Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.

• Interview with Steven Levy
• Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
• Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
• OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
• Can We Afford AI?
• Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies
• China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train
• Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses
• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
• Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research
• Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever
• * "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community
• ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume
• The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?
• Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio
• The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models
• More! Shrimp!
• Wounded robots
• Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Levy

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With AI hype everywhere, are we confusing slick projections and sci-fi clichés for real progress? This episode exposes the flawed thinking behind tech's boldest predictions and dives into what your future with "intelligent machines" might actually look like—waffles and all.

• Interview with Nick Foster
• AI's $344 Billion 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile
• Yann LeCun's mondo preso
• Elon Musk's xAI Lays Off 500 Data Annotation Workers
• Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday
• The OpenAI paper on usage
• Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
• ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification
• Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope
• A Maslow-Inspired Hierarchy of Engagement with AI Model
• I Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
• How an AI Giant Became Obsessed With an Albino Alligator
• Amazon invests over $1 billion to raise employee pay, lower healthcare costs
• The Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
• Rest of World: A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over
• How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
• Roadwarden
• David Lynch's quirky house

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nick Foster

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AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts."

• Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
• Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle
• AI Watchdog
• At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
• Most Scraped Websites of 2025
• AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.
• Alterego
• I Hate My Friend
• R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
• AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot
• Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?
• OpenAI's post on the paper
• Gina Trappani starts a new blog
• Schnitzel press
• NFL Debut on YouTube Draws 17.3 Million
• Set a two TikTok toilet limit to reduce haemorrhoid risk, doctors advise"

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Co-Host: Harper Reed

Guests: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

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