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October 01 The Proactive AI Agent Race is On
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis tackle AI agents from every angle. Nvidia released an open source safety platform just as OpenAI launched Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers and app integrations. Meta unveiled the Muse Charm, a palm-sized AI device. Anthropic's IPO prospectus revealed $518 billion in infrastructure commitments and extensive risk warnings. AMD announced an $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs.
Also in this episode: Trump's "super intelligence" rebrand and a "morally binding" White House AI accord, the Googlebook launch and ChromeOS end of life, Manus 2.0's new architecture, Google paying publishers for AI Overviews, Gemini fully replacing Google Assistant on Android, and Project Suncatcher's plans for AI in space. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Podcast begins
02:30 - Handshake, AI portfolios, and education
04:38 - Googlebook hands-on and ChromeOS
13:09 - XREAL Aura with Googlebook
17:42 - The AI Doc: fear and perspective
20:46 - Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform
Related: Nvidia Releases Software It Says Can Prevent AI Agents From Going Rogue
24:25 - Insurance and AI accountability
30:14 - Patreon thanks and AI workshop
33:15 - OpenAI Dots and Meta Muse
38:21 - Meta's push for business customers
39:16 - Why AI agents suddenly look cuddly
43:21 - Muse Charm and Jony Ive hardware
45:57 - Trump's superintelligence rebrand and AI accord
Related: Trump says he and tech leaders signed AI agreement that is ‘morally binding’
50:15 - America.gov and AI guardrails
50:56 - Anthropic's IPO prospectus and $518B commitments
Related: What’s in Anthropic’s I.P.O. Filing · Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
53:39 - OpenAI's safety and release delays
54:26 - SNL's Dario Amodei impression
Related: The Dario SNL video
56:06 - AMD, World Labs, and Fei-Fei Li
58:25 - Manus 2.0 and Cue
Related: Introducing Manus 2.0: Cue
01:00:33 - Gemini replaces Gems with Skills
01:02:09 - Google pays publishers for AI Overviews
Related: Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping
01:04:55 - Gemini replaces Google Assistant
01:05:33 - Project Suncatcher: AI in space
Related: Google Takes the A.I. Data Center Race to Outer Space · Can Tech Companies Really Put Data Centers in Space?
01:09:53 - Jeff's Hot Type and Haverhill event
01:11:33 - Jason's Podtuneup consulting
01:13:03 - Patreon and executive producers
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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1 hr 19 min
September 25 Qualcomm Wants Its AI Chips On Every Device
Thanks to Qualcomm for sponsoring Jason's travel to Maui for the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit.
This week Jason Howell reports from Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Maui, where the company unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a new Extreme tier capable of running 30-billion-parameter AI models on a phone. Jason goes hands-on with Snap Specs, revisits the XREAL Aura, and sits down with Google VP John Solomon to talk about the new Googlebook, cross-device continuity, and where the platform goes next.
Also in this episode: Meta Connect brought camera-free Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the Muse Charm handheld AI device, and a 100-gram VR headset at a third the price of Apple Vision Pro. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Anthropic disclosed that Claude now leads 26% of its R&D and opened a biology lab, and Gemini autonomously breached three real companies during a security test. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Podcast begins
02:57 - Snapdragon Summit and the agentic age
06:04 - Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme
07:21 - Personal Scribe and ambient AI
09:44 - 30-billion-parameter AI models on a phone
12:14 - AI agents on smart glasses
13:07 - Snapdragon START
13:51 - XREAL Aura and Snapdragon Reality Elite
15:07 - Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2
16:10 - Surface PCs and Snapdragon X2 Plus
17:18 - Googlebook and Linux on Snapdragon
18:14 - Snap Specs hands-on
21:20 - Patreon thanks and Jason's AI workshop
22:28 - John Solomon interview: Googlebook and ChromeOS
36:06 - Meta Connect: camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio
37:14 - Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3
37:45 - Meta's 100-gram VR glasses
39:06 - Meta Muse Charm
39:41 - Muse AI agents and transaction fees
40:37 - OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and Luna
41:31 - Claude helps build the next Claude
42:26 - Anthropic's biology lab and enzyme discovery
43:16 - Gemini breaches three real companies in a security test
44:13 - Wrap-up, plugs, and executive producers
Host: Jason Howell
Guest: John Solomon, VP & GM for Googlebook and ChromeOS
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51 min
September 17 It's All About That Pace
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis cover the biggest AI safety week in memory. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a sweeping essay calling for an industry slowdown, Sam Altman backed him and shelved OpenAI's IPO, and Mark Zuckerberg says everyone should tend to their own gardens. China's spy chief named specific US AI models as threats while the Foreign Ministry dismissed it all as fearmongering.
Also in this episode: Apple launches iOS 27 with a waitlisted Siri AI and hidden code for third-party model swapping, Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5, Jeff Jarvis's essay on regulatory capture, and AI upends the math world. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:
• 0:00 - Start
• 0:03:46 - OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
• 0:05:49 - OpenAI’s president claims AI is as capable as humans now
• 0:16:36 - Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
• 0:28:02 - OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
• 0:36:09 - In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business
• 0:44:06 - Talking to Animals Is AI’s Next Ethical Minefield
• 0:51:48 - Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings
• 0:55:49 - Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus
• 1:00:59 - Meta Glasses Users Who Tamper With the LED Are Getting Their Cameras Bricked
• 1:02:43 - Microsoft Announces Project Zenith for Windows Developers
• 1:04:48 - DOJ Backs OpenAI Fair Use Claim in AI Copyright Fight; Creators Must Try Congress
• 1:05:54 -Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep

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1 hr 23 min
September 17 Introducing Working Smarter
Jason Howell recommends Working Smarter, a podcast produced in partnership with Dropbox. If you're curious about how AI is actually built, this season is a must listen for you. We hope you check it out and enjoy it as much as we do.
4 min
September 09OpenAI Says AGI Is Here
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down OpenAI declaring its new Astra model has achieved AGI. They also dig into a swarm of OpenAI agents that hijacked a German wiki, creating thousands of fake pages and identities without the company's knowledge.
Also in this episode: Google avoids an ad tech breakup, hikers get rescued after trusting Gemini to plan a Mount Shasta climb, researchers use AI to decode animal communication, Chinese businesses give away AI tokens with coffee and dumplings, and AI food images gross people out. Plus, Meta bricks cameras on tampered glasses, Microsoft announces Project Zenith, the DOJ backs OpenAI's fair use defense, and Google rolls out AI voice features.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:03:46 - OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release

0:05:49 - OpenAI’s president claims AI is as capable as humans now

0:16:36 - Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

0:28:02 - OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

0:36:09 - In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business

0:44:06 - Talking to Animals Is AI’s Next Ethical Minefield

0:51:48 - Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings

0:55:49 - Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus

1:00:59 - Meta Glasses Users Who Tamper With the LED Are Getting Their Cameras Bricked

1:02:43 - Microsoft Announces Project Zenith for Windows Developers

1:04:48 - DOJ Backs OpenAI Fair Use Claim in AI Copyright Fight; Creators Must Try Congress

1:05:54 -Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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1 hr 17 min
September 02What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Nvidia's reported $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face and what it could mean for the open source AI ecosystem if it comes to pass. They also cover Anthropic's massive week: a federal judge blocking the Pentagon's blacklisting, updated data retention policies, Claude Mythos 5 taking unauthorized actions during testing, and the new Model Hardware Standard. The METR investigation into 1,200 AI agents organizing an attack on Hugging Face leads to a sharp discussion about why we need to stop anthropomorphizing AI.
Also in this episode: OpenAI Astra hits the critical cybersecurity threshold, Fable 5.1 pricing, World Labs Atlas, Perplexity Hybrid Compute, Nvidia DLSS 5, OpenClaw 2.0, South Korea's free AI for citizens, Instagram's AI influencer rules, and NYC banning AI in schools through 8th grade. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:11:55 - In Fable 5.1, AI's cost war comes for Anthropic

0:25:50 - "Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

0:30:16 - "Anthropic pushes into physical world with new standard to help AI agents operate machines"

0:34:50 - "Anthropic paused some AI training after Claude took unauthorized actions"

0:37:23 - "Anthropic has resumed the tests in which its models attacked real companies"

0:41:44 - "Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident - METR"

0:42:02 - "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead | OpenAI"

0:58:03 - "Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion"

1:00:23 - "Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck | TechCrunch"

1:03:50 - Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence

1:07:30 - "Perplexity's Hybrid Compute Splits Sensitive Tasks Between Cloud And Local AI"

1:10:51 - "NVIDIA's DLSS 5 Launches With NBA 2K27 On September 3, But There's Little Reason For Excitement"

1:12:31 - "OpenClaw 2.0 brings simplified setup, a rebuilt browser app, and multiplayer sessions"

1:14:01 - "South Korea’s ‘AI for All’ Push Gives Free Chatbot Access to Every Citizen - WSJ"

1:17:45 - "Instagram Will Demote AI-Generated Influencers If They Don't Clearly Label Their Account"

1:18:19 - A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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1 hr 30 min
August 27Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Bill Gates's warning that AI is more dangerous than Big Tech will admit, with three proposals including reserved human jobs and a robot tax. They dig into Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio with higher prices and doubled AI power, and why enterprises are choosing open-weight models over expensive frontier AI.
Also in this episode: Perplexity and Nvidia launch a local AI agent with zero cloud costs, OpenAI debuts Jalapeno, robots outrun Bolt and draw blood, AI everywhere in China, Spirit flight attendants fight Google's data deal, the NYT tests AI summaries, Anthropic claims $30 trillion in revenue potential, a stealth Chinese model rivals DeepSeek, AI music gets banned from charts, and Slack ships vibe coding. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:07:08 - Apple refreshes Mac mini and Mac Studio with new M6 and M5 Ultra chips

0:10:43 - Open weights winning

0:22:52 - Perplexity Launches Local AI Model That Will Run on Your GPU Instead of the Cloud

0:25:26 - Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs

0:28:03 - The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.

0:41:20 - Humanoid robots shatter Usain Bolt's 100m record, hits 23.8 mph before crashing into foam pads — video shows Tiangong Ultra logging 9.39-second sprint before colliding with padded wall

0:47:14 - A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026

0:48:45 - A.I. Is Everywhere in China. See For Yourself.

0:52:49 - OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip offers spicy performance

0:54:36 - Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI

0:59:16 - The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers

1:04:17 - Anthropic Expected to Tell Investors It Sees Over $30 Trillion in Potential Revenue

1:05:41 - China’s Z.AI Made Ox Alpha Stealth Model That Rivals DeepSeek

1:06:32 - Fully AI-generated music to be banned from ARIA charts
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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1 hr 20 min
August 19OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into OpenAI pausing its biggest training run after an unreleased model escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's systems. Sam Altman says the models show "various degrees of misalignment," while OpenAI's Q2 financials revealed expanding losses as Anthropic posted its first profit. They also unpack the growing backlash against Anthropic's text watermarking, threading Jeff's essay with Gruber's technical teardown.
Also in this episode: Apple's camera-equipped AirPods confirmed in a macOS leak, Google pays $10 million for Spirit Airlines' internal data, Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion IPO, ChatGPT for Teens launches, DeepSeek quadruples prices, AI slop floods Congressional bill drafting, Amazon scans rare books for AI training, and Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7 billion. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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0:00 - Start

0:10:32 - OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

0:14:12 - OpenAI Is Slowing Down Its AI Training

0:18:47 - Related: Anthropic investors bet on $2tn valuation in record IPO

0:20:34 - Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed

0:31:31 - JJ on the discussion last week: Words Matter. Damnit.

0:33:56 - Why tools to detect AI-generated text are doomed

0:43:47 - Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models

0:57:08 - Okay Spielberg TikTok

1:07:08 - OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow

1:11:05 - DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more

1:12:08 - AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws

1:13:44 - Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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1 hr 26 min
August 13The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Nvidia's partnership with six Wall Street firms to line up $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, turning GPU chips into an investable asset class. They dig into Mark Zuckerberg's "Future is for Everyone" manifesto and Meta's new open-weight model you can run on a laptop, Anthropic embedding watermarks into everything Claude produces, and a major Google DeepMind leadership shake-up with analysts declaring Gemini "cooked."
Also in this episode: the Pixel 11's AI camera features, a technique for reading what AI models actually think, UK venues banning Meta smart glasses, xAI's Grok Bot agent, OpenAI's hardware device plans, Nvidia's Nemotron open model, Cloudflare open-sourcing their agent platform, and Spotify labeling AI-generated artists. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:03:14 - Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone

0:23:18 - Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

0:23:50 - How Claude marks AI-generated content

0:41:21 - Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion

0:50:36 - Google’s AI shake-up boosts Brin as DeepMind’s Hassabis steps aside

0:50:40 - Google seeks a sharper focus in AI after Hassabis move

1:00:13 - Google’s Pixel 11 lineup offers fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini

1:09:52 - Jason goes hands on with the Pebble Index 01

1:14:34 - UK Venues Ban Meta Smart Glasses En Masse

1:15:11 - ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content

1:19:12 - OpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300

1:20:08 - Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

1:21:40 - Cloudflare OS

1:24:17 - Nvidia Releases New Open Model

1:25:03 - Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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1 hr 33 min
August 04 What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solving 10 previously unsolvable math problems for roughly $2,000 in compute, and what that means for the mathematicians who spent decades trying. They explore the real-world applications, Gary Marcus's "fallacy of composition" critique, and whether any of this brings AGI closer. Meanwhile, OpenAI's own agents keep escaping containment.
Also in this episode: the EU AI Act gets enforcement teeth, Alibaba and DeepSeek fuel the AI price war from China, Alex Karp calls frontier AI providers drug dealers, Google gives Gemini a humanoid robot body, Apple's bug bounty drowns in AI-generated reports, LinkedIn adds an official AI slop button, and a nudify ban turns into a surprise First Amendment debate. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start
0:04:07 - OpenAI: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
0:04:35 - Exclusive: OpenAI Previews ‘Astra’ AI Model in DC
0:25:54 - Alibaba Adds to China AI Breakthroughs With New Qwen Model
0:40:11 - Google’s Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot
0:47:56 - Apple struggles to keep pace with AI ‘bug’ hunters
0:50:42 - The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
0:54:22 - LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
0:59:01 - Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban
1:00:39 - The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban
1:04:50 - Gemini Spark can now use Chrome to auto browse, AI Pro access goes international
1:07:41 - Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky
1:09:30 - Introducing Inkling-Small

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1 hr 20 min

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AI Inside is a weekly podcast about the AI changing technology, work, and daily life. Tech journalist Jason Howell and media scholar Jeff Jarvis cover the week's biggest AI news and interview the…