IM 840: Pudding Forks - Industrial Bubble or Tech Boom?

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Twit

4.2 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

From lawmakers cracking down on loud ads to Deloitte caught peddling AI-fabricated reports, this episode explores how tech's greatest promises and worst follies are colliding right now.

No more loud commercials: Governor Newsom signs SB 576 | Governor of California
ChatGPT Now Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users - Slashdot
OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT
Senate Dem Report Finds Almost 100 Million Jobs Could Be Lost To AI - Slashdot
Jony Ive's secretive AI hardware reportedly hit three problems
Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI hallucinations found in report
Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries
America is now one big bet on AI
The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI
Data centers responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year
Martin Peers: The AI Profit Fantasy
A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls
Insurers hesitate at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI, Anthropic in AI lawsuits
Slop factory worries about slop: MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry
CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS DEVELOP GAMBLING ADDICTION?
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Have we passed peak social media?
As Elon Musk Preps Tesla's Optimus for Prime Time, Big Hurdles Remain
OpenAI signs huge chip deal with AMD, and AMD stock soars
Google CodeMender
Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology
Our friend Glenn

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines. Jeff's here. Paris is here. We don't have a guest this week,
0:04.0	but we do have lots of AI news. Open AI is now the world's most valuable startup,
0:09.2	partly because of SORA, more AI slop, or is this stuff pretty amazing? And we are really
0:15.7	betting big on AI. Is the crash just around the corner of that and a whole lot more coming up next
0:20.5	on intelligent machines? AI is the crash just around the corner. That and a whole lot more coming up next on Intelligent Machines.
0:25.1	Podcasts you love.
0:26.7	From people you trust.
0:29.2	This is Twit.
0:33.5	This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino.
0:37.1	Episode 840 recorded Wednesday, October 8th, 2025.
0:41.8	Hooding Forks.
0:43.4	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:45.2	The show we cover the latest in artificial intelligence, robotics,
0:49.0	and all the Jim Crackery and doodads that surround us these days with some intelligence anyway on the horn right now with me.
0:58.0	The performer professor, Professor Emeritus, I guess you're always a professor, but Professor Emeritus of Journalistic Innovation at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of Newark.
1:09.0	Craig Newmark, but no in fact is Jeff Jarvis. School of Journalism at the City University of Newark.
1:14.5	Craig Newmark, but no in fact is Jeff Jarvis.
1:17.0	That's a little confusing I never really realized.
1:17.8	It is.
1:18.2	Yes.
1:22.0	Now at Montclair State University in SUNY-Stoney Brook, he has a jingle.
1:23.3	It's just somebody else's name.
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