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

May 6th 2026

Intelligent Machines 869

My Sentience is Going Up

Chatbots in Charge

New episodes every Wednesday.
Guests: Troy Hunt
Category: News

Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren’t immune to hallucinations and headaches.

  • White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
  • Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models
  • Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
  • OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji
  • Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
  • Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi
  • We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.
  • When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
  • I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.
  • Say Hello to the Internet of AI
  • The greatest capital misallocation in history?
  • AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
  • China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
  • Academy announces major overhaul to rules
  • AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses
  • The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
  • Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
  • As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’
  • Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
  • California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
  • Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
  • ‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
  • Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of ‘Eve Online’
  • He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
  • Empty Screenings
  • Furwall by Ollie Wagner
  • DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
  • So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday’s Internet
  • The Python Hunt
  • News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content
  • Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive
  • Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page
  • Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

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