Intelligent Machines with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

May 13th 2026

Intelligent Machines 870

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Hosted by Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau

Are AI Content Filters Changing What We Read?

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Guests: Chris Stokel-Walker
Category: News

British tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker reveals his hands-on approach to filtering the world’s information overload with AI, from building custom news-gathering bots to teaching reporters where the human touch still matters. Find out how next-gen tools are reshaping the front lines of reporting, and what gets lost—and found—when machines do the first pass.

  • Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook
  • Google's $9.99-per-month AI health coach launches May 19
  • Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
  • Students boo AI at commencement: video
  • Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
  • (20) rat king 🐀 on X: "okay incredible: OpenAI showing a "half of a jackass" trophy of a donkey's behind, a golden little league trophy, with a label — "never stop being a jackass...for safety" this is something musk gave to an openai employee after musk called him a jackass trophy looks nice" / X
  • NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA
  • Trump's China trip collides with AI security fears
  • Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI
  • Tech rivalry, distrust sap summit hopes for Trump-Xi AI push
  • VIDEO: Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels.
  • Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
  • Anthropic says Claude’s blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
  • Anthropic’s C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year
  • Anthropic Expands Push Into Legal Industry With New AI Tools
  • The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys
  • Internet Archive Switzerland
  • Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
  • Mira Murati's AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out.
  • The New York Times Published an A.I.-Fabricated Quote Attributed to Pierre Poilievre
  • AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies
  • Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
  • Hallucinopedia
  • Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’
  • Sand shortage
     

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