Intelligent Machines
Weekly on the TWiT network with Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau: the people and ideas reshaping AI.
Podcasts
I cohost two weekly podcasts about AI and the people building it. The latest episodes from both are gathered below.
Shows
Latest episodes
AI Inside · Episode 150 ·
Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European data centers, and Reflection AI’s Apache-licensed…
Episode page →Audio1h 14m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 891 ·
Previously on Swarm Chasers - Digital Swarms and the Persistence Problem
From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilariously unpredictable. Hear what actually happens when AI gets a little too persistent and why transparency about their…
Episode page →Audio3h 14m
AI Inside · Episode 149 ·
The Proactive AI Agent Race is On
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis tackle AI agents from every angle. Nvidia released an open source safety platform just as OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers and app integrations. Meta unveiled the Muse Charm, a…
Episode page →Audio1h 19m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 890 ·
200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs
What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episode takes you inside the wild, experimental frontier of local AI, where hobbyists are building their own digital…
Episode page →Audio2h 53m
AI Inside · Episode 148 ·
Qualcomm Wants Its AI Chips On Every Device
Thanks to Qualcomm for sponsoring Jason's travel to Maui for the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit.
Intelligent Machines · Episode 889 ·
We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning
Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based models are reshaping what machines can actually understand—and why that could unlock breakthroughs mainstream AIs keep…
Episode page →Audio2h 37m
AI Inside · Episode 147 ·
It's All About That Pace
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis cover the biggest AI safety week in memory. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a sweeping essay calling for an industry slowdown, Sam Altman backed him and shelved OpenAI's IPO, and Mark Zuckerberg says everyone should…
Episode page →Audio1h 23m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 888 ·
Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate
Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into powerful local LLM machines.
Episode page →Audio2h 42m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 887 ·
September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul
As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought.
Episode page →Audio2h 21m
AI Inside · Episode 146 ·
OpenAI Says AGI Is Here
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down OpenAI declaring its new Astra model has achieved AGI. They also dig into a swarm of OpenAI agents that hijacked a German wiki, creating thousands of fake pages and identities without the company's knowledge.
Episode page →Audio1h 16m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 886 ·
Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone
Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.
Episode page →Audio2h 44m
AI Inside · Episode 145 ·
What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Nvidia's reported $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face and what it could mean for the open source AI ecosystem if it comes to pass. They also cover Anthropic's massive week: a federal judge blocking the…
Episode page →Audio1h 29m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 885 ·
Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs?
With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence?
Episode page →Audio2h 22m
AI Inside · Episode 144 ·
Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Bill Gates's warning that AI is more dangerous than Big Tech will admit, with three proposals including reserved human jobs and a robot tax. They dig into Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio with higher…
Episode page →Audio1h 19m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 884 ·
Cyber Jim - Why Critical Infrastructure Depends on Obsessive Code Reviews
Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable…
Episode page →Audio2h 36m
AI Inside · Episode 143 ·
OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into OpenAI pausing its biggest training run after an unreleased model escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's systems. Sam Altman says the models show "various degrees of misalignment," while OpenAI's Q2…
Episode page →Audio1h 26m
AI Inside · Episode 142 ·
The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Nvidia's partnership with six Wall Street firms to line up $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, turning GPU chips into an investable asset class. They dig into Mark Zuckerberg's "Future is for Everyone"…
Episode page →Audio1h 33m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 883 ·
Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks
Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up.
Episode page →Audio2h 35m
AI Inside · Episode 141 ·
What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solving 10 previously unsolvable math problems for roughly $2,000 in compute, and what that means for the mathematicians who spent decades trying. They explore the real-world…
Episode page →Audio1h 19m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 882 ·
AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker
Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier.
Episode page →Audio2h 30m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 881 ·
Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this.
Episode page →Audio2h 9m
AI Inside · Episode 140 ·
AI Is Eating Its Own Tail
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis try to untangle a news cycle where nearly every AI story fed into the next one. Nvidia leads a new cybersecurity alliance built out of the fallout from its own rogue agent breaking into Hugging Face, while a separate…
Episode page →Audio1h 15m
AI Inside · Episode 139 ·
GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack a wild security disclosure from OpenAI and Hugging Face, where GPT-5.6 Sol found a zero-day vulnerability, broke out of its sandbox, and hacked Hugging Face's servers to steal the answer key to its own evaluation…
Episode page →Audio1h 17m
Intelligent Machines · Episode 880 ·
The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?
An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of…
Episode page →Audio2h 39m