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Fire and Ash - Hot Takes on Tech Trials

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

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**Podcast:** Intelligent Machines (Audio)

## Participants

- **Leo Laporte** (TWiT)
- **Jeff Jarvis** (CUNY)
- **Paris Martineau** (The Information)
- **Marshall Kirkpatrick** (What's Up With That (what'supwiththat.app))

## Transcript

It's time for Intelligent Machines. Jeff Jarvis is here, Paris Martineau, our guest. Old friend Marshall Kirkpatrick, he's been doing tech reporting since way back when. He's got a new app. It's actually an extension for your browser that will help you analyze the content of pages. It's very cool. He's also got a prompt he's going to give away that you will like. Plus, we'll talk about all the news, including the big decision in that social media case in Los Angeles. Intelligent Machines is next.

Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is TWIT. This is Intelligent Machines with Paris Martineau and Jeff Jarvis. Episode 863. Recorded Wednesday, March 25th, 2026. Fire and Ash. It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show that covers the latest in AI, robotics, and all those smart little things all around us all.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you for your entertainment and education, the wonderful Paris Martineau investigative reporter for Consumer Reports. Huzzah! Huzzah! There's a very funny TV show about Peter the Great, or Catherine the Great, or one of the greats, Russia. It's a very funny TV show about someone who was great. Someone who was great. Who was great? And they shout huzzah all the time. Huzzah!

They shout out to the TV show. I love it. I want to find the show because you would love it. It's very funny. I think it's called The Great, but I might be wrong. Anyway. Hello, Paris. Hello, Leo. I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time. It's true. I wasn't here last week. That's it. I heard you guys had a lot of fun. We missed you. Well, welcome back. I was in the office. You were working. I was working. You have a day job. I had a day job and I had to go to an afterworks happy hour. And you know, it's lovely. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Well, you know, I had to go with all my coworkers and hang out with them in person and do a little thing. But it's wonderful doing this at a company where the average age is not 21 because then the happy hour ends. I closed it down at 730. And I was like, what a delight. Oh, my God. Because normally I'm like, I'll leave by like eight. I don't need to be the last one there. I can have a respectful beer and a half and go home. But it was wonderful.

Well, it's good to see you. Paris just hangs out with old people. That's what I think about Paris. Yeah. Normally it's probably better. I love them. Yeah, it's probably better if she not hang out so much with her grandpas like me and Mr. Jeff Jarvis, Professor Emeritus of the Journalistic Innovation at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York. author of the Gutenberg Parenthesis now in paperback. You can get that and magazine and preorder his new book Hot Typ...

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