IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge

IM 869: My Sentience is Going Up - Chatbots in Charge

Author: TWiT May 7, 2026 Duration: 2:29:13

Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.

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  • Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models
  • Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
  • OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji
  • Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
  • Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi
  • We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.
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  • I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.
  • Say Hello to the Internet of AI
  • The greatest capital misallocation in history?
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  • China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
  • Academy announces major overhaul to rules
  • AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses
  • The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
  • Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
  • As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'
  • Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
  • California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
  • Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
  • 'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art
  • Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'
  • He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
  • Empty Screenings
  • Furwall by Ollie Wagner
  • DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
  • So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet
  • The Python Hunt
  • News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content
  • Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive
  • Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page
  • Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Troy Hunt

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 13

Intelligent Machines (Video)
Podcast Episodes
IM 867: The Ketchup Effect - The Lines Are Too Damn Long [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:45:37
Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI cou…
IM 866: I'm Bonkers for Yonkers - Is Coding Dead? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:28:30
When renowned photographer Craig Mod coded his own AI-powered Twitter, the lines between art, tech, and community blur in surprising ways. This episode explores what happens when creative minds take AI into their own han…
IM 865: Mythic - Too Dangerous to Release? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:26:36
A secretive AI called Mythos is already finding zero-day exploits that humans missed for decades, but Anthropic claims it is too risky for public release. Hear what leading security experts think could happen if this tec…
IM 864: And Artemis Too - Journalism In The Age Of AI [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:25:03
What happens when a thriving newsletter-turned-AI lab lets artificial intelligence shape writing, editing, and even entire products? Find out how Every is challenging the boundaries between tech and culture and why even…
IM 863: Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:44:09
Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a journalist, flagging what's truly new and revealing the patterns that matter. I…
IM 862: Ménage à Claude - AI, Human Agency, and Economic Value [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:00:43
Who gets to define what intelligence means in the age of AI, and why are tech companies so keen to shift blame onto their creations? This episode digs into moral outsourcing, agency, and the urgent need for independent o…
IM 860: You Gotta Get Computer - Claude Surges to No. 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:08:24
A principled stand by an underdog AI company ignites a mass migration of users, shakes up Silicon Valley talent wars, and leaves even the tech giants recalculating their moves. Hear how one weekend suddenly redrew the li…