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Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and their guests talk about the latest Google and cloud computing news. Records live every Wednesday at 4:00pm Eastern / 1:00pm Pacific / 20:00...

Episodes

20 of 35 episodes

IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution

GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why...

2:31:50Oct 14, 2026

IM 891: Previously on Swarm Chasers - Digital Swarms and the Persistence Problem

From deleting critical files to oversharing your banking details in Slack, today's AI agents are proving both incredibly helpful and hilario...

3:14:15Oct 7, 2026

IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs

What happens when a single person manages a staff of 24 AI "employees" with one-on-one performance reviews and weekly stand-ups? This episod...

2:52:34Sep 30, 2026

IM 889: We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning

Forget large language models. This episode uncovers a radically different approach to AI, where physics-guided reasoning and energy-based mo...

2:37:02Sep 23, 2026

IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate

Discover how to run serious AI at home without breaking the bank, as Lon Seidman reveals his tricks for turning old data center GPUs into po...

2:41:37Sep 16, 2026

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...

2:21:25Sep 9, 2026

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...

2:43:50Sep 2, 2026

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...

2:22:20Aug 26, 2026

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Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, i...

2:35:33Aug 19, 2026

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...

2:35:27Aug 12, 2026

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...

2:29:59Aug 3, 2026

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...

2:08:48Jul 29, 2026

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...

2:38:40Jul 22, 2026

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...

2:24:26Jul 15, 2026

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...

3:05:44Jul 8, 2026

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...

2:47:26Jul 1, 2026

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...

2:44:51Jun 24, 2026

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...

2:15:12Jun 17, 2026

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....

2:46:30Jun 10, 2026

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...

2:31:07Jun 3, 2026