Intelligent Machines 869: My Sentience is Going Up

Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt reveals how a homegrown AI sidekick helps manage billions of hacked credentials, but even the smartest bots aren't immune to hallucinations and headaches.

• White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
• Elon Musk admits xAI distilled OpenAI models
• Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
• OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant update to make ChatGPT smarter with fewer emoji
• Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
• Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. https://t.co/qFgCivQTTi
• We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time.
• When Daawkins met Claude - UnHerd
• I am one of those whose research points to the conclusion that the mind is computable.
• Say Hello to the Internet of AI
• The greatest capital misallocation in history?
• AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
• China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.
• Academy announces major overhaul to rules
• AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses
• The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs
• Have LLMs improved patient outcomes?
• As workers worry about AI, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is 'creating an enormous number of jobs'
• Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
• California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
• 'This is fine' creator says AI startup stole his art
• Google DeepMind Takes Minority Stake in Maker of 'Eve Online'
• He Couldn't Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
• Empty Screenings
• Furwall by Ollie Wagner
• DataCenter.FM 🤖🔊 The sound of AI
• So Long Jeeves and Ask.com, Relics of Yesterday's Internet
• The Python Hunt
• News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content
• Vanishing Culture from the Internet Archive
• Gigantic Gutenberg Bible page
• Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Troy Hunt

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