Jul 8th 2026
Intelligent Machines 878
The 1AM Bus to Chinatown
Robots, Bison, and the Art of Savoring Small Stuff
New episodes every Wednesday.
Guests:
Ian Bogost
Whether it’s the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology is transforming even the simplest moments—and why it’s not always for the better.
- OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
- Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
- OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
- Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
- Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us
- Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
- Meta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every moment
- Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
- Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame
- Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies
- A Twist in This Year’s Strangest Literary AI Scandal
- Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
- Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat
- Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders
- Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie ‘Misaligned,’ Marking Feature Debut for AI ‘Actor’
- MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand
- lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
- GuideAlong
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Links
- OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
- Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say
- OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
- Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
- Meta money grab is a plea to investors: Stick with us
- Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
- Meta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every moment
- Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
- Nvidia’s Kyber AI rack slips to 2028, and one circuit board is to blame
- Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies
- A Twist in This Year’s Strangest Literary AI Scandal
- Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
- Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat
- Reid Hoffman: Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders
- Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie ‘Misaligned,’ Marking Feature Debut for AI ‘Actor’
- MaximeRivest/riddle: The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro — write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand
- lfnovo/open-notebook: An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
- GuideAlong
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