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Hosts: Louis Maresca, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau From AI-generated Halloween scares to personal assistants that just won't quit, the age of at-home intelligence is here. But with each new feature, your privacy, security, and digital autonomy hang in the balance. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Meta's Muse AI agent hits 10.9 million downloads as ChatGPT slides 25% Released This Week : Flux 3 Image Klein (Open Weights) "Introducing Muse Spark Open, The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date" Video on the DSX Pod starting at 30:40 What if we've misunderstood how AI thinks? First large‑scale agentic cyberattack on OpenCode AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs German Court Rules Google Earth is 'Spying' on People by Publishing Aerial Photos of Their Homes Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers Musk, Anthropic outline dueling approaches to AI-era philanthropy Anthropic S-1 Larry Ellison Went on Borrowing Spree to Bankroll His Son's Warner Bros. Bid ** Bill Gross's AI Tool Could Supercharge the Number of Startups Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests Craig Newmark AMA A new SubwayTakes star rises: Debbie How SubwayTakes's First Spinoff Star Outwitted Conan Some final words on Foursquare. Squad Sponsors: PaloAltoNetworks.com/Idira originhq.com/intelligentmachines bitwarden.com/twit outshift.com

GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next. Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports Muse Wonder OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir' Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent Cupertino Zuck's beer face Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Martin Woodward Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: originhq.com/intelligentmachines outshift.com helixsleep.com/machines

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 actions matters more than ever. AMistral CEO interview (use Translate) Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet Profile of Mark Zuckerberg Facing Memory Crunch, Nvidia Creates 64GB RTX Spark. It Still Costs $4,999 Someone 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim 'Forgiving' His Killer Is Played They're Known as Swarm Chasers—and They Spring Into Action When AI Goes Rogue AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they've done With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now Mistral Says Its New AI Model 'Le Chonk' Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China Google announces SynthID Detector Fortune headline: "I wrote The Future of Truth, and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes. I've chosen to fight back." Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. How A.I. Can Boost Democracy Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools Normal Tools Gina's Make Great Software Paul Theroux: True North Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Spencer Thompson Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: monarch.com with code IM framer.com/machines rippling.ai/machines gusto.com/machines

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 workforces from scratch. DevDay 2026 Recap Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic' AI risks in its own IPO filing GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities (7) Joe on X: "Its not just the f*cking sandbox" / X OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox "I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down" - Jensen Huang Nvidia's Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform: A Reference for Continuous In-Silicon Agent Monitoring Trump Responds to AI Backlash With 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No 'Existential Threat' From AI AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. A Kill Switch for AI? Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Yes Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs Inside McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own 'pain,' disturbing study finds Mac-mini-powered Cray Backpack Is the Fattest of the Fat Bears SF Currently This $60 rye bread is everything that's right and wrong with New York Popeyes finally gives diners what they want: A chicken biscuit sandwich Taco Bell finder Where to watch the Musk doc Jeff's book talk in Mass. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Mike Gannotti Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: framer.com/machines outsystems.com/twit PaloAltoNetworks.com/Idira

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 missing. Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Sol & Luna both launch today with lower costs Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day Two Google DeepMind AI Researchers Resign Over Safety MetaConnect on during the show Google fully details Googlebooks: $899+, October launch, & more Introducing MiMo-V2.6 series Google CC I'm Upping My P(Doom) Handshake AI Skills Studio/OpenAI Brian Johnsrud Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy On 'Cupertino,' Creators of the 'The Good Wife' Go to Silicon Valley Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Patrick Hillmann Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/twit scribe.how/machines originhq.com/intelligentmachines

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. Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown A Code of Conduct for Humanist AI Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle Introducing System One Models & Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet (4) nimensky e/acc on X: "ok who tf did this?! lul https://t.co/HpnXo0qKJ4" / X Fanttik Cafein 11 Portable Espresso Machine Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods' They Built a Shrine to Cable TV. Then Everyone Cut the Cord. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Guest: Lon Seidman Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: trustedtech.team/intelligent365 claude.ai/technology framer.com/machines bitwarden.com/twit

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. Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears An Alien Mind Muse - Your Personal AI Agent Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation's Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls on Trial in October Movie Pileup chat jimmy Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent Guest: Matthew Cassinelli Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: helixsleep.com/machines monarch.com with code IM scribe.how/machines horizon3.ai/intelligent

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. Judge Rules on Google Ads Case OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot? OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more (155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It? Unusual Suspects Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers Archived video CS majors down 8.4% or 53k Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit horizon3.ai/intelligent rippling.ai/machines

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? (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X Thomson Reuters built its own AI model on Chinese open-source tech to slash AI costs Now introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' content Three Takeaways From Bill Gates's 5,784-Word Warning on AI: 'There Is No Plan' (214) Breaking911 on X: "WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the "Robot Olympics" in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist https://t.co/WEHdYCiPlO" / X Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. Inside Musk's First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother. Silicon Valley's Newest Status Symbol Is a Super-Rare Sam Altman Swiss Watch Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Co-Host: Christina Warren Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: outsystems.com/twit scribe.how/machines framer.com/machines

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 to collapse. Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter (272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a" / X If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them Inside Big Tech's Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really? LG's humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia's Isaac GR00T New Chinese model adds to AI competition What happens to what you share with AI Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei's Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ the wikipedia guessing game Okay Spielberg TikTok At Beijing's AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens buy you beer SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Dan O'Dowd Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: horizon3.ai/intelligent