IM 839: Cogsuckers and Clankers - Radio's New Golden Age or Apocalypse?
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 145 minutes
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Summary
What happens when ex-Google innovators build an AI-powered app that turns your emails, favorite subreddits, and even your calendar into a custom radio station you can talk to? In this episode, the creators of Hux reveal how they're reimagining the way we consume information and why radio and podcasts might never be the same.
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Raiza Martin
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:01.6 | Our guest this week, Riza Martin is formerly from Notebook L.M, which we love. |
| 0:06.9 | She's created a new app with two other notebook L.M founders called Hux, |
| 0:11.4 | a way to kind of get a 24-7 feed of news about the things you're interested in. |
| 0:17.1 | It's all generated by AI. |
| 0:18.8 | Next on Intelligent Machines. |
| 0:23.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.7 | From people you trust. |
| 0:28.2 | This is Twit. |
| 0:32.2 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Martin O and Jeff Jarvis, episode 839, recorded Wednesday, October 1st, 2025. |
| 0:42.2 | Cog suckers and Clankers. |
| 0:45.3 | It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show we cover the latest in AI, robotics, and all the smart doodads, and Gougos surrounding you this day and age gauze giga |
| 0:57.7 | i don't know how to pronounce it that's jeff jarvis i know how to say that he's professor emeritus |
| 1:03.3 | of journalistic innovation at the craig newmark graduate school at the new york rake newmark |
| 1:09.1 | is the new york author of the Gutenberg |
| 1:12.5 | Parenthesis, what would Google do, magazine, the web we weave. |
| 1:17.3 | Quick, quick, get the display ready. |
| 1:20.9 | Currently at Montclair State University and SUNY Stony Brook, |
| 1:24.9 | great to have you. |
| 1:25.9 | Paris Martino is here from Consumer |
| 1:28.3 | Reports, where she's an investigative journalist. She is from Consumer Reports, does not speak |
| 1:32.3 | for Consumer Reports. It's true. And when I speak for anyone, I don't know how to pronounce |
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