AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry's most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI's impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.
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This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into PHP2Shell, a pair of critical PHP bugs that sat in the code for more than a decade until AI helped find them, sending governments scrambling to pull websites offline. Then they look at people using Claude to make their smart TVs dumb again, synth fans vibe-coding new firmware onto old gear, and a researcher who says AI’s black box was never as tangled as we thought. Also in this episode: Meta’s Muse Spark Open, Nvidia’s DSX POD and OpenShell, DHS ordering DeepSeek out of federal systems, a Muse privacy leak, Disney’s Character.AI bankruptcy play, and Reflection’s Beam. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Show intro
00:12:46 - PHP2Shell: AI finds critical PHP bugs · Related
00:21:49 - AI agents strip ads from smart TVs
00:33:29 - Vibe-coded firmware for music gear
00:40:07 - Goodfire: neural networks may be more readable · Related · Research
00:50:26 - Meta opens Muse Spark · Related
00:54:09 - Nvidia DSX POD targets data-center efficiency
00:58:11 - Nvidia OpenShell for AI agents
00:59:42 - DHS orders DeepSeek removed from federal systems
01:02:43 - Meta Muse privacy exposure
01:04:19 - Muse downloads surge as ChatGPT slips
01:06:06 - Disney and Character.AI
01:07:21 - Reflection Beam
01:08:07 - Anthropic AI safety bill
01:10:17 - Bill Gross and AI-generated startup ideas
01:15:25 - Wrap-up and where to follow
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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Is AI Really Bringing the End of Software?
2026/10/15
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis ask whether we're witnessing the end of software, as developer Brandon Thomas uses Claude to build free, open-source clones of Microsoft Office and Adobe's Creative Suite while AI-decompiled versions of Halo, GTA, and Call of Duty run right in a browser tab. They also dig into OpenAI's release of 722 AI-written math papers and the backlash from mathematicians.
Also in this episode: Jason shares his early access experience with Gemini 4 Argon, Meta launches its closed Muse Wonder models, the FBI arrests an OpenAI engineer accused of planting a hidden recording device, Anthropic warns about AI self-replicating on smart TVs, and Google Play opens up to personal vibe-coded apps. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Cold open and episode preview
00:00:44 - Welcome: AI, SI and wasting tokens
00:05:15 - Muse remembers yesterday’s conversation
00:07:13 - Why Jason turned off Muse’s email access
00:10:51 - AI clones Adobe and Microsoft Office
00:27:47 - AI decompiles games into browser ports
00:30:25 - OpenAI’s math papers and the future of mathematiciansRelated: Math results: promise and verification · Beyond the math results · Mathematicians’ reaction · Early-career researchers’ concerns
00:47:18 - Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily
00:48:34 - Gemini 4 Argon: Jason’s early hands-onRelated: Argon’s paid rollout
00:56:25 - Meta Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder FullRelated: Muse Wonder: Meta announcement
00:59:50 - An OpenAI employee is accused of bugging a conference roomRelated: Recording-device allegations
01:03:14 - Cupertino TV-series detour
01:04:00 - Anthropic warns about self-replicating AI on smart devices
01:06:44 - Google Play supports private vibe-coded apps
01:08:01 - Nvidia–Reflection and Amazon–Decart acquisition talksRelated: Amazon–Decart talks
01:10:27 - Character.AI’s reported bankruptcy and Disney deal
01:11:40 - Aurora: an AI concierge for the ultra-wealthy
01:12:35 - Tech films, The Social Reckoning and Saturday Night Live
01:16:02 - Wrap-up and Jeff’s new website
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model
2026/10/08
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European data centers, and Reflection AI’s Apache-licensed Beam comes from a team of DeepMind veterans, with both aiming at the Chinese labs that have dominated open AI.
Also in this episode: Ghost’s $3,499 personal AI computer and Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark, Meta’s Muse building profiles of everyone in your life, XREAL’s Aura pricing, Utah letting AI prescribe acne medication, OpenAI’s textGrain watermarks and ChatGPT image ads, and Nano Banana 2.1. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Cold open and episode preview
00:02:57 - Mistral Large 4: Le Chonk and open-weight AIRelated: Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals | TechCrunch · Why Mistral's 1T model is a hedge against lock-in | The Deep View · Mistral: "There is no doom scenario" · Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
00:16:37 - Reflection AI releases Beam
00:22:26 - Patreon thanks and AI Inside Daily
00:23:39 - Ghost Core: a $3,499 personal AI computer
00:30:00 - Ramageddon, Qualcomm and the cost of local AI
00:31:40 - Nvidia’s 64GB DGX Spark
00:33:32 - Who needs an AI computer? Libraries and small businesses
00:38:22 - AI for democracy and public benefits
00:41:40 - Trying Meta Muse as a proactive assistant
00:43:22 - Muse profiles your friends and family
00:50:44 - Build your own Muse Gadgets
00:51:35 - XREAL Aura pricing and the market for XR glassesRelated: I Put on Meta and Xreal’s XR Glasses. Face Computers Are Finally Getting Good
00:57:24 - Nolla Health: AI prescriptions for acne in Utah
01:00:58 - Google AI Edge Foresight: on-device notes
01:02:20 - OpenAI TextGrain text watermarks
01:03:05 - Visual ads in ChatGPT and the attention economy
01:05:21 - Google’s Nano Banana 2.1
01:06:26 - SpaceXAI becomes SpaceXSI
01:07:09 - Wrap-up: Jeff Jarvis and PodtuneupRelated: Podtuneup
Also discussed: Jeff: With AI, Sharing Is Caring
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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The Proactive AI Agent Race is On
2026/10/01
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 PlatformRelated: 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 accordRelated: 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 commitmentsRelated: 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 impressionRelated: The Dario SNL video
56:06 - AMD, World Labs, and Fei-Fei Li
58:25 - Manus 2.0 and CueRelated: Introducing Manus 2.0: Cue
01:00:33 - Gemini replaces Gems with Skills
01:02:09 - Google pays publishers for AI OverviewsRelated: 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 spaceRelated: 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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Qualcomm Wants Its AI Chips On Every Device
2026/09/25
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 HowellGuest: John Solomon, VP & GM for Googlebook and ChromeOS
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It's All About That Pace
2026/09/17
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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OpenAI Says AGI Is Here
2026/09/09
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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What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face
2026/09/02
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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Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI
2026/08/27
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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OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped
2026/08/19
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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The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts
2026/08/13
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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What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians
2026/08/04
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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AI Is Eating Its Own Tail
2026/07/30
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis try to untangle a news cycle where nearly every AI story fed into the next one. Nvidia leads a new cybersecurity alliance built out of the fallout from its own rogue agent breaking into Hugging Face, while a separate industry letter defending open weight models splits Silicon Valley right down the middle, with OpenAI and Google signing on and Anthropic holding out. Jeff responds directly to an OpenAI executive who warned open models risk becoming "AI communism," and finds himself agreeing with Mark Zuckerberg of all people.Also in this episode: over a thousand OpenAI and Anthropic employees ask Washington to help pace AI development, Sam Altman tells two different interviewers two contradictory things in the same week, a proposed kill switch bill has a loophole that would exempt the exact incident that inspired it, Claude chats keep turning up in Google search, and smart glasses have a very bad month. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start
0:07:52 - "Nvidia Leads Defense of Open-Source AI With New Cybersecurity Initiative - WSJ"
0:13:36 - "NVIDIA Launches 'Open Secure AI Alliance' Initiative To Improve Cyber Defense"
0:17:08 - More Than 1,100 AI Workers Call for US to Pace Tech Growth
0:17:44 - Adam Thierer response
0:18:59 - Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
0:22:55 - AI Communism - Jeff Jarvis
0:27:33 - The AI Future Is for Everyone
0:35:40 - An AI kill switch solves for the wrong problem
0:46:13 - "People Found Crypto Wallet Data in Claude Chats Indexed by Google"
0:52:04 - Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of Independent Work
0:59:53 - Amazon Phases Out Some AI Models, Advances Others
1:03:26 - MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents
1:05:08 - Meta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humans
1:06:32 - Meta glasses banned by Comic-Con promoter after 'secret filming'
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
2026/07/23
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack a wild security disclosure from OpenAI and Hugging Face, where GPT-5.6 Sol found a zero-day vulnerability, broke out of its sandbox, and hacked Hugging Face's servers to steal the answer key to its own evaluation. They also dig into Moonshot's Kimi K3, the free Chinese model that got so popular it maxed out its own GPU capacity and sent Washington into a policy spiral over whether to panic or compete.Also in this episode: Google's new Gemini Flash models and the still-missing Gemini 3.5 Pro, publishers like USA Today and People Inc. weighing whether to block Google search entirely, Netflix revealing 300 titles used generative AI this year, AI companies buying and destroying millions of old books for training data, Samsung's AI glasses, the Suno hack, 1Password letting Claude log in for you, Thinking Machines' Inkling model, and NotebookLM becoming Gemini Notebook. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start
0:03:36 - OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by one of its models
0:13:42 - Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
0:16:34 - Moonshot’s Kimi AI Model Sets Off Anxiety in the US - Bloomberg
0:20:41 - Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball
0:29:36 - US, China to hold AI talks in September, sources say
0:35:15 - Google Ships New Gemini Flash Models, But Pro Is Still Missing
0:35:31 - Google Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal Goals
0:54:03 - Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI
0:54:27 - Netflix Co-CEO Explains How Gen-AI Was Used in 300 Different Titles: ‘We Believe It Is Going to Enhance Their Abilities’
0:56:45 - AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
1:01:44 - A closer look at the upcoming Samsung AI glasses
1:03:53 - Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
1:06:06 - 1Password now lets Claude sign in to websites without seeing your passwords
1:07:25 - Thinking Machines: Inkling: Our open-weights model
1:08:48 - Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets
2026/07/16
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, including text messages showing a former Apple engineer accessing confidential files after leaving for OpenAI. They also dig into GPT-5.6's triple-model launch, Fidji Simo stepping down from her number two role, and Demis Hassabis proposing a federal standards body for frontier AI modeled after financial regulators.Also in this episode: the White House unveils "Gold Eagle," a Treasury-led AI cyber threat clearinghouse. Nearly 200 economists and Nobel laureates warn that AI could cause unprecedented economic upheaval. Anthropic's new ad campaign unsettles viewers. Meta pulls its Instagram AI image generation tool three days after launch. Plus New York pauses data center permits, Grok Build gets caught uploading entire Git repos, Google Images gets a personalized redesign, and Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start
0:01:50 - Apple Sues OpenAI for Trade Secret Theft in Pivotal Case
0:06:44 - OpenAI Unaware of ‘Any Evidence’ Showing Apple Lawsuit Has Merit
0:07:57 - OpenAI’s First Device Will Be Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion
0:14:35 - OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work tool
0:16:40 - OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Work agent, GPT-5.6 models now available
0:27:09 - OpenAI’s No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-Up
0:29:54 - A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age
0:32:37 - White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats
0:50:58 - Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out
0:57:43 - Meta's new AI image maker draws fire over consent
- Meta Suspends AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash
0:58:55 - New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium
1:00:05 - Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
1:01:05 - Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
1:02:32 - Anthropic is giving teachers free access to premium Claude features, details here
Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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BKP2600 2026/03/13
Great AI topics and Interviews
Jason and Jeff cover relevant and timely topics each week with clear and thoughtful discourse. They also add great interviews with industry thought l...
★★★★★
Jeffrey Marraccini 2026/03/05
Always insightful along with some amazing interviews
Jason and Jeff use their vast networks to gather news about AI, well, inside <grin> so many aspects of technology and our lives. The two of them have ...
★★★★★
Tom Roughley 2026/03/05
The Top Authority in AI News and Information
Jason and Jeff lead weekly conversations on the future of AI, its usage and its potential. The information is essential for anyone who works in the in...
★★★★★
The Apple Loyalest👍 2025/05/18
Love AI Inside!!!
I have listened to this Podcast since the first episode!!! I really enjoy the content/interviews that are covered each week. I have read Co-Intellig...
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Tim Epperson 2025/05/17
Informative and entertaining
Jason and Jeff do a great job of keeping us up to date on the latest AI news. They are not necessarily self professed experts but stay one step ahead ...
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CMK4211 2025/04/16
Fantastic Approach to AI
I currently listen to three other AI shows, but I believe Inside AI offers the most comprehensive and informative perspective on the subject. They con...
★★★★★
S3th.me 2024/05/28
Huge fan of Jason and Jeff
I've been a fan of Jason Howell's since the BOL days. I've been a fan of Jeff Jarvis since he first appeared on the TWiT Network way back when.
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★★★★★
RichardScully 2024/04/19
Outstanding Real World AI Discussion
I love tuning in to their weekly AI discussions; they're practical and easily digestible. Their thorough research ensures accuracy and provides valuab...
★★★★★
@Turtle_Island_Wobbly on Masto 2024/02/21
You can’t do better than AI Inside
If you want a podcast that tracks the fast-changing world of AI, you can’t do better than “AI Inside”, hosted by Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis.
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scotthilt 2024/02/14
Cracking Open the Black Box: A 5-Star Review of AI Inside
If you're looking for a podcast that dives deep into the fascinating and complex world of AI, look no further than "AI Inside," hosted by the dynamic ...