IM 861: We Have Computer At Home - Coffee and the Rise of the Machines

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Twit, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

4.2 • 895 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 193 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Apple's legendary evangelist Guy Kawasaki reveals how signal messaging and open-source AI are rewriting playbooks for privacy, immortality, and activism. Hear candid stories and sharp opinions from someone who has shaped—and challenged—today's tech giants.

OpenAI robotics hardware lead resigns
ChatGPT returns to the top of the App Store after DoD controversy
OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
Anthropic Made Pitch in Drone Swarm Contest During Pentagon Feud
Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about Pentagon AI deal
BREAKING: Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
ChatGPT update curbs 'cringe,' cuts down on answer refusals
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks
OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets - Slashdot
OpenAI delays ChatGPT's 'adult mode' again
OpenAI's IPO Hopes Face Skeptical Investor Community
Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years
Zuckerberg has "finished" with Alexandr Wang, worth US$14 billion
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion To Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW+ of next-gen Vera Rubin chips
Meta didn't buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
Where did you think the training data was coming from?
You could be an influencer without even realizing it
Amazon Wins Court Order To Block Perplexity's AI Shopping Bots
Amazon's Health AI is now open to all US customers
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'
Tiiny AI Pocket Lab: The First Pocket-Size AI Supercomputer
A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly's AI "experts"
AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases
Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
Start Up No.2624: Canadian journal retracts 25 years of studies, the AI writing question, Netflix buys Affleck AI firm, and more
William Shatner says he turned a $42 money transfer from Elon Musk into nearly $200,000 for his charity
YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World's Largest Media Company
ET Fall Preview 1994
Payphone Go
This company wants to pay you $800 to bully AI for a day
Tweakbench - your favorite producer's favorite plugins lol

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Guy Kawasaki

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0:00.0	It's time for intelligent machines. Jeff Jarvis is here. Paris Martino, our guests this hour,
0:05.0	the wonderful Guy Kawasaki, Apple's original evangelist. Now he's evangelizing Signal Messenger.
0:12.8	He's got lots to say about Apple's signal, politics, and more. Kai Kawasaki next on Intelligent Machines.
0:22.3	Podcasts you love.
0:24.1	From people you trust.
0:26.7	This is Twit.
0:30.7	This is Intelligent Machines with Paris, Markno, and Jeff Jarvis.
0:35.6	Episode 861, recorded Wednesday, March 11th 2026 we have
0:41.1	computer at home it's time for intelligent machines the show where we cover the latest in
0:46.9	AI robotics and all the smart do dads and do hickies all around you and where we very often have a
0:53.7	very interesting guest for our interviews.
0:57.0	I'm going to introduce our guest a minute, but let me say first hello to Paris Martinot, who is a killer at the Scrabble game.
1:05.0	Thanks a lot, four letters, 77 points.
1:09.0	You know, I saw that one.
1:11.6	I played a very well-placed hoax right before.
1:14.6	You did it in purpose to make me, to rattle me.
1:18.6	I did. I had to knock Leo off his game before I started recording.
1:22.6	I think I've done that successfully.
1:24.6	Yes, you have.
1:25.6	And Jeff Jarvis is also here. Oh, by the way, Paris works for consumer
1:29.9	reports where she's an investigative reporter. And Jeff Jarvis, of course, the author of the
1:36.0	Gutenberg parentheses magazine and the newest hot type, which is available for preorder right now,
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