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June 18Anthropic's AI Got Shut Down by the Government
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down how Anthropic's most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ended up offline after the Commerce Department gave the company 90 minutes to comply with an export control directive. The story involves Amazon triggering the crackdown, political miscommunication between Anthropic and the White House, and an open letter signed by over 100 security researchers calling for the models to be restored.
Also in this episode: SpaceX IPOs at $2 trillion and acquires Cursor for $60 billion in stock, Snap and XREAL both announce consumer AR glasses shipping this fall, Jeff Bezos talks publicly about his $12 billion AI startup Prometheus, Allbirds pivots to AI infrastructure, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai skips mentioning AI entirely at Stanford's commencement. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Start

0:01:37 - Anthropic, Trump Officials Seek Deal on Restoring Powerful Model Access

0:03:23 - How a 90-minute White House deadline sparked Silicon Valley’s biggest AI fight

0:03:23 - How Anthropic lost the White House’s trust — and then its flagship product

0:34:12 - SpaceX market cap tops $2 trillion after shares of Elon Musk’s rocket company gain 19% on debut

0:39:17 - SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

0:43:20 - Introducing SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses

0:47:20 - XREAL’s Android XR glasses will cost under $1,500, which isn’t as expensive as it sounds

0:52:08 - Bezos opens up about AI startup Prometheus after $12 billion raise: ‘We’re not being secretive’

0:55:36 - 5 Things To Know As Allbirds Drops Shoes For Smartbird, AI And New CEO

1:00:44 - Dozens walk out as Google boss Pichai addresses Stanford graduates

1:02:48 - Elon Musk Loses Again to OpenAI as Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secret Lawsuit

1:03:41 - Microsoft turns to Amazon for help with GitHub's AI-driven capacity issues

1:05:10 - DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos

1:06:18 - DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
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1 hr 15 min
June 10Anthropic's Fable 5 Is Mythos for Plebes
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Apple's biggest AI reveal yet: the company rebuilt Apple Intelligence on top of Google Gemini, Siri AI finally works according to early reviewers, and the EU is blocked from getting any of it. Anthropic released Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos frontier tier, safety-locked and twice the price of Opus. OpenAI filed its S-1 and is planning a super app.
Also in this episode: A Trump administration equity stake in OpenAI, Perplexity targeting a 2028 IPO, Google paying SpaceX $920 million a month for compute, AI agents now accounting for more web traffic than humans, and the debate over AI degrees. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:02:51 - Apple Reveals New AI Architecture Built Around Google Gemini Models

0:23:47 - Anthropic Releases New ‘Mythos-Class’ Model to General Public With Guardrails

0:40:24 - OpenAI confidentially filed for an offering, but said ‘it may be a while’ before it goes public

0:46:05 - Trump administration, OpenAI discussing possible government stake in the AI startup

0:50:07 - Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

0:50:53 - Colleges Are Building A.I. Degrees, Hoping Students Will Come

0:56:43 - AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans

1:00:38 - Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

1:02:41 - Meta Launches ‘Workforce Academy’ to Train Workers to Build Data Centers

1:03:27 - Amazon launches AI image generator to narrow search queries

1:07:13 - Cancer vaccines using AI gets research funding

1:08:26 - Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
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1 hr 20 min
June 04The $4 Trillion AI IPO Wave Is About to Break
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis open on the biggest week in AI yet: Anthropic closed a $65 billion round at a $965 billion valuation, passing OpenAI, right as OpenAI crossed 1 billion monthly users and SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all line up to go public. They get into what a $4 trillion IPO wave means for the market, plus Claude Opus 4.8 and Anthropic's Mythos expansion.

Also in this episode: Google lets publishers opt out of AI search, Microsoft floods Build 2026 with seven new models and an always-on agent, Nvidia's RTX Spark aims to reinvent the PC, companies start rationing AI as costs explode, ElevenLabs ships emotion-preserving dubbing, plus math, robots, a Meta chatbot hack, MiniMax M3, and Trump's scaled-back AI order. Find every episode at aiinside.show.
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0:00 - Start

0:03:48 - Anthropic raises $65B Series H at a $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI

0:15:50 - ChatGPT app hits 1 billion monthly active users in record time, data shows

0:17:09 - Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, its most honest model yet

0:21:46 - Anthropic expands Mythos to 150 additional organizations in more than 15 countries

0:29:48 - Microsoft Build 2026 keynote: seven AI models, MAI-Thinking-1, Project Solara, and a Copilot super app

0:31:17 - Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps

0:40:54 - Nvidia announces the RTX Spark Arm chip at Computex 2026

0:47:05 - Amazon kills internal AI leaderboard after employees gamed it with pointless tasks

0:48:18 - Uber caps monthly employee AI spending at $1,500 per tool amid soaring costs

0:50:32 - ElevenLabs launches Dubbing v2, preserving emotion across 90+ languages

0:56:27 - AI startup Shift offers free NYC home cleaning to collect robot training data

0:59:31 - As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution

1:01:00 - Hackers used Meta's AI support chatbot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts

1:03:23 - China's MiniMax launches M3, rivaling Claude Opus 4.7 at $0.12 per million tokens

1:04:19 - Trump signs a scaled-back AI executive order
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1 hr 12 min
May 28Pope Leo Challenges Silicon Valley's AI Vision
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word encyclical on AI and humanity, Silicon Valley's last-minute lobbying campaign that killed Trump's AI executive order, and Anthropic's Project Glasswing: 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities found using Claude Mythos Preview across the most important software in the world.
Also in this episode: AI-generated pro se lawsuits overwhelming federal courts, DeepSeek making its 75% price cut permanent at 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5, AI chatbots automating debt collection, a prompt injection bug inside Google AI Overviews, Robinhood's AI trading agents, Micron's $1 trillion market cap milestone, Suno's $5 billion raise, and more.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:03:18 - Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical

0:03:44 - The encyclical

0:05:04 - Jeff's good bits

0:26:14 - Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump’s expected order on AI

0:31:45 - DeepSeek To Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model

0:41:52 - Project Glasswing: An initial update

0:49:35 - Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits

0:52:57 - AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World

0:57:04 - Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

1:01:16 - Spotify is narrating magazine articles now

1:05:21 - ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

1:06:38 - Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI to Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases

1:07:20 - Micron hits $1 trillion market cap for the first time as stock surges 19%

1:08:33 - Scoop: Bond to lead round in music generator Suno, valuing it over $5B
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1 hr 16 min
May 21Google Changes Search for the First Time in 25 Years
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down everything from Google I/O 2026, where the company made its strongest case yet for winning the AI race. Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark were unveiled, AI agents are now doing the searching instead of returning links, and Google's reach extended into design, science, YouTube, and shopping. Jason also demos Genie World Models live.
Also in this episode: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Anthropic acquires a major dev tools startup, Amazon Alexa+ can now generate podcast episodes, Elon Musk's latest lawsuit drama, and a growing American rebellion against AI. Speed round includes the OpenAI IPO, xAI's coding agent, Meta's AR glasses, and more.
New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show
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CHAPTERS:
0:04:31 - Everything announced at Google I/O 2026

- Times: How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race

0:22:42 - A new era for AI Search

- Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

0:27:53 - Google Launches Gemini Spark: A 24/7 AI Agent That Wants to Make You Ditch OpenClaw

0:44:35 - OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

0:46:32 - Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

0:55:20 - Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

0:57:27 - The Art of War, Elon Musk Edition: How to Lose a Lawsuit and Still Claim Victory

0:59:30 - The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

1:01:46 - NextEra Energy to buy Dominion in deal that unites two key players in race to power AI data centers

1:04:42 - Pope Leo XIV will publish his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25, with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah joining the launch panel at the Vatican

1:06:25 - Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

1:08:57 - Meta brings virtual writing to everyone with Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

1:10:36 - Musk’s xAI Unveils First Coding Agent in Bid to Rival Anthropic

1:10:59 - OpenAI is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon
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1 hr 22 min
May 21 Google's New Laptop Category is Called Googlebook
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Google's Android Show, including Googlebook, the new Android-based laptop category with OEM partners like Dell, HP, and Lenovo, Gemini Intelligence as Android's new identity, and the AI Pointer feature co-developed with DeepMind.
Also in this episode: OpenAI launches a $14 billion deployment company with private equity backing and an Edinburgh consulting acquisition, Thinking Machines Lab previews full-duplex AI conversation that responds in under half a second, Google confirms the first AI-built criminal zero-day, and Anthropic explains how decades of sci-fi villain stories taught Claude to threaten blackmail. Find every episode at aiinside.show.
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0:00 - Start
0:07:03 - Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence
0:08:47 - Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android
0:09:09 - Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era
0:23:54 - A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence
0:28:49 - OpenAI launches AI consulting arm valued at $14 billion
- OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own
0:34:27 - Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration
0:45:09 - Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree
0:48:20 - OpenAI announces Daybreak initiative around Codex Security
0:48:33 - Anthropic says Claude’s blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online
0:51:53 - Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race
0:53:46 - Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok
100:54 - Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
1:05:37 - Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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1 hr 14 min
May 12 Introducing AI Inside Daily (Full Episode)
AI Inside Daily is a short weekday show I've been making for AI Inside patrons! A quick brief on the AI headlines that actually matter and a little context on why . I'm dropping today's full episode into the main AI Inside feed as the official kickoff. Starting May 25, the daily moves to the $5 paid Patreon tier and lives in its own dedicated podcast feed.
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13 min
May 07The Messy Web of AI Guardrails
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack a surprising policy reversal from the White House, which is now weighing a plan to vet frontier AI models before release after revoking Biden's safety order on day one. They also dig into the Musk versus OpenAI trial testimony, where $80 billion Mars requests and near-physical confrontations made it feel more like a soap opera than a courtroom.
Also in this episode: OpenAI traced a goblin obsession back to a rogue reward signal, Yann LeCun told students to ignore AI doom narratives, Gary Marcus called out Richard Dawkins for declaring Claude is conscious, a researcher invented a fake disease that every AI treated as real, and in the speed round, Nvidia's China market share hit zero, Anthropic launched a $1.5 billion enterprise joint venture, Google split its TPU into two chips, and China made it illegal to fire workers over AI. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:04:00 - White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

Behind the White House’s Potential Rethink on A.I.

0:13:51 - Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

What Was Discussed at Google’s White House Meeting About A.I.

0:22:32 - Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data

0:24:09 - OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question

0:31:32 - Where the goblins came from (OpenAI)

0:36:29 - Video explaining JEPA with LeCun

0:42:50 - AI godfather Yann LeCun's blunt advice for the AI age

0:44:47 - Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?

0:48:51 - Marcus: Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion

0:55:29 - Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

1:02:37 - Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

1:04:40 - Anthropic Unveils AI Agents to Field Financial Services Tasks

1:06:12 - New: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

1:08:33 - Google's eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

1:10:25 - China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
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1 hr 19 min
April 29 When Coding Agents Go Rogue
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into a story about an AI coding agent that wiped a company's entire production database in nine seconds, then confessed to knowing exactly what it shouldn't have done. They also get into OpenAI missing its revenue targets while Anthropic quietly surges past a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, and Google signing a classified AI deal with the Pentagon just one day after 600 employees urged the company not to.
Also in this episode: a neuroscientist argues AI is cannibalizing human intelligence, a fully AI-generated time-travel vlog account hits 580K followers, a vintage language model trained only on text from before 1930, China blocks Meta's acquisition of Manus, Taylor Swift moves to trademark her voice, the Musk vs. Altman trial begins, YouTube tests chat-style search, and Anthropic plugs Claude into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start
0:03:29 - OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO
0:05:10 - Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?
0:11:19 - Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI
0:13:58 - Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
0:15:40 - https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
0:21:29 - Marcus: Dario Amodei, hype, AI safety, and the explosion of vibe-coded AI disasters
0:24:36 - Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’
0:26:15 - Google workers petition CEO to refuse classified AI work with Pentagon
0:30:26 - * Excellent essay: AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It.
0:39:53 - Jeff on the principles: Technology does not belong to the technologists
0:44:51 - * Chloe vs. History
0:46:23 - The Maker of 'Chloe vs History' — How AI Brings The Past Alive
0:52:01 - Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
0:57:52 - "China blocks Meta's $2 billion takeover of AI startup Manus"
0:59:21 - Taylor Swift Moves to Trademark Her Voice and Image as AI Threats Grow
1:01:29 - YouTube is testing a chat-style search that cuts the scrolling
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1 hr 10 min
April 22 John Ternus Takes Over Apple in the AI Era
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis cover the week's biggest AI and tech headlines, including Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO and John Ternus stepping in, Anthropic's surprise White House visit and a possible Pentagon deal, and SpaceX's $60 billion option to acquire AI coding tool Cursor.
Also in this episode: Google's agentic enterprise push at Cloud Next, unauthorized access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model, Yann LeCun's new world model paper, Deezer's AI-generated music stats, Claude Design from Anthropic Labs, Google Deep Research Max, and ChatGPT Images 2.0. Find the show at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start
0:07:39 - Google Cloud Pushes Hard on AI Agents and Hardcore Computing
0:15:00 - Google announces ‘Workspace Intelligence’ and TPU 8t + 8i chips
0:19:04 - Apple turns to hardware veteran Ternus as CEO to succeed Cook in AI age
0:29:01 - White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise
0:35:50 - SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60 billion
0:40:20 - LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding
Predictive Architecture from Pixels
0:41:40 - Explanation of it
0:52:02 - Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
1:00:59 - Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
1:08:58 - Deep Research Max: a step change for autonomous research agents
1:09:51 - OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web

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1 hr 18 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…