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Intelligent Machines (Video)Show Notes
Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on.
Fable is Back!
Alex Stamos: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".
China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product
Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design
Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack
Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls
Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms
SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device
* Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028
US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
* Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring
Political Bias in AI
Om Malik, 1966-2026
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
My post: California's squandered opportunity
Palantir coat
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan
Guest: Chris Potts
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