IM 831: 9 Seconds of Google - Holy Widgets
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 158 minutes
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Summary
- Interview with Vlad Prelovac, CEO of Kagi
- OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
- Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
- Kitten TTS: The 25MB AI Voice Model That's About to Change EVERYTHING (Runs on a Potato! 🥔)
- Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services | StateScoop
- Perplexity defensive over ignoring robots.txt and stealing data
- Tesla Autopilot verdict sends a chill across the industry
- AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay
- Jim Acosta Just Interviewed an AI Version of a Parkland Victim
- The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
- A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful.
- When you can't trust bunnies on a trampoline....
- AI vegans
- Get $120 off Thistle with my discount code
- Finally, bookmarks on Bluesky... kind of
- Good guy humpback whales
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Vlad Prelovac
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. Jeff and Paris are here. Great interview to kick things off. |
| 0:04.0 | Vlad Prelevitz is here. Founder of Kagi, the best search site ever. It beats Google all hollow. |
| 0:13.0 | We'll also talk about the controversy over perplexity versus cloud flare, AI flight pricing, |
| 0:19.0 | and why it may cost you a lot more next time you fly, |
| 0:23.4 | plus an amazing new video generator from Google. |
| 0:26.9 | That and a whole lot more. |
| 0:27.7 | Coming up next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:33.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:34.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:37.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:41.4 | This is Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:43.5 | Episode 831, |
| 0:45.3 | recorded Wednesday, August 6th, 2025. |
| 0:48.9 | Nine seconds of Google. |
| 0:51.2 | It's time for intelligent machines, |
| 0:53.1 | the show where we talk about the latest in AI |
| 0:55.1 | robotics and the smart doodads and do hickies surrounding you. Careful. There's one over there. |
| 1:03.1 | This is always a pleasure to do this show because I get together with two of my favorite people. |
| 1:07.4 | Paris Martino is here. Investigative reporter. There was an intelligent machine right underneath me. |
| 1:12.2 | It's everywhere. They're everywhere. She is a investigative journalist that I'm happy to say |
| 1:18.0 | Consumer Reports. Paris.N.YC is her website. Hello, Paris. Is that a new painting over the |
| 1:23.2 | fireplace? Over the manpower? It's not, but I, my office situation is kind of in flux right now, so the camera is probably |
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