Intelligent Machines 886: Infinite Slop

Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays.

• Judge Rules on Google Ads Case
• OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
• Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
• OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk
• OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns
• Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. Thomas Wolf is betting on Microduck, a $399 robot?
• OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire
• Dyson Debuts $499 AI-Powered Toothbrush With a Built-In Camera
• Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai
• YouTube uses AI to tag products in videos & create Amazon affiliate links
• Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content
• Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
• Google Rolls Out 3 New Ways to Book Travel Using AI Mode in Search
• I Let Google's Personal Intelligence Access My Life—and It's a Huge Help
• MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality
• Google's answer to Canva is an AI tool where you prompt instead of design
• September Android Drop: Remember where you put things, ease motion sickness, and more
  (155) TIME on X: "TIME's new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in artificial intelligence https://t.co/ZnPVMdeJwe https://t.co/97g8cUJo8H" / X
• Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
• Unusual Suspects
• Shout out to 2010s era Bloomberg Businessweek covers
• Archived video
• CS majors down 8.4% or 53k

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guests: Mikah Sargent and Div Garg

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