Intelligent Machines (Video)

• Interview with Zack Kass, Former GTM for Open AI
• Why you can deep-six the DeepSeek hype
• Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
• OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to ChatGPT interactions
• AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here's What I've Learned.
• Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
• Hugging Face researchers aim to build an 'open' version of OpenAI's deep researh tool
• Anthropic makes 'jailbreak' advance to stop AI models producing harmful results
• WSJ: The Manhattan Project Was Secret. Should America's AI Work Be Too?
• EU AI Act: Ban on certain AI practices and requirements for AI literacy come into effect
• Cathy Gellis: When It's Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too
• a16z slides on AI and voice
• Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on Astra
• Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure' if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows
• The Salvadoran Mega-Prison Offering to Take America's Worst Criminals
• Hilarious analyst on Tesla
• How the DJI Flip uses AI
• Marketers will have to market to AI agents
• AI systems could be 'caused to suffer' if consciousness achieved, says research

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Zack Kass

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• Leo's AI Toys
• DeepSeek
• How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
• Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
• 17th Century Death Roulette ☠️
• Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
• 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
• The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world
• Paris' new TV
• Scoldy Mastodon
• Pluralistic: It's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
• Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok
• Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.
• Why doesn't Siri know what it doesn't know?
• New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI
• Technological puritanism
• All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
• By Paris: Before Google's $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
• The mayor of Merrymac

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• "Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles
• Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory
• What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't
• Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law
• SkyTok, BlueSky's TikTok, made with Surf on ActivityPub
• The Second Trump Presidency, Brought to You by YouTubers
• Google will let you control your Chromebook with your face
• Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It might become a $200 million debacle
• Nokia's reaction to the iPhone
• The Ankler launches standalone trade publication on the creator economy
• Bassinet backlash reflects debate over adding fees to connected devices
• Elon Musk admits cheating at video games, chat transcript appears to show
• The Whole World is Whining
• Netflix's UK Audience Reach Overtook BBC1 For The First Time Last Year
• Genrevision podcast

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Justice Kagan Acknowledges Bluesky, And Other Notes From The TikTok Oral Argument
• Alito and Playboy
• A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon
• Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
• Free our feeds fundraising
• The people should own the town square
• Lemley's post
• Google's 'Daily Listen' lab is a personalized podcast based on your Discover feed
• Leo's AI toys
• She Is in Love With ChatGPT
• Jawboning In Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated By The DMCA
• Personalized voice recordings by Elwood "You've got mail!" Edwards
• American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al
• Physicists figure out the perfect Cacio e Pepe recipe
• Cursormania!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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• Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a "community notes" system similar to X
• (30+) kottke.org: "oh s**t new logo just dropped"
• Masnick: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta's New Content Moderation Policies
• Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down
• I watched the Nvidia keynote; can summarize -jj
• The Bitter Lesson
• Hank Green's Cripslock Test for AGI
• Public Domain Day 2025
• CES 2025
• New AI powered Samsung refrigerators will allow direct grocery ordering with Instacart
• Gemini is taking over Google TV - in a good way
• Google's AI Help Me Read feature
• Deepseek seems to be a big deal: Chinese model, cheaper to train
• Altman's latest gospel
• Choose your Silicon Valley Thinkbro
• Nicvember Post Mortum
• The Habermas Machine: AI mediating disagreements
• VPN Demand Surge in Florida after Adult Sites Age Restriction Kicks In

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet
• Paris reveals her passion for pruning trees in NY
• Molly White's first appearance, stupid Wikipedia edit wars
• Ed Zitron's first appearance, elon's shady non-profits
• NYC apartment with a podcast studio
• What are cow magnets?
• Paris and Cathy, tab hoarders
• Paris digs into the source of the human cells used in a robotics experiment
• Craig stops by to talk about pancakes and his philanthopy
• Leo's audition for Megalopolis
• AI Genereated podcast of Paris' stories
• Paris getting her license to prune trees in NY

Host: Leo Laporte

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• Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban
• U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes
• Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack
• YouTube TV increases price by $10 a month starting in January
• YouTube's year of the livingroom
• WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction
• Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024
• NotebookLM gets a new look, audio interactivity and a premium version
• 1-800-ChatGPT
• Roose celebritizes Claude
• The weirdest job in AI
• Nvidia's $249 Jetson Nano supercomputer
• The Trouble With Searching Google for 'the Best'
• Joanna Stern book all about her
• Feeling at home? New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics
• Masnick: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won't Stop Online Misinformation
• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
• Seat patterns from public transports all around the world
• A compendium of transit tickets.
• Top uses of Claude (by country)
• Always Go To The Funeral

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Google introduces its new generative AI video model, Veo. TikTok is fighting back, seeking to pause the US ban pending a review from the Supreme Court. A judge is currently blocking the sale of Infowars to The Onion. And Leo and Jeff help Pars decide on the best gifts for a white elephant party.

• Google's new generative AI video model is now available.
• Google introduces A.I. agent that aces 15-day weather forecasts.
• Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip.
• Google is suing a federal regulator over supervision of its payment division.
• Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch.
• TikTok seeks to pause US ban pending Supreme Court review.
• Frank McCourt's Project Liberty advances bid for TikTok.
• The Supreme Court must intervene in the TikTok case.
• Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup.
• Are those drones over New Jersey? Sightings mount, and still no answers.
• Introducing Reddit answers.
• Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review.
• Instagram rolls out 'trial reels' that aren't shown to a creator's followers.
• Infowars sale to The Onion rejected by Federal bankruptcy judge.
• Debanking (and Debunking?)
• YouTube's new auto-dubbing feature is now available for knowledge-focused content.
• The AI We Deserve.
• New KOSA, same as old KOSA, but now with Elon's ignorant endorsement.
• 404 Media objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's subpoena to access our reporting.
• Casey Newton: The phony comforts of AI skepticism.
• WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules.
• Bluesky stats!
• Advertising is stupid. AI is stupid. The singularity is never.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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Amazon is being sued over slow deliveries to lower-incomer areas. What is the Oxford University's 2024 word of the year? Canada's antitrust watchdog is suing Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in advertising. And Leo tries not to spend too long on the Google Changelog items.

• 'Hawk tuah' girl Haliey Welch launches crypto memecoin—but insists it's not a cash grab.
• Amazon sued over slow deliveries to low-income areas.
• Bluesky COO rejects idea upstart social app is 'left-leaning'.
• Australia bans social media for everyone under 16.
• What is Brain rot, the Oxford University 2024 word of the year?
• Intel stock wavers on CEO Pat Gelsinger's departure.
• FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation that Trump administration must carry on or drop.
• Canada's antitrust watchdog sues Google alleging anti-competitive conduct in advertising.
• FTC changes its telemarketing rules to cover growing 'tech support scam' calls.
• Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say.
• U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls.
• No one is talking about ChatGPT anymore.
• Romans and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb's planned two-night Colosseum experience for up to 32 guests in May 2025, saying it will demean a cultural treasure.
• Google Chat rolling out audio 'Huddles' powered by Meet.
• Google Maps app showing incident reports from Waze.
• Gemini app rolling out 'Make calls and send message without unlocking'.
• Google Wallet for Wear OS adding corporate badges, campus IDs, and more.
• Pixel 6-9 now lets you check device temperature after 'Troubleshooting' update.
• Google's video generator comes to more customers.
• Google's beefing up Android app security, but not everyone's going to be happy.
• Google Photos rolling out 'Undo device backup' setting.
• Mikah's TATOFY for Magic Mouse 2 Grip
• Can the "Bookazine" save Magazines?
• Calculator Soup.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Mikah Sargent

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• Paris' stuffing recipe.
• Source: Google has canceled the Pixel Tablet 2, not the Tab 3.
• Meta gains steam in its push to make Apple, Google verify users' ages.
• A complex new age of face tech.
• Musk unleashes online army on federal workers. 'A tough way to find out she's losing her job.'
• Elon Musk admits X is making it harder for people to read news.
• Elon Musk's Twitter backers gain windfall from xAI deal.
• Google's new chess game lets you customize pieces with AI.
• Google's Black Friday sale features record low prices on Pixel, Nest, and more.
• Here's the full list of Gemini extensions and what they can do.
• Google's iOS app now injects links on third-party websites that go back to Search.
• Google Maps now does a better job of highlighting stairs.
• Holding Space for Defying Gravity.
• What Leo, Paris, and Jeff are thankful for with the Internet.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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