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. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Wednesday.
Episodes
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 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
- Facin...
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: ...
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 ...
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 AI
- Countering misuse of A...
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 rescued after using Google Gemini fo...
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' behavior, reasoning and collab...
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 version Qwen3.8-Flash will be avail...
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 for an especially thoughtful exch...
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
- OpenAI's New Device Will Be Ho...
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...
AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on jobs, creativity, and who gets to tell the next generation of stories.
- AThis is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark
- Anthropic has officially filed to go public
- Google Seeks $80 Billion f...
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