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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IM 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy - Personal Superintelligence?
Interview with Ian Krietzberg
Leo's shows off his new AI toys
Paris unveils her new desk setup
Personal Superintelligence
You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a joke you'll comprehend only with meticulous reading of it.
Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang
Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content
Tyler the Creator's No. 1 album overshadowed by 40-second AI-generated clip
The High-Schoolers Who Just Beat the World's Smartest AI Models
My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX
Zuckerberg Walks Back Open-Source AI Pledge, Citing Safety Risk
Chipotle's AI hiring tool is helping it find new workers 75% faster
Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong? I went to find out
TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show
This guy Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
JC makes wine
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Guest: Ian Krietzberg
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