Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.

• Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
• Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
• OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
• AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending
• I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
• Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major
• Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent
• Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'
• AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
• The race to AGI-pill the pope
• Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci

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AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people?

• Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
• White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say
  Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device
• Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
• Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
• The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok
• The prof crashed
• I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
• Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich
• Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence
• AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing
• Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?
• A beautiful Nic Cage commercial
• This stuffing recipe
• How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m.
• 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons
• The Stahl House
• A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Emad Mostaque

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What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.

• Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
• Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
• Part 1: How I Found Out
• $1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand
• His announcement leaving Meta
• White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations
• Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'
• Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
• Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain
• AI love, actually
• Cat island
• road trip: liquidator's warehouse
• Gentype
• The Carpenter's Son...
• My excerpt from the Q&A
• Image of the paper

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jimmy Wales

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Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

• Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary
• OpenAI CFO Says Company Isn't Seeking Government Backstop, Clarifying Prior Comment
• Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine 'Right to Compute' Into Law - Montana Newsroom
• Sam Altman's Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups
• Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup
• Exclusive: US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up
• Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network - Slashdot
• 12 Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%
• The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner of the archiving site as part of a criminal investigation
• How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?
• What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids
• If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go
• LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior
• No. 10's synthetic voters
• Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow's NPCs: Non-Player Consumers
• Eric Schmidt: This Is No Way to Rule a Country
• My torture for you
• Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
• 'A frightening development': How AI-Articles are flooding the internet with fake news
• Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
• YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week
• How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
• Tort Law museum visit
• Bread and Puppet Museum
• We're famous in Germany
• Brand new bridge

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

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Is today's AI stuck as a "spiky superintelligence," brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers trading theories, strong opinions, and the next big risks on the path to real AGI.

• Why "Everyone Dies" Gets AGI All Wrong
• The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
• Google's First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey
• Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different
• Sam Altman shuts down question about how OpenAI can commit to spending $1.4 trillion while earning billions: 'Enough'
• How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
• Perplexity's new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
• Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do
• Amazon and Perplexity have kicked off the great AI web browser fight
• Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane
• Dictionary.com names 6-7 as 2025's word of the year
• Tech companies don't care that students use their AI agents to cheat
• The Morning After: Musk talks flying Teslas on Joe Rogan's show
• The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden
• TikTok announces its first awards show in the US
• Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
• Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028
• American Museum of Tort Law
• Dog Chapel - Dog Mountain
• Nicvember masterlist
• Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeremy Berman

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Can an AI truly care about your feelings—or is emotional intelligence in machines just the most sophisticated form of manipulation? Dr. Alan Cowen of Hume AI joins the crew to unpack the promise and peril of emotionally adept bots, even as they're quietly shaping how we connect, seek help, and parent in the digital age.

• Virtual Try On Free Online - AI Clothes Changer | i-TryOn
• Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs
• OpenAI Moves to Generate AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
• Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic
• Microsoft's Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
• Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
• A Definition of AGI
  OpenAI Finalizes Corporate Restructuring, Gives Microsoft 27% Stake and Technology Access Until 2032 - Slashdot
• This mom's son was asking Tesla's Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
• Nvidia Becomes World's First $5 Trillion Company - Slashdot
• Paris Hilton Has Been Training Her AI for Years
• How Realistic is OpenAI's 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?
• Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny
• Zenni's Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
• Alphabet earnings
• Meta earnings
• You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Actually Is
• Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points
• AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for roughly $1.5B
• Casio's Fluffy AI Robot Squeaked Its Way Into My Heart
• For the sake of the show, I will suffer this torture -jj
• Machine Olfaction and Embedded AI Are Shaping the New Global Sensing Industry
• A silly little photoshoot with your friends
• Bugonia
• Celebrating 25 years of Google Ads
• The Data Is In: The Washington Post Can't Replace Its "TikTok Guy"
• Peak screen?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Dr. Alan Cowen

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Is the future of artificial intelligence running on your desk instead of in massive data centers? This episode breaks down how Nvidia's Blackwell chip and HP's new ZGX Nano could let anyone fine-tune jaw-dropping language models at home—and why privacy, cost, and control are suddenly up for grabs.

• Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
• Leo... AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows
• The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
• OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA
• Is Andrej Karpathy Right About Overhyped AI?
• Happy 18th Birthday to None Pizza Left Beef
• Originality.ai

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mike Elgan

Guests: Joey de Villa and Andrew Hawthorn

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Can open-source AI models really be truly neutral, or are they just another conduit for hidden agendas? Hear how the founder of Nous Research is battling Silicon Valley giants to put ethical, user-controlled AI in everyone's hands.

• TOpinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
• AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families
• (20) Sam Altman on X: "We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have" / X
• The AI water issue is fake
• California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
• Walmart Announces It Will Sell Products Through ChatGPT's Instant Checkout
• Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead
• AI is changing how we quantify pain
• Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows
• Social media must warn users of 'profound' health risks under new California law
• Google will let friends help you recover an account
• AI content on the net
• AI writing hasn't overwhelmed the web yet
• Karpathy tweet
• Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI
• Sal Khan is the new TED
• You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
• Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos.
• Paper: Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
• THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI
• A Twitch streamer gave birth live, with Twitch's CEO in the chat
• DirecTV will soon bring AI ads to your screensaver
• Japan wants OpenAI to stop ripping off manga and anime
• What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp?
• Inherently funny word
• Boah, Bahn!
• A book is being marketed with mayo-scented ink. Jealous? Me?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jeffrey Quesnelle

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From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.

• No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
• ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
• OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
• Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot
• Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems
• Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report
• Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries
• America is now one big bet on AI
• The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI
• Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year
• Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy
• A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls
• Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits
• Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry
• CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?
• Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
• Have we passed peak social media?
• As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain
• OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars
• Google CodeMender
• Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
• Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
• Our friend Glenn

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.

• Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• It's time to prepare for AI personhood
• Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: "She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being"
• Link to the podslop podcasts
• California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law
• Sen. Mark Kelly's big plan for an AI future isn't ambitious enough
• ** DeepMind defines levels of AGI
• Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
• AI passed the hardest CFA test in minutes
• ChatGPT is now 20% of Walmart's referral traffic — while Amazon wards off AI shopping agents
• Amazon event live blog: we're here for new Echos, Kindles, and more
• Introducing ChatGPT Pulse | OpenAI
• Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant
• That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
• Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement
• It's official: Google says the Android and ChromeOS merger is coming 'next year'
• Blippo+
• Guardian sliders
• Ive's $4,800 lantern

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Raiza Martin

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