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Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 163 minutes
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Summary
Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.
- Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
- Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
- OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
- AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending
- I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
- Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major
- Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent
- Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'
- AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
- The race to AGI-pill the pope
- Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell
Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:02.0 | Peresmartineau is here and Jeff Jarvis has the week off, but good news, Jason Howell, |
| 0:06.5 | we'll be filling in our guest this week. |
| 0:08.8 | Dr. Anthony Vinci is the author of The Fourth Intelligence, The Future of Espionage and the Battle |
| 0:14.7 | to Save America. |
| 0:16.3 | We'll talk about how AI has become the new form of espionage. |
| 0:20.5 | That and a lot more next on IM. |
| 0:25.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:27.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:30.3 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:34.2 | This is Intelligent Machines, Episode 848, recorded Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025, guaranteed human. |
| 0:44.2 | It's time for intelligent machines, the show we cover the latest in AI, robotics, and all the smart do-dads all around you. |
| 0:52.3 | Jeff Jarvis has the week off, but hey, look, we got somebody. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm very excited to have Mr. Jason Howell in the house. |
| 1:00.6 | Yay. |
| 1:00.9 | How we go. |
| 1:01.8 | Yay. |
| 1:02.1 | We miss you, Jason. |
| 1:03.8 | Oh, miss you guys too. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:06.4 | Thank you for the invite. |
| 1:07.1 | Still doing Android faithful, right? |
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