AI Inside

We Got Slopped in 2025

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack AI consolidation as Nvidia licenses Groq's fast inference chips and Meta buys Manus for $2 billion. Growing anti-AI sentiment over jobs, mental health, and politics emerges alongside OpenAI's high-stakes preparedness role. Finally, Jason and Jeff reflect on 2025's jagged progress and 2026's agent and surveillance shifts.


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CHAPTERS:

  • 0:00 - Start
  • 3:27 - Nvidia, joining Big Tech deal spree, to license Groq technology, hire executives
  • 4:50 - Explaining the Groq deal
  • 15:11 - Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about
  • 16:50 - 3 reasons buying Manus could give Meta a much-needed AI boost
  • 27:41 - An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It?
  • Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit?
  • 29:46 - Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’
  • 45:11 - ‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI
  • 47:15 - * Sell It Before You Make It: Revolutionizing E-Commerce with Personalized AI-Generated Items
  • 51:27 - * What Human-Horse Interactions may Teach us About Effective HumanAI Interactions
  • 52:27 - * FakeParts: a New Family of AI-Generated DeepFakes
  • 55:45 - Karpathy's year in review
  • 58:37 - https://hbr.org/2025/12/the-hbr-charts-that-help-explain-2025
  • 1:04:29 - Jason:
    1. Love/Hate and Confusion (people don't know how they really feel about AI)
    2. General agents show potential but need a LOT of work
    3. AI for companionship
  • 1:05:39 - Jason:
    1. How productive ARE we really?
    2. AI Shopping moves beyond the demo
    3. A budding surveillance problem

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