# IM 885: Get on the Butter Box

**URL:** <https://www.twit.community/t/im-885-get-on-the-butter-box/20459>\
**Category:** Intelligent Machines\
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**Created:** [August 27, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/im-885-get-on-the-butter-box/20459 "2026-08-27T01:30:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/leo/32/16203_2.png) [@Leo](https://www.twit.community/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/im-885-get-on-the-butter-box/20459/1 "2026-08-27T01:30:23Z")

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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:

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

> **[Intelligent Machines: Get on the Butter Box | TWiT.TV](https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/885)**
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> With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business

#IntelligentMachines #AI #TWiT

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**Author:** ![Clayton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/clayton/32/711_2.png) [@Clayton](https://www.twit.community/u/Clayton)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/im-885-get-on-the-butter-box/20459/2 "2026-08-31T20:50:19Z")

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Jeff Jarvis: “You need an intervention, Leo”. 😂

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**Author:** ![big\_D](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/big_d/32/1023_2.png) [@big\_D](https://www.twit.community/u/big_D)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 8:38am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/im-885-get-on-the-butter-box/20459/3 "2026-09-01T08:38:14Z")

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My initial reaction was, he isn’t 100% wrong! 😃