Episodes

  • IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul
    May 21 2026

    Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.

    • Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter
    • Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic Into Its First Profitable Quarter
    • SpaceX Filing Starts Countdown to Massive IPO
    • Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
    • Google's Gemini Spark is an agentic AI assistant - Engadget
    • Anthropic's Co-Founder to Launch Encyclical on AI With Pope Leo
    • (21) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time." / X
    • Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.
    • Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI's Products in Latest Shakeup
    • Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts' Featuring Chats Between Two Robot 'Co-Hosts'
    • AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers
    • Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute
    • We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs
    • The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
    • Lake Tahoe Power Crisis: How AI Data Centers Are Cutting Power to 50,000 Residents
    • What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI? The coolest art social experiment I've seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS
    • Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
    • OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger's tokenmaxxing
    • 'Obvious markers of AI': doubts raised over winner of short story prize
    • Man drives Cybertruck into Grapevine Lake
    • Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything
    • Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
    • The great digital media valuation collapse
    • Sperm racing

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Frederic Rivain

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    2 hrs and 54 mins
  • IM 870: Meet Me In Alaska - Are AI Content Filters Changing What We Read?
    May 14 2026

    British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

    • Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
    • Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
    • Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
    • Students boo AI at commencement: video
    • Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
    • (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
    • NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
    • Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
    • Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
    • Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
    • VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
    • Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
    • Anthropic says Claude's blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
    • Anthropic's C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
    • Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
    • The new Wild West of AI kids' toys
    • Internet Archive Switzerland
    • Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
    • Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
    • The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
    • AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
    • Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
    • Hallucinopedia
    • Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the 'Class of 1996'
    • Sand shortage

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Chris Stokel-Walker

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    2 hrs and 44 mins
  • IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge
    May 7 2026

    Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.

    • White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
    • Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models
    • Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
    • OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji
    • Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
    • Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi
    • We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.
    • When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
    • I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.
    • Say Hello to the Internet of AI
    • The greatest capital misallocation in history?
    • AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
    • China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
    • Academy announces major overhaul to rules
    • AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses
    • The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
    • Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
    • As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'
    • Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
    • California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
    • Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
    • 'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art
    • Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'
    • He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
    • Empty Screenings
    • Furwall by Ollie Wagner
    • DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
    • So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet
    • The Python Hunt
    • News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content
    • Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive
    • Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page
    • Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Troy Hunt

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    2 hrs and 29 mins
  • IM 868: Happy Hamburgers Towing Timmy To The Sea - Can You Really Own Your AI?
    Apr 30 2026

    Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tackles why owning your own AI hardware matters more than ever—and what's at risk if we don't.

    • Alphabet tops Q1 estimates on strong Google Cloud growth
    • Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?
    • OpenAI Releases 'Spud' GPT-5.5 Model
    • OpenAI Breaks Free From Exclusive AI Pact With Microsoft
    • Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for 'any lawful government purpose'
    • Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared
    • OpenAI Set to Redefine Smartphones; MediaTek, Qualcomm & Luxshare Key to Its AI Agent Phone
    • Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race - Fast Company
    • Australia unveils a 2.25% levy on Meta, Google, and TikTok
    • The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
    • Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
    • Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
    • Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database
    • OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
    • Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview
    • Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
    • The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
    • Generative AI vegetarianism
    • To buy this Bay Area home, you'll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch
    • * Chloe vs. History
    • Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public | TechCrunch
    • noscroll
    • Felvidek
    • Amazon's AI product podcasts
    • 64″D Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber
    • Timmy's rescue

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Nirav Patel

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    2 hrs and 37 mins
  • IM 867: The Ketchup Effect - The Lines Are Too Damn Long
    Apr 23 2026

    Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens.

    • CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning
    • Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
    • Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
    • Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands
    • News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing)
    • Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
    • Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
    • Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell
    • Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership
    • SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
    • Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI
    • Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
    • Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding
    • Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services
    • Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances
    • This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts
    • Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI
    • Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War
    • AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too
    • Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less
    • New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer
    • We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
    • This pasta sauce wants to record your family
    • LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
    • Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
    • Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison
    • Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
    • AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
    • Depths of Wikipedia
    • GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.
    • Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
    • Jeff's Gemini happy ending
    • The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost

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    2 hrs and 46 mins
  • IM 866: I'm Bonkers for Yonkers - Is Coding Dead?
    Apr 16 2026

    When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own hands—and why the next wave of software might feel more like a home-cooked meal.

    • Sam Altman's Blog About Firebombing
    • OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
    • Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
    • Federal agencies skirt Trump's Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model
    • Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities | AISI Work
    • OpenAI rips Anthropic, distances itself from Microsoft
    • The tiny disclosure at the bottom of OpenAI's tax day post is all you need to read
    • Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
    • Federal Court Denies Anthropic's Motion to Lift 'Supply Chain Risk' Label
    • Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude's Spiritual Development
    • Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch
    • Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators
    • Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings
    • Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable 'Skills'
    • Adobe's new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
    • After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
    • Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
    • 'The Audacity' Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
    • AI influencers are 'everywhere' at Coachella
    • I don't see images in my head. Can training give me a mind's eye?
    • Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI as AI drug discovery hopes mount
    • OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
    • Ukraine captures enemy Russian position using only robots, no humans: 'The future is already on the front line'
    • I/O schedule
    • Haunted Paper Toys
    • Thousands of rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive -- listen now
    • DNS & Network Tools — Mr.DNS
    • TRAIN JAZZ
    • The hottest college major hit a wall. What happened?

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Craig Mod

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    2 hrs and 29 mins
  • IM 865: Mythic - Too Dangerous to Release?
    Apr 9 2026

    A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this technology escapes the lab.

    • Claude Mythos Preview System Card - Claude Mythos Preview System Card.pdf
    • Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
    • Meta Employees Vie for AI 'Token Legend' Status
    • Meta releases new model for Social Media "Muse Spark"
    • Why OpenAI's Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy
    • How Accurate Are Google's A.I. Overviews?
    • Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
    • Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds
    • How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
    • The back story behind the first "$1.8 Billion" dollar "AI Company"
    • It's Called Silicon Sampling, and It's Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling
    • Cloudflare builds what it calls the successor to WordPress
    • JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 75% of tokens by talking like caveman
    • Mvidia
    • Old NYC records
    • Basketball is.... good?
    • QVC, HSN cable networks face Chapter 11, insolvency
    • AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Daniel Miessler

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    2 hrs and 27 mins
  • IM 864: And Artemis Too - Journalism In The Age Of AI
    Apr 2 2026

    What happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find out how Every is challenging the boundaries between tech and culture and why even seasoned journalists are wrestling with these tools.

    • Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know
    • (Il)Legal Python Port
    • Claude Code Unpacked
    • Spinner Verbs
    • RANK SPECULATION: Capybara cost - AI haves and have nots. And whither spud?
    • Another supply chain attack on NPM
    • OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors
    • SpaceX Has Filed Confidentially for IPO Ahead of AI Rivals
    • Gmail rolling out AI Inbox beta for AI Ultra subscribers
    • You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago
    • Bluesky's new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account other than J.D. Vance
    • EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment
    • California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state
    • Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda
    • 15% of Americans say they'd be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll
    • More Than Half of US Says AI Likely to Harm Them, Poll Finds
    • The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
    • 'Most People Don't Enjoy Their Jobs:' Perplexity CEO Says AI Layoffs Are Chance To Launch AI-Powered Ventures
    • Biggest AI conference traps researchers, presuming AI as cheating
    • An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
    • Obsolete Sounds
    • The oldest job in journalism: New York Post 'runners' defy AI
    • A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

    Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

    Guest: Kate Lee

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    2 hrs and 25 mins