Oct 7th 2026
Intelligent Machines 891
Previously on Swarm Chasers
Digital Swarms and the Persistence Problem
New episodes every Wednesday.
Guests:
Spencer Thompson
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
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Links
- Mistral 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