IM 863: Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 892 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 166 minutes
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Summary
Tech journalist Marshall Kirkpatrick joins the panel to showcase a new AI-powered tool that doesn't just summarize articles—it thinks like a journalist, flagging what's truly new and revealing the patterns that matter. If you want to stay several steps ahead in the AI race, this episode is a must-listen.
- Malware autodownloaded by AI agents
- Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was "inevitable" on its apps
- We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.
- TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
- Apple Can 'Distill' Google's Big Gemini Model
- Apple Plans AI Reboot With Siri App, New Look and 'Ask Siri' Button in iOS 27
- Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic
- A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace
- A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using
- Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies
- Jury finds Elon Musk guilty of defrauding Twitter investors [U]
- Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80
- AI Doc trailer
- reflect — Time-Travel Reflection for Obsidian
- Esoteric Ebb
- Butthole
- Regex Blaster
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. Jeff Jarvis is here. Paris-Martineau, our guest, |
| 0:04.3 | old friend Marshall Kirkpatrick, he's been doing tech reporting since way back when. He's got a new |
| 0:10.2 | app. It's actually an extension for your browser that will help you analyze the content of pages. |
| 0:16.5 | It's very cool. He's also got a prompt. He's going to give away that you will like. Plus, |
| 0:21.7 | we'll talk about all the news, including the big decision in that social media case in Los Angeles. |
| 0:27.3 | Intelligent Machines is next. |
| 0:32.1 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twit. |
| 0:40.2 | This is Intelligent Machines with Paris Martinoa and Jeff Jarvis. |
| 0:44.3 | Episode 863, recorded Wednesday, March 25th, 2026. |
| 0:49.8 | Fire and Ash. |
| 0:52.0 | It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show that covers the latest in AI robotics and all those smart little things all around us all. |
| 1:00.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, I give you for your entertainment and education, the wonderful Paris Martino investigative report. |
| 1:08.7 | Huzzah! |
| 1:09.5 | Haza for concern reports. Huzz's a very funny TV show about Peter the |
| 1:18.5 | great or Catherine the great or one of the greats |
| 1:21.3 | Russia it's a very funny TV show about someone who was great |
| 1:24.5 | who was great and they shout huzzah all the time. Hazzar. They shout out to the TV show. I want to find the show because you would love it. It's very funny. I think it's called the Great, but I might be wrong. Anyway, hello, Paris. Hello, Leo. I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time. It's true. I wasn't here last week. |
| 1:45.0 | That's it. |
| 1:46.0 | I heard you guys had a lot of fun. We missed you. I was in the office. You were working. You have a day job. Yeah. I had a day job and I had to go to an after works happy hour and you know, it's Wait a minute. Wait a minute. |
| 1:59.0 | Well, you know, I had to go with all my coworkers and hang out with them in person, |
| 2:05.6 | you know, do a little thing. |
| 2:06.6 | But it's wonderful doing this at a company where the average age is not 21, because then |
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