IM 835: Glitch Lord - Inside OpenAI's Secret Struggles and the 'Empire of AI' With Karen Hao
Go behind the curtain at OpenAI as bestselling author Karen Hao shares stories of infighting, ego, and shifting agendas. Find out why even OpenAI's security had her face on alert during her investigation.
Karen Hao reveals OpenAI's secretive culture and early ambitions
OpenAI's shifting leadership and transparency: from nonprofit roots to Big Tech power
Defining AGI: moving goalposts, internal rifts, and philosophy debates
OpenAI's founders dissected: Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever's styles and motives
Critiquing the AI industry's resource grabs and "AI imperialism"
How commercialization narrowed AI research and the dominance of transformers
China's AI threat as Silicon Valley's favorite justification, debunked
Karen Hao details reporting process and boardroom chaos at OpenAI
GPT-5 skepticism: raised expectations, lackluster reality, and demo fatigue
Karen Hao's bottom line: AI's current trajectory isn't inevitable — pushback is needed
Harper Reed shares vibe coding workflows using Claude Code
AI commoditization—why all major models start to feel the same
Western vs. Chinese open-source models and global AI power shifts
Google antitrust ruling: AI's rise dissolves traditional search monopoly
"Algorithm movies" spark debate over art, entertainment, and AI's creative impact
Meta's AI talent grab backfires amid exits and cash-fueled drama
Anthropic's "historic" author settlement likely cements fair use for AI training
DIY facial recognition: Citizen activists unmask ICE using AI tools
Picks: Byte Magazine's 50th, AI werewolf games, Berghain bouncer AI test, and arthouse film
"Perfect Days"
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Co-Host: Harper Reed
Guest: Karen Hao
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IM 834: Gewgaw - Google's 'Nano Banana' Model
Interview with M.G. Siegler.
Google improves Gemini AI image editing with 'Nano Banana' model.
THIS is why large language models can understand the world.
Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs.
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5.
Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year.
We must build AI for people; not to be a person.
AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization.
AI robots are helping South Korea's seniors feel less alone.
College student's "time travel" AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history.
Forget Uber Eats—Chipotle's latest delivery option might shock you.
There are two types of dishwasher people.
Would you go on a tour of your local Amazon warehouse?
Perplexity has cooked up a new way to pay publishers for their content.
Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated 'freelancer'.
The South Slope Derby.
Checking in on the Internet Roadtrip.
TikTok.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: M.G. Siegler
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IM 833: The Most Popular S3 Bucket Ever - AI Slop, Clankers, and Shrimp
AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble
Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?
Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.
2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
So ... is AI writing any good?
Project Indigo
We used AI to analyse three cities. It's true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Rich Skrenta
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IM 832: Surrounded by Zuck - Inside Google Gemini
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it.
Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons
David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a "rapid take-off" to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we" / X
A taxonomy of hallucinations (see table 2)
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's 'Nearly Unusable' for Enterprise
Medicare will test using AI to help decide whether patients get coverage — which could delay or deny care, critics warn
Podcasting's 'Serial' Era Ends as Video Takes Over
Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network
What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Two-mile suspension bridge
Will Giz allow the Skee-ballers to make this their next outing?
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Tulsee Doshi
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IM 831: 9 Seconds of Google - Holy Widgets
Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)
Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop
Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data
Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry
AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.
When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....
AI vegans
Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code
Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of
Good guy humpback whales
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Guest: Vlad Prelovac
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