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Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Twit

4.2 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work.

Something Big Is Happening
Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech
Google's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
OpenAI's Meta makeover
ChatGPT's deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports
Alexa+, Amazon's AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.
Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
AI didn't kill customer support. It's rebuilding it
Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters
most for their kids.
A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study
HBR: AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis
Medicare's new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here's why it's risky
Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps
The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt
Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine's Day messages a good idea?
As Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They're Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable
YouTube Argues It Isn't Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas
Understanding Neural Network, Visually
Leo's AI Journey
The TIMELINE
TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines.
0:01.3	Paris.
0:01.6	Martin knows here.
0:02.2	Jeff Jarvis is here.
0:03.2	We'll talk about Claude Code and Opus 4.6.
0:06.9	Why it's so much better.
0:07.8	We'll try to even quantify exactly how.
0:10.1	Paris makes an amazing discovery using Claude Code, Opus 4.6.
0:16.0	And then how much power is too much power for an autonomous AI, the curious story of banked, but dent,
0:23.1	coming up. I don't think that's how you say it. Intelligent machines is next.
0:30.3	Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit.
0:38.3	This is Intelligent Machines with Peresmartineau and Jeff Jarvis.
0:42.6	Episode 857, recorded Wednesday, February 11th, 2026.
0:49.6	TaskRabbit Arbitrage.
0:51.9	It's time for intelligent machines, the show about AI robotics and the smart doodads all
0:58.9	around you.
0:59.5	And increasingly, by the way, although my co-hosts will disagree, I think the most important
1:04.2	show we do on the network, because we're really covering what's about to change.
1:08.4	You think that we would argue this show is not important?
1:12.6	That's Paris Martin.
1:13.6	As you can probably, yes, I'm Paris Martin.
1:15.6	I'm an investigative journalist to consume reports.
	...

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