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.
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  • 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: 33

Intelligent Machines (Video)
Podcast Episodes
IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:47:26
Think your AI assistant is working perfectly? This episode reveals why most AI breakdowns go completely unnoticed and how these "invisible failures" could be skewing the results we rely on. Fable is Back! Alex Stamos: An…
IM 876: It's No Melania - Section 230 on Trial [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:44:51
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 Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking s…
IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:15:12
The sudden US government shutdown of Anthropic's Fable model has tech insiders reeling and rival global labs surging ahead. This episode breaks down the unexpected political power play rattling the future of AI innovatio…
IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:31:07
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 Hollywood. This episode dives into the real-world impact of generative tools on…
IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:32:25
Photographer Rick Sammon shows how AI is transforming creative work and what happens when the Pope issues a sweeping 42,000-word encyclical on artificial intelligence and invites tech skeptics and true believers to weigh…
IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:53:48
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 the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security.…