May 6th 2026
Intelligent Machines 869
My Sentience is Going Up
Chatbots in Charge
New episodes every Wednesday.
Guests:
Troy Hunt
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.
- White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
- 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.
- When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
- 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?
- AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
- 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
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Links
- White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
- 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.
- When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
- 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?
- AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
- 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