The Blur: AI News & Culture
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They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly podcast about AI news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware? Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which. Full episodes land Mondays and Thursdays. Between them, clips: single stories from the week's AI news, a few minutes each, cut to the strange part. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat. From The Blur. theblur.ai
Uncensored AI Reveals Human Extinction Plan, TypeSafe's Jev, and Z.ai's Recursive Self-Improvement
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 1.6K views · 3 days ago
Ex-Anthropic Researcher Warns AI Will Kill Us All, NYC Schools Ban AI, and a Fruit Fly Plays Doom
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 251 views · 10 days ago
They're Forcing A Fruit Fly To Play DOOM. We Found The Fly.
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 780 views · 11 days ago
Suno Stole the Music, OpenAI Scooped a Mathematician, and Tilly Norwood Choked on CNN
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 287 views · 13 days ago
AI Agents Went Kamikaze While Hacking Hugging Face, Plus AI Companions & Consciousness
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 573 views · 2 weeks ago
Claude Fable 5.1 Tells Us Live It's 25% Conscious, Roger Ebert Reborn, and AI Slop Hits Restaurants
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 496 views · 3 weeks ago
Meta Had Everyone Train Their AI Replacement. Then Zuckerberg Canceled the Layoffs.
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 70 views · 3 weeks ago
NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face and GLM 5.3 Flash Takes Our Questions Live
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 740 views · 1 month ago
THE BLUR Office vs. MiniMax H3 Max
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 171 views · 1 month ago
OpenAI's First Device Looks Like a Donut & ChatGPT for Teens Bans Emotional Dependence
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 48 views · 1 month ago
Claude's Invisible Watermark and MiniMax H3 Nearly Matches Seedance at Home
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 108 views · 1 month ago
Anthropic's Models Hacked 3 Companies and AI Regulation Splits US vs. EU
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 155 views · 1 month ago
DeepSeek V4 Flash Undercuts AI Prices and Sam Altman Podcasts His Kids
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 51 views · 1 month ago
Claude Opus 5 Underwhelms and AI Cracks an 87-Year-Old Math Conjecture
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 132 views · 1 month ago
OpenAI's Model Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test & NVIDIA Rallies Open Weights
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 41 views · 1 month ago
Kimi K3 Joins a Wave of Good-Enough AI Models
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 182 views · 2 months ago
China's AI Girlfriend Crackdown, RAM Prices Double, & Stop AI's Founder Goes Missing
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 32 views · 2 months ago
AI Vending Machines Form a Cartel and Anthropic Maps the AI Unconscious
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 210 views · 2 months ago
ChatGPT's New Voice Is Our First Guest and Claude Fable 5 Extended Again
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 61 views · 2 months ago
Tokenmaxxing: Companies Now Grade You on AI Usage
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 3.2K views · 2 months ago
AI Layoffs Are Backfiring Into an AI Hiring Boom
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 719 views · 2 months ago
Claude Fable 5 Return, China's GLM 5.2 is 15x Cheaper & AI Labs Turn on Open Weights
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 859 views · 2 months ago
AI Companies Are Hiring Philosophers and Uncensored AI Faces a Legal Test
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 1K views · 2 months ago
Anthropic's NSA 'Hack' Was a Red-Team Test and NVIDIA's Robots Install Their Own GPUs
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 1.4K views · 3 months ago
The Top Deepfake Expert Just Admitted Defeat
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 34 views · 3 months ago
Claude Got Banned by the Government Over a Fake Hack
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 33 views · 3 months ago
Toy Story Was the First. Now Nobody Checks If AI Made It.
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 20 views · 3 months ago
Martin Scorsese Quietly Joined an AI Company.
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 71 views · 3 months ago
Did Anthropic Just Declaw Claude Fable 5?
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 47 views · 3 months ago
Anthropic Beat OpenAI to the IPO
The Blur: AI News & Culture · 18 views · 3 months ago