Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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 attacked 3 real companies
• Altman says...

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'
• AI arms race in line for a reck...

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 Jacobian conjecture
• Quoting Sam Al...

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/
• Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it ...

Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it's not always for the better.

• OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
• Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
• OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 perce...

Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.

• Fable is Back!
• Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".
• China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
• Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground...

Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators.

• Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO
• The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time
• N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. ...

The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovation.

• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense
• Anthropic CEO says government should block dangerous AI
• The Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
• (21) Pete Hegseth on X...

Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The future isn't just smarter models, but everyday tech that learns exactly how you work.

• Hermes AI agent's launch, mass adoption, and personalized capabilities
• Open source vs. proprietary AI: model access, privacy, and funding hurdles
• Apple's next-gen Siri and agentic platfor...