Intelligent Machines with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Feb 25th 2026

Intelligent Machines 859

What's Behind the Fox?

Tech's Gilded Age

Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests: Jeff Atwood
Category: News

What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.

  • Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight
  • Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
  • Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
  • How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans
  • My first vibe coding project!
  • Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR
  • THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
  • QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals
  • IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
  • OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera
  • ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics
  • "Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"
  • Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
  • Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro
  • Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
  • You can now make Alexa’s AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
  • Claude Remote-Control
  • Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
  • OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando
  • AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
  • More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
  • What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
  • AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
  • LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
  • Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot
  • Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself
  • Men ‘yell’ at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women
  • It’s Called the ‘Fitbit for Farts’—and It’s No Joke
  • I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak
  • This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby
  • Famous Signatures Through History
  • Finally got a Fujifilm!
  • I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay
  • Jeff's new friends
  • How far back in time can you understand English?

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