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...
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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...
IM 867: The Ketchup Effect - The Lines Are Too Damn Long
Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory p...
IM 866: I'm Bonkers for Yonkers - Is Coding Dead?
When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. T...
IM 865: Mythic - Too Dangerous to Release?
A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for p...
IM 864: And Artemis Too - Journalism In The Age Of AI
What happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find ou...
IM 863: Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials
Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a...