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AI Inside

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis 132 Episodes Sep 17, 2026

AI Inside is a weekly podcast that explores how artificial intelligence is transforming technology, work, and daily life. Hosted by tech journalist Jason Howell and media scholar Jeff Jarvis, the show covers the biggest AI news each week and features interviews with key figures building AI systems, including product leaders from Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Past guests have included Turing Award winner Yann LeCun and Google SVP Nick Fox. New episodes are released every Wednesday.

Episodes

It's All About That Pace
It's All About That Pace Sep 17, 2026 4975 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 fearmonge
Introducing Working Smarter
Introducing Working Smarter Sep 17, 2026 193 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.
OpenAI Says AGI Is Here
OpenAI Says AGI Is Here Sep 9, 2026 4565 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 us
What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face
What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face Sep 2, 2026 5359 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 Hardwa
Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI
Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI Aug 27, 2026 4751 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: Perplexit
OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped
OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped Aug 19, 2026 5131 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 wa
The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts
The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts Aug 13, 2026 5573 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 m
What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians
What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians Aug 4, 2026 4748 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 esc
AI Is Eating Its Own Tail
AI Is Eating Its Own Tail Jul 30, 2026 4520 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 holdin
GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face Jul 23, 2026 4634 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 int
Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets
Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets Jul 16, 2026 4332 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
China May Lock Down Its Best AI Models
China May Lock Down Its Best AI Models Jul 9, 2026 4706 This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into a strange role reversal in AI, as Beijing weighs restricting overseas access to China's best models while DeepSeek races to build its own chip. They also get into OpenAI offering the US government a five percent stake to ease political pressure in Washington, and the first ransomware attack run entirely by an AI agent.Also in this episode: Alibaba ba

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