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Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" approach to AI.
- State of Mozilla 2025/26
- Codeless: From idea to software - Anil Dash
- Clawdbot is the new AI techies are buzzing about — and it's renewing interest in the Mac Mini
- Qwen3-TTS Demo - a Hugging Face Space by Qwen
- I Let AI Analyze My Davos Reporting Trip. Here's What It Missed
- Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
- Proof of Corn
- Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations
- Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.
- China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says
- How Playing Pokémon Became the Ultimate Test of AI's Intelligence
- Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models
- Claude's new constitution
- "Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
- Sony's TV business is being taken over by TCL
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Mark Surman
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:01.7 | Jeff Jarvis is here. |
| 0:02.9 | Yes, he's feeling better. |
| 0:04.2 | So is Paris Martin. |
| 0:05.1 | Our guest this week, Mark Sermon is the president of Mozilla.org. |
| 0:09.8 | He talks about Mozilla's new AI manifesto. |
| 0:13.6 | We'll also talk about corn. |
| 0:15.6 | Can AI actually grow corn and make money doing it? |
| 0:18.8 | That and a whole lot more coming up next on intelligent machines. |
| 0:24.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:26.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:29.1 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:33.1 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris Martino and Jeff Jarvis. |
| 0:37.0 | Episode 855, recorded Wednesday, January 28th, 2026. |
| 0:43.0 | When you're right, you're right. |
| 0:45.2 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:47.1 | The show we cover the latest in AI and robotics and the smart machines surrounding us all today, |
| 0:53.4 | and tomorrow and forever. Joining right now paris martineau |
| 0:58.1 | from consumer reports hi paris hi leo i'm surrounded by machines they're getting ever closer please help well i do |
| 1:07.1 | note that you seem to have stolen something from your father's study. I got one of my own. |
| 1:13.6 | I realized that he were talking about the Yes Man, which is a death accoutrement that my dad had in the 90s, that I, when my parents and I were drunk on vacation last summer, I decided |
| 1:29.8 | I was going to find two more copies of it and buy them on eBay and send one to my parents' |
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