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A compendium of podcasts from the Chief TWiT, Leo Laporte. This feed includes all of Leo's audio or video releases and sometimes includes his appearances on other podcasts. One feed to serve them all.

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Apple's long-delayed kitchen device and Tesla's flying car spectacle make this panel one you won't want to miss! Data center delays, AI-driven job shakeups, and real-time debates on the real winners in broadband show that the tech landscape isn't jus... more

GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptiv... more

Microsoft's latest Windows event left even diehard enthusiasts scratching their heads, with new AI-powered hardware and "RTX Spark" PCs getting top billing but little clear reason for anyone to buy them. If you're wondering what actually matters in t... more

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Think your open-source AI model is safe? This episode uncovers how LLMs can be secretly booby-trapped with undetectable backdoors, raising the stakes for anyone deploying AI in serious environments.

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Recent Guests

Louis Maresca
Engineering leader at Co-Pilot, Microsoft
Microsoft Copilot
Episode: This Week in Tech 1104: Real Gs Move in Silence Like Lasagna
Mike Gannotti
Founder/CEO of SMF Works, AI solutions engineer
SMF Works
Episode: Intelligent Machines 890: 200 Donuts
Paula Januszkiewicz
Security expert, runs Secure in Warsaw, Poland
Secure
Episode: Windows Weekly 1003: Another Story Ruined By Keith
Federico Viticci
Editor-in-Chief of MacStories
MacStories.net
Episode: MacBreak Weekly 1044: Live, Love, Re-Org
Iain Thomson
Dapper and distinguished representative discussing tech news and analysis
Tech media
Episode: This Week in Tech 1103: Raspberry Pi in the Sky
Patrick Hillmann
COO and Chief Strategy Officer, Logical Intelligence
Logical Intelligence
Episode: Intelligent Machines 889: We Are the Neanderthals
Federico Vettici
Reviewer in AI/Apple hardware space, often quoted as discussing Mac Studio/M5 Ultra reviews
Federico Vettici (journalist/reviewer)
Episode: MacBreak Weekly 1043: The Irrational Phone
Lon Seidman
Consumer tech reviewer and podcaster, invited guest for Intelligent Machines segment
LonSeidman.com
Episode: Windows Weekly 1001: Corporate Surveillance With Watercolors
Matthew Cassinelli
Apple AI expert, founder of supercomputer.tech
supercomputer.tech / AppIntense
Episode: Intelligent Machines 887: September 39th

Hosts

Jeff Jarvis
Host of Intelligent Machines, TWiT network
Paris Martineau
Co-host, Consumer Reports contributor
Richard Campbell
Regular Windows Weekly panelist
Steve Gibson
Host of Security Now, security expert
Leo Laporte
Host of This Week in Tech and Intelligent Machines

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 284 ratings
  • It’s like having a fun conversation with best friends who are Technology geniuses, & they’re funny!

    I absolutely love the show. I’ve been listening since it first came out and I’m now just getting around to leaving a glowing review. It is informative, so much fun, and really perfect for someone in the tech industry as well as anyone who wants to understand emerging technologies. The personalities are awesome and the guests are extraordinarily knowledgeable. Highly recommend!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Chicago Brian
    United States5 months ago
  • Great!

    Great show -both informative and entertaining! Please just keep it coming!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Tokoblondie
    United States2 years ago
  • I have listened to Leo (Uncle Leo as my wife and I refer to him) since his days with TechTV in the 90s. Unfortunately, he has started to fall prey to the trend of politicizing everything. I've come to the point of having to skip the first 30 minutes of each show to get past it all.

    Podchaser
    3
    John Parker
    2 years ago
  • Good show

    Podcast Addict
    4
    Koolious
    6 years ago
  • Best Tech Podcast, Hands Down!

    Great guests every week and an incredible amount of technology news packed into every episode. Can’t recommend this podcast enough!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Electric trainer
    United States7 years ago

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Intelligent Machines 889: We Are the Neanderthals
Q: How do energy-based models (EBMs) differ from LLMs in practice?
EBMs use a physical landscape with energy points to steer outcomes, providing more deterministic and constrained results, whereas LLMs rely on token prediction and often struggle with complex, combinatorial tasks. EBMs are trained on specific data sets and use mathematical physics to score potential outcomes, reducing hallucinations and enabling tighter control.
Security Now 1095: AI-Driven Expertise Loss
Q: What is the core concern about AI-driven expertise loss?
The hosts discuss how highly capable AI could erode the development of junior engineers, risking long-term capability by replacing formative, hands-on learning with automation, and advocate deliberate manual gates to preserve critical skills.
Intelligent Machines 888: Large Linguine Model
Q: What motivates people to pursue local AI and build models at home?
The guests describe a mix of curiosity, cost efficiency, privacy, and practical control over data, with local models offering a path to experimentation without relying on cloud providers.
Intelligent Machines 886: Infinite Slop
Q: What is AGI, Inc.'s core mission and how does it differ from other AI companies?
AGI, Inc. is pursuing a platform of on-device, agentic AI that can understand and act across a user's entire device ecosystem without requiring cloud connectivity for core tasks, leveraging spatialized, task-specialized models rather than a single massive model.
This Week in Tech 1095: Horses and Sailboats
Q: What are the big picture implications of Apple and Samsung competing in foldables?
The panel sees the foldable format as a proving ground for new camera tech, durability, and software integration; Apple may pressure competitors to raise the standard while balancing price sensitivity, leasing strategies, and how software optimizes folded form factors.

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