IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models

IM 877: Model Now Available - The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models

Author: TWiT July 2, 2026 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: Anthropic is saying "Amazon's inability to appropriately communicate severity threw our industry into chaos".
  • China's Meituan says its new AI model was trained on domestic chips
  • Chinese A.I. Models Gain Ground on Anthropic and OpenAI
  • Claude Science is Anthropic's newest flagship product
  • Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
  • The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
  • OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Custom A.I. Chip Design
  • Neon Buys 'Artificial,' a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
  • How AI helped the FBI investigate the White House Correspondents' Dinner attack
  • Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
  • Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls
  • Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
  • People have stopped trusting news but not newsrooms
  • SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device
  • * Gemini Spark, Google's agentic assistant, is now available on Mac
  • Jefferies Warns Memory Prices Will Surge 50% in Q3 2026 and Another 40% in Q4, With No Relief Until 2028
  • US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
  • Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows
  • * Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
  • The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring
  • Political Bias in AI
  • Om Malik, 1966-2026
  • Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
  • My post: California's squandered opportunity
  • Palantir coat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mike Elgan

Guest: Chris Potts

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 33

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IM 890: 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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IM 889: We Are the Neanderthals - Why LLMs Fail at Complex Reasoning [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:37:02
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IM 888: Large Linguine Model - Inside the AI Doom Debate [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:41:37
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 powerful local LLM machines. Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Accelerat…
IM 883: Gates-Gate - AI Model Watermarks [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:35:27
Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up. How Claude marks AI-gener…