Feb 11th 2026
Intelligent Machines 857
Taskrabbit Arbitrage
Disposable Code and Automation
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Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today’s AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show’s hosts use cutting-edge tools to challenge each other's optimism, skepticism, and predictions for the future of work.
- Something Big Is Happening
- Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
- Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
- Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech
- Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
- OpenAI's Meta makeover
- ChatGPT’s deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports
- Alexa+, Amazon’s AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.
- Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
- AI didn’t kill customer support. It’s rebuilding it
- Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters
most for their kids. - A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
- AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
- Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
- Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
- How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
- LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study
- HBR: AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
- As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
- Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis
- Medicare’s new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here’s why it’s risky
- Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
- Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps
- The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt
- Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
- Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine’s Day messages a good idea?
- As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable
- YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
- 'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas
- Understanding Neural Network, Visually
- Leo's AI Journey
- The TIMELINE
- TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials
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- Something Big Is Happening
- Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
- Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion
- Google is going for the jugular — by doubling capex and outspending the rest of Big Tech
- Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
- OpenAI's Meta makeover
- ChatGPT’s deep research tool adds a built-in document viewer so you can read its reports
- Alexa+, Amazon’s AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.
- Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
- AI didn’t kill customer support. It’s rebuilding it
- Worried about AI taking jobs? Ex-Microsoft exec tells parents what kind of education matters most for their kids.
- A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
- AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
- Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
- Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
- How To Think About AI: Is It The Tool, Or Are You?
- LEO! Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study
- HBR: AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
- As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts | Reuters
- Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis | EV
- Medicare’s new pilot program taps AI to review claims. Here’s why it’s risky
- Section 230 Turns 30; Both Parties Want It Gone—For Contradictory Reasons
- Meet Gizmo: A TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps
- The Evolution of Bengt Betjänt
- Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping
- Is having AI ghostwrite your Valentine’s Day messages a good idea?
- As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable
- YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
- 'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas
- Understanding Neural Network, Visually
- Leo's AI Journey
- The TIMELINE
- TWiT x 2 in Super Bowl commercials