IM 852: Gluten-free Slop - AI at CES 2026
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 161 minutes
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Summary
Jason Hiner gives us a look at the AI products at CES 2026, as big tech and chip makers blurred the lines between consumer gadgets and enterprise innovation, leaving even veteran insiders wondering: will this tech boom actually benefit everyday users?
- NVIDIA's Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
- No, Grok can't really "apologize" for posting non-consensual sexual images
- Introducing ChatGPT Health
- 'We have to reject that with every fiber of our being': DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic
- Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages - But Still Faces Criticism
- The most exciting AI wearable at CES 2026 might not be smart glasses after all
- 2025's AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs
- Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
- Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It "Slop"
- Stanford's AI class on YouTube
- Tamiflu
- Babka from Zabar's (or elsewhere)
- Happy birthday Nic Cage
- Floor796
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jason Hiner
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:01.9 | Paris-Martineau's back. |
| 0:02.9 | Jeff Jarvis is back. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm back. |
| 0:04.4 | It's our first show of 2026. |
| 0:06.8 | And, of course, we've got to check out CES. |
| 0:09.1 | Jason Heiner joins us to give us the AI lowdown from the Consumer Electronics Show. |
| 0:14.8 | Next. |
| 0:17.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:19.6 | From people you trust. This twit this is intelligent machines with paris |
| 0:28.7 | martineau and jeff jarvis episode 852 recorded wednesday january 7th 2026 gluten-free |
| 0:36.8 | slop happy new year everybody time for the first intelligent machines of January 7th, 2026, gluten-free slop. |
| 0:39.1 | Happy New Year, everybody. |
| 0:42.6 | Time for the first intelligent machines of 2026. |
| 0:47.5 | I think 2026 is going to be a very interesting year in AI, |
| 0:51.3 | so we're very glad to be doing our second year of intelligent machines. Joining me right now, Mr. Jeffff jarvis professional emeritus of journalistic |
| 0:55.8 | innovation at the craig newmark graduate school journalism at the city |
| 0:58.8 | great new work professor also at uh at uh suny stony brook and uh at uh montclair state university |
| 1:10.4 | visiting fellow hello hello hello happy new year to you fellow he's also the and at Montclair State University. Visiting Fellow. Hello, Fellow. |
| 1:12.4 | Hello, Fellow. Happy New Year to you, Fellow. He's also the author. |
| 1:15.4 | See back to you. We missed. I missed you guys. I missed you guys too. I look forward to this all week. |
| 1:20.2 | It's a chance to get together and talk about stuff I'm really interested. And also with us, |
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