Are we repeating the mistakes of the dot-com boom with today's AI gold rush? Intelligent Machines tackles why runaway spending, circular investments, and looming government deals could mean a hard reckoning for tech's biggest promise yet.

• Interview with Steven Levy


• Levy: Wasn't Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now


• Steven Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong


• OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers


• Can We Afford AI?


• Meta's AI system, Llama, has been approved for use by U.S. federal agencies


• China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to train


• Seeing Through the Reality of Meta's Smart Glasses


• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man


• Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research


• Fat Bear Week is back—and the bears are bigger than ever


• "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community


• ChatGPT is 3-8% of Google's search volume


• The Lovelace Test of Intelligence: Can Humans Recognise and Esteem AI-Generated Art?


• Data-Driven Analysis of Text-Conditioned AI-Generated Music: A Case Study with Suno and Udio


• The LLM Has Left The Chat: Evidence of Bail Preferences in Large Language Models


• More! Shrimp!


• Wounded robots


• Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Steven Levy

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