IM 887: September 39th - Siri's Next Move: Inside Apple's Ambitious AI Overhaul
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...
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IM 886: Infinite Slop - The End of Apps? Meet the Agentic OS Built for Your Phone
Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? F...
IM 885: Get on the Butter Box - Can Local AI Models Outperform Frontier Labs?
With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we ru...
IM 884: Cyber Jim - Why Critical Infrastructure Depends on Obsessive Code Reviews
Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, i...
IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks
Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the D...
IM 882: AI Rubberz? - From Fart Apps to AI Agents The Journey of a Tech Rulemaker
Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digita...
IM 881: Curtains for Zoosha? - Why Newsrooms Must Rethink Journalism in the AI Age
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefin...
IM 880: The Beans are in the Mail - Can American AI Compete When China Gives It Away?
An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending agains...
IM 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp - Beyond Fable: Are Open Models Ready for Prime Time?
With open weight models fast approaching the power and utility of closed AI giants, enterprises face tough choices about privacy, sovereignt...
IM 878: The 1AM Bus to Chinatown - Robots, Bison, and the Art of Savoring Small Stuff
Whether it's the sensory joy of homemade gelato or the privacy risks baked into AI-powered apps, the conversation spotlights how technology...
IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models
Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible f...
IM 876: It's No Melania - Section 230 on Trial
Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether...
IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle
The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode bre...
IM 874: Google Knows I Love the Pepper Cannon - AI and the New Social Contract
Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills....
IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood
AI is upending the movie business, from Amazon's new AI Creators Fund to contract battles that just gave synthetic actors the green light in...
IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical...
IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul
Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what...
IM 870: Meet Me In Alaska - Are AI Content Filters Changing What We Read?
British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world's information overload with AI, from buildi...
IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge
Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest b...
IM 868: Happy Hamburgers Towing Timmy To The Sea - Can You Really Own Your AI?
Are you ready for a world where true personal computing is under threat? This week's candid conversation with Framework CEO Nirav Patel tack...