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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IM 875: Florida Dad - Amazon, Anthropic, and the AI Power Struggle [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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IM 873: Superman's Mustache - AI in Hollywood [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:31:07
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IM 872: Infinite Jeffs - Why the Pope's AI Manifesto Matters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:32:25
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IM 871: CTRL-F Techno King - Google's Search Overhaul [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:53:48
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