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The 21st Century began with the rise of the Internet and social media. The next decade will mark the rise of the Intelligent Machines. AI will inhabit all our devices from cars and appliances to smart phones and robots. The Intelligent Machines podcast explores the most exciting revolution humanity has ever seen, filled with promise and peril. More than ever we need to understand what these new devices will bring to our lives and how to make best use of them as the 21st century unfolds. On this show you'll meet the AI pioneers, inventors, and innovators who are about to disrupt every aspect of modern life. You'll learn what's real and what's hype, and you'll come away with a deep understanding of the intelligent future that awaits us all.

Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.

This Week in Google (Audio)

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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TWiG 798: Great for Soup! - Veo, Willow, The Onion & Infowars

• 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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TWiG 799: What's A Basketball? - 1-800-CHATGPT, TPLink, TikTok Ban

• 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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TWiG 800: The Best of 2024 - Tree Pruning 101, Cow Magnets, The Skin

• 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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TWiG 801: Human Beans - Meta Stops Fact-Checking, Public Domain 2025

• 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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TWiG 802: A Sycophant in Your Pocket - Supreme Court Briefs, Leo's New AI Toys

• "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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TWiG 803: Dadscrolling - Stargate, SkyTok, Chromebook Facial Control

• 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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TWiG 804: Big Potato - Death Roulette, Influencer Voice, HillmanTok

• 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 research 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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IM 805: Doomers, Gloomers, Bloomers, and Zoomers - Zack Kass Interview, DeepSeek Hype, EU AI Act

• Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
 
 • Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy to lead the CFTC
 
 • Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the "primary device for YouTube viewing in the US", indicating YouTube is "the new TV"
 
 • Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
 
 • FYI related: Court Unplugs AI Fair Use Defense, But Context Is Key
 
 • "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right": Meta emails unsealed
 
 • How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term
 
 • Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"
 
 • The Strategy Behind Musk's $97 Billion Bid for OpenAI
 
 • 'Doomers' Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.
 
 • 25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods - The New York Times
 
 • WikiTok
 
 • BuzzFeed wants to fight AI-driven social media with a platform of its own
 
 • Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany

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Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent
 

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TWiG 799: What's A Basketball? - 1-800-CHATGPT, TPLink, TikTok Ban

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