gave birth live, with Twitch's CEO in the chat
DirecTV will soon bring AI ads to your screensaver
Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp?
Inherently funny word
Boah, Bahn!
A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me?
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Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle
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IM 840: Pudding Forks - Industrial Bubble or Tech Boom?
From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.
No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot
Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems
Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report
Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries
America is now one big bet on AI
The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI
Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year
Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy
A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls
Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits
Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry
CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Have we passed peak social media?
As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain
OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars
Google CodeMender
Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
Our friend Glenn
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