Spies aren't just in the shadows anymore—AI has turned every smartphone and social feed into a battlefield of influence and surveillance. This episode exposes how intelligence agencies, rogue states, and even TikTok are using machine learning to reshape what we know, believe, and fear.

• Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
• Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
• OpenAI CEO Declares 'Code Red' to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
• AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending
• I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
• Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major
• Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent
• Don't get angry, but the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year is 'rage bait'
• AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner
• The race to AGI-pill the pope
• Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck for $250M Fundraise

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Jason Howell

Guest: Dr. Anthony Vinci

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AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people?

• Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
• White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say
  Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device
• Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
• Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream
• The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok
• The prof crashed
• I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
• Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich
• Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence
• AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing
• Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?
• A beautiful Nic Cage commercial
• This stuffing recipe
• How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m.
• 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons
• The Stahl House
• A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Emad Mostaque

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What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it when the stakes are global.

• Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
• Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
• Part 1: How I Found Out
• $1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand
• His announcement leaving Meta
• White House Working on Executive Order to Foil State AI Regulations
• Nvidia stock soars after results, forecasts top estimates with sales for AI chips 'off the charts'
• Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
• Jack Conte: I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain
• AI love, actually
• Cat island
• road trip: liquidator's warehouse
• Gentype
• The Carpenter's Son...
• My excerpt from the Q&A
• Image of the paper

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Jimmy Wales

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