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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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Recent Guests

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
Div Garg
Founder and CEO, AGI, Inc.
AGI, Inc.
Episode: Intelligent Machines 886: Infinite Slop
John Ternus
New Apple CEO, hardware veteran
Apple
Episode: MacBreak Weekly 1040: New CEO, Who Dis?
Christina Warren
Developer Relations at GitHub; MacBreak Weekly regular; former DeepMind; GitHub advocate
GitHub
Episode: Intelligent Machines 885: Get on the Butter Box
Dan O'Dowd
Founder of the Dawn Project
Dawn Project
Episode: Intelligent Machines 884: Cyber Jim
Gina Smith
Co-host and former tech journalist
Gina Smith (guest on episode)
Episode: This Week in Tech 1097: Gina and the Glueballs
Denise Howell
Internet attorney
Hearsay Culture; Internet attorney
Episode: This Week in Tech 1097: Gina and the Glueballs
Bruce Schneier
Security expert and author who discusses AI governance and the genie metaphor
Harvard/Schneier on Security
Episode: Security Now 1091: The Post BlackHat State of AI

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 283 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 States4 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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Hosts bring humor and accessible explanations, making complex topics digestible.
Shows have high technical depth with practical takeaways for businesses.
Guests often provide policy and security perspectives, broadening the discussion.

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#234
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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.
Intelligent Machines 879: Alex Karp, Alex Karp, Alex Karp
Q: How did Raffi test and compare different AI models?
They used a combination of benchmarks from multiple sources and a personal prompt-by-prompt testing setup (Morph) to replay prompts across models and eyeball results rather than strict scientific metrics.

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