IM 885: Get on the Butter Box

New episode of Intelligent Machines: Episode #885, “Get on the Butter Box,” is now available.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis · Cohost: Christina Warren

Topics covered:

  • :red_apple: Apple and Nvidia hardware bringing powerful local AI home — and possibly ending the GPU monopoly
  • :unlocked: Open-weight models like Qwen3.8-Flash and Thomson Reuters building its own AI on Chinese open-source tech
  • :balance_scale: Meta’s $16.68 billion child-harm settlement and the Twitch/Amazon lawsuit over training AI on streamers’ content
  • :memo: Bill Gates’s 5,784-word essay warning “there is no plan” for AI
  • :helicopter: An AI-guided drone strike in Ukraine, Nvidia’s $6B U.S.-vs.-China AI push, and robot chaos at the ‘Robot Olympics’

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