IM 829: The Yonkers Questions - What's New With NotebookLM
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 177 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with Steven Johnson
- Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
- Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch
- (21) Jeff Wang on X: "To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this" / X
- Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
- The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears
OpenAI partners with Oracle to built out 4.5 gigawatts in data center capacity
SoftBank and OpenAI's $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground - (21) Alexander Wei on X: "1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO)." / X
- It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
- Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'—and Regulation
- Elon Musk's xAI tried to teach Grok how to be human — by recording its own workers' faces
- A new study just upended AI safety
- 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
- Tesla results
- Total Party Kill
- Twin Peaks as it is meant to be seen
- Attack of the clever crows
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Steven Johnson
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. Jeff and Paris are here coming up. We've got Stephen Johnson. |
| 0:05.0 | He's the editorial director at Notebook L.M. Google's amazing AI tool. We'll talk about some big |
| 0:11.3 | breakthroughs in math understanding from open AI and deep mind. And then an apology. I recommended |
| 0:19.0 | this little do-hicky, this AI do-hicky. Well, now I found out it just got sold |
| 0:24.7 | to Amazon. We'll talk about the fate of the B computer. All that more coming up next on |
| 0:30.6 | intelligent machines. Podcasts you love. From people you trust this is twit this is intelligent machines with paris martineau and |
| 0:45.9 | jeff jarvis episode 829 recorded wednesday july 23rd 2025 the yonkers questions it's time for intelligent machines the show we cover the latest in the artificial intelligence space robotics and all those little smart things surrounding you intelligently glad to have you here also glad to have Paris Martina, who is now gainfully employed. |
| 1:11.0 | Where would this be, Paris? Can you now tell us? |
| 1:14.1 | Where would I be employed? I'm employed in consumer reports. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm an investigative journalist there on the special projects team and I'm really excited about it. |
| 1:23.3 | The consumer reports that Craig Newmark is the board member of. |
| 1:32.0 | Now we can do a double Craig. |
| 1:33.8 | Consumer reports that also took the former co-host of this show away from you guys. |
| 1:39.3 | Oh, that's true. |
| 1:40.0 | Isn't that weird? |
| 1:41.2 | Thank God they didn't steal you away. |
| 1:43.5 | They have good taste, I guess. |
| 1:49.0 | They have good taste. So we have a proposal to have, |
| 1:54.4 | uh, do a twit with you and Stacy and Nicholas DeLeon all three of you work. Get Craig in there and Craig too. And get we should get Craig on it and be a super |
| 1:57.9 | consumer reports episode of twit.'s a great idea it'll be thrilling |
| 2:00.9 | like it anyway congratulations on the new job parents really happy for you that's fantastic |
| 2:06.0 | congratulations to consumer reports for getting you for the smart for good sense uh that is jeff |
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