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April 15 Zuckerberg's AI Clone Is on the Clock
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into the AI stories you couldn't miss: Zuckerberg reportedly built a digital clone of himself to sit in on company meetings, Apple is quietly developing premium AI smartglasses in four frame styles for 2027, and the Wayback Machine is facing a real threat as major news organizations block it over AI training concerns.
Also in this episode: OpenAI released a cybersecurity model to a small group of trusted partners, Google launched a desktop AI app, Gemini for Mac, Chrome Skills, and Gemini Notebooks all in one week, shoe brand Allbirds sold for $39 million and rebranded as AI compute company NewBird AI, and a 17-year-old in India built a human-only chatbot that hit 25 million visitors. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:
0:03:00 - Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras
0:13:41 - Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
0:22:06 - OpenAI Releases Cyber Model to Limited Group in Race With Mythos
0:25:07 - Like Anthropic, OpenAI Will Share Latest Technology Only With Trusted Companies
0:26:29 - The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
0:33:25 - Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider, because of course it is
0:40:43 - Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun
0:48:40 - ‘Google app for desktop’ launches on Windows
0:49:23 - The Gemini app is now on Mac
0:51:31 - How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
0:52:30 - Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
0:55:11 - Try notebooks in Gemini to easily keep track of projects
0:56:56 - Anthropic scales up with enterprise features for Claude Cowork and Managed Agents
0:57:29 - Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents
0:58:27 - OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

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1 hr 7 min
April 08Does Witholding Claude Mythos Even Matter?
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Anthropic's locked-down Mythos cybersecurity AI, OpenAI's New Deal-style economic policy vision, OpenAI's controversial podcast acquisition, the dueling takes on Google AI Overviews accuracy, a vibe-coded startup hitting $401 million in year one, and a speed round covering Broadcom's compute deal, Amazon's AI-era S3 update, Android XR spatial features, and Netflix's VOID video model.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:01:00 - Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’

0:18:34 - OpenAI's Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age

0:19:03 - What to Know About OpenAI’s Ideas for a World With ‘Superintelligence’

0:27:49 - OpenAI isn’t just buying a podcast — it’s buying influence

0:30:44 - Why OpenAI’s Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy

0:40:39 - Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds

0:41:46 - Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour

0:45:34 - How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

0:52:15 - Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute

0:52:25 - Broadcom agrees to expanded chip deals with Google, Anthropic

0:53:20 - Amazon revamps S3 cloud storage for the AI era, removing a key barrier for apps and agents

0:54:18 - 5 new features for Android XR

0:57:14 - Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor
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1 hr 5 min
April 01Two Leaks, One Week
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Anthropic's back-to-back data leaks exposing Claude Code source and a secret frontier model called Mythos, OpenAI killing its adult chatbot and shuttering Sora, a record $122 billion funding round ahead of IPO, Apple letting third-party AI plug into Siri, university students fighting AI with typewriters, quantum researchers warning encryption could crack sooner than expected, and new AI video models from Google and ByteDance.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 - Start

0:09:31 - Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

0:17:59 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence

0:20:57 - Can we talk for a second about my time with Claude Cowork?

0:38:09 - The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT

0:43:53 - OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO

0:45:13 - Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants Beyond ChatGPT in iOS 27

0:50:26 - College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

0:54:17 - University students fight artificial intelligence with vintage typewriters

1:02:14 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence

1:05:49 - Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite

1:06:45 - ByteDance's new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut

1:08:03 - Meta launches two new Ray-Ban glasses designed for prescription wearers

1:10:14 - Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps

1:12:50 - Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

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1 hr 24 min
March 26OpenAI Cleans House Ahead of IPO
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis cover OpenAI shutting down Sora without warning, Disney's billion dollar deal evaporating with it, Claude gaining the ability to control your computer, ARM entering the chip market with Meta, and a federal judge calling the Pentagon's Anthropic ban an attempt to cripple the company.
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0:00:00 - Start

0:01:08 - OpenAI Scraps Sora Video Platform Months After Launch

0:02:58 - OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment

0:08:08 - OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well

0:17:40 - @edzitron: This is something a company does when things are going well
0:18:07 - OpenAI to create desktop super app, combining ChatGPT app, browser and Codex app

0:19:56 - OpenAI bets on Altman-backed fusion startup

0:26:24 - Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer

0:37:25 - Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history

0:41:19 - Trump administration unveils national AI policy framework to limit state power

0:49:00 - Google confirms AI headline rewrites test in Search results

0:54:52 - U.S. Government’s Ban on Anthropic Looks Like Punishment, Judge Says

0:56:06 - Apple sets June date for WWDC 2026, teasing ‘AI advancements’

0:57:39 - Meta is secretly working on an AI detection tool after unleashing AI slop avalanche

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1 hr 9 min
March 20Tokens Are the Next Commodity
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Join Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis as they cover Nvidia's GTC expo and its trillion dollar AI chip ambitions, Meta's latest round of layoffs and its fading Metaverse, OpenAI acquiring Astral to sharpen its coding focus, and whether an AI resurrection of Val Kilmer for an indie film crosses any lines.
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0:00:00 - Start

0:04:20 - Nvidia Makes Trillion-Dollar Forecast at Annual Product Expo

0:07:26 - Nvidia Puts Groq LPU, Vera CPU And Bluefield-4 DPU Into New Data Center Racks

0:09:13 - Nvidia’s NemoClaw is OpenClaw with guardrails

0:10:19 - sama: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

0:20:56 - Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series

0:22:51 - DLSS 5 clearly overwrites game characters with AI beauty standards, but Nvidia says devs have 'artistic control'

0:30:46 - Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

0:34:37 - Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns

0:42:37 - OpenAI to Cut Back on Side Projects in Push to ‘Nail’ Core Business

0:49:46 - Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Movie — First Look (EXCLUSIVE)

0:56:45 - Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training

1:01:10 - Google’s Personal Intelligence feature is expanding to all US users

1:02:14 - You can now ask Google Maps ‘complex, real-world questions’ — and Gemini will answer

1:03:47 - Introducing “vibe design” with Stitch

1:04:31 - OpenAI's GPT-5.4 mini and nano launch - with near flagship performance at much lower cost

1:04:57 - Court temporarily allows Perplexity AI shopping 'agents' on Amazon

1:05:42 - Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now

1:06:48 - Microsoft’s New AI Health Tool Can Read Your Medical Records and Give Advice

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1 hr 17 min
March 11A Billion Dollar World Model Bet
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis invite Mike Elgan to dig into Yann LeCun's billion-dollar world models startup, Anthropic's federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense, Meta's acquisition of Moltbook and whether its AI agents were ever real, and new research on whether AI is causing worker burnout instead of relieving it.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Start

0:01:44 - Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1.03 billion for alternative AI approach

0:07:49 - AMI page with mission

0:17:55 - Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation

0:21:56 - OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government

0:25:51 - time cover

0:32:16 - Exclusive: Meta hires duo behind Moltbook

0:33:29 - No, the Singularity Hasn’t Arrived: The Truth About Moltbook

0:47:57 - Nvidia plans open-source AI agent platform ‘NemoClaw’ for enterprises

0:49:59 - Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done

0:51:38 - When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

1:02:58 - Amazon Wins Court Order Blocking Perplexity’s AI Shopping Bots

1:03:56 - Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI bot from shopping on Amazon in early test of agentic commerce

1:08:31 - Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive

1:09:54 - Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out

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1 hr 19 min
March 05OpenAI's Opportunistic and Sloppy Deal
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack the Pentagon's fallout with Anthropic over military AI, OpenAI's rushed deal to replace them, Block cutting 40% of staff, blaming AI, Perplexity launching a multi-agent computer system, a whistleblower exposing Meta smart glasses privacy issues, and the Supreme Court rejecting AI copyright claims.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Start

0:01:59 - A ‘Fight About Vibes’ Drove the Pentagon’s Breakup with Anthropic

0:05:34 - OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’

0:05:34 - SAMA's prevaricating, planicked posts

0:12:33 - Anthropic Nears $20 Billion Revenue Run Rate Amid Pentagon Feud

0:28:04 - Jack Dorsey’s Latest Far-Out Bet: An AI Future With Fewer Employees

0:28:36 - Jack Dorsey’s Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake

0:30:16 - The Week the Dreaded AI Jobs Wipeout Got Real

0:31:20 - Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now.

0:37:21 - Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

0:39:16 - Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

0:40:55 - Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred

0:48:02 - Restaurant uses AI to make salty otter logo; gets slammed

0:50:15 - Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

0:54:22 - The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art

0:59:58 - Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

1:03:16 - Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

1:03:38 - GPT‑5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations

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1 hr 12 min
February 28When Agents Negotiate With Agents with Microsoft Research's Saleema Amershi
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Saleema Amershi is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, where she leads the teams behind AutoGen and Magentic-One. She joins the AI Inside podcast to discuss what happens when AI agents stop working in isolation and start collaborating, transacting, and negotiating with each other at scale. We cover the challenges of multi-agent orchestration, why current frontier models show a dangerous first-proposal bias that favors speed over quality, and how her team built the Magentic Marketplace to simulate agent-to-agent commerce. We also dig into agent manipulation, the tension between walled gardens and open ecosystems, and what duty of care means when an AI is acting on your behalf.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Podcast Start

01:46 - Introduce Saleema Amershi

0:02:04 - Talk about the challenges surrounding the orchestration of these agents together. And what limits this collaboration today, is it a technical limitation or something deeper?

0:05:10 - OpenClaw perspectives

0:06:42 - From your research, why would these projects fall apart? And actually, are companies setting themselves up for failure by moving too fast?

0:07:53 - What IS Magentic AI

0:12:16 - Collaboration between humans, AI and the agents.

0:18:45 - Agents eliminate the scarcity of attention

0:20:04 - You found that these frontier models that we're often told are ready to handle complex tasks like these were getting stunted by too many choices. They were showing a strong bias toward whatever option showed up first regardless of the quality. So, what's going on there?

0:24:07 - The first-proposal bias

0:33:25 - You co-published 18 guidelines for human-AI interaction back in 2019. When you look at those original guidelines through the lens of what you're working on today, what still holds up and what could you not have anticipated back then?

0:36:58 - What are the lessons for marketers and sellers?

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47 min
February 25 It's Hard Out There For a Lobster
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On this week’s AI Inside with Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis, I unpack the viral “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” memo, Anthropic’s claims of Claude distillation attacks, an OpenClaw inbox meltdown, Meta’s massive AMD chip bet, Samsung’s “Hey Plex” phones, Pomelli’s AI product shots, and Claude’s new Wall Street push.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Start
0:02:55 - THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
0:04:45 - Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street’s Deep Anxiety About AI Future
0:08:24 - IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
0:09:22 - Cybersecurity stocks drop for a second day as new Anthropic tool fuels AI disruption fears
0:20:00 - Anthropic: Detecting and preventing distillation attacks
0:24:19 - American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model
0:33:41 - Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI [Openclaw] Can Just Delete Your Stuff
0:37:39 - Google clamps down on Antigravity 'malicious usage', cutting off OpenClaw users in sweeping ToS enforcement move
0:41:52 - Jia Zhangke Creates AI Video With Seedance 2.0
0:42:29 - The video (translation CC available)
0:52:21 - Facebook owner Meta to buy AI chips from AMD in deal worth up to $100 billion
0:53:08 - Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power
0:54:13 - Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI
0:55:22 - Google: Create studio-quality marketing assets with Photoshoot in Pomelli
0:56:55 - Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR

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1 hr 2 min
February 12 How Smart Are Today’s Coding Agents?
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Claude Opus 4.6’s new role as a financial‑research engine, discuss how GPT‑5.3 Codex is reshaping full‑stack coding workflows, and explore Matt Shumer’s warning that AI agents will touch nearly every job in just a few years. We unpack how Super Bowl AI ads are reframing public perception, examine Waymo’s use of DeepMind’s Genie 3 world model to train autonomous vehicles on rare edge‑case scenarios, and also cover OpenAI’s ad‑baked free ChatGPT tiers, HBR’s findings on how AI expands workloads instead of lightening them, and new evidence that AI mislabels medical conditions in real‑world settings.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Start
0:01:59 - Anthropic Releases New Model That’s Adept at Financial Research
Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’
0:10:00 - Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex
0:14:42 - Something Big Is Happening
0:33:25 - Can these Super Bowl ads make Americans love AI?
0:36:52 - Dunkin’ Donuts digitally de-aged ‘90s actors and I’m terrified
0:39:47 - AI.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70mn in biggest-ever website name deal
0:42:11 - OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT, draws early attention from advertisers and analysts
0:48:27 - Waymo Says Genie 3 Simulations Can Help Boost Robotaxi Rollout
0:53:30 - AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
1:02:08 - As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
1:04:48 - Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own
1:06:53 - Google goes long with 100-year bond
1:09:18 - OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware

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1 hr 17 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…