AI Inside
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
RAMageddon Reshapes Tech (And It's Not Pretty)
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into RAMageddon, the global memory shortage that just forced Apple to raise prices by 20% across Macs, iPads, and even the Apple TV. Jefferies warns memory prices will surge another 50% this quarter with no relief until 2028, GoPro says it may not survive, and IDC projects the largest smartphone market decline ever. Then both Anthropic and OpenAI released
Introducing Working Smarter
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.
Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis sit down with Liz Reid, VP and Head of Google Search, for a wide-ranging conversation about AI's transformation of the search product billions of people use every day. Liz makes the case that personalization could actually help small publishers find their exact audience rather than making them invisible, explains what the "ignore" bug revealed about how AI Ov
Meta's Data Center on Your Face
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis cover Meta's new $299 smart glasses and whether it's Glasshole 2.0 all over again, the Anthropic national security saga including the NSA red-team test that breached classified systems in hours, and Google losing Nobel Prize winner John Jumper to Anthropic and Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer to OpenAI in the same week.Also in this episode: Anthropic's ID v
Joelle Pineau on Why Sovereign AI Just Got Real
Days after the US government forced Anthropic to pull Mythos 5 and Fable 5 offline, Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pineau joins Jason Howell to react. The former Meta FAIR leader makes the case for sovereign AI, models that enterprises run on their own terms, on-premise and under their control, and explains why the shutdown was a wake-up call for everyone depending on a single provider.Also in thi
Anthropic'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 res
Anthropic'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 an
The $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: Goog
Pope 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 fed
Google 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: Andre
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 ac
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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The 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
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
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 restricte
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
Does 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 N
Two 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 soone
OpenAI 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
Tokens 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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A 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
OpenAI'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 rejectin
When 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 sc
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
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 p
What Are AI Agents Doing On Moltbook?
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down the rise of Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, and how it claims to let 1.5 million bots argue, joke, and organize like humans. We explore what it means when almost all of those agents are actually human‑driven proxies, and whether this is a playful experiment or
The Kleenex of AI
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On this week’s AI Inside, Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell test Google’s new Gemini-powered Auto-Browse Chrome agents, wonder whether Yahoo Scout really matters, question Apple’s Gemini-fueled Siri revamp and rumored AI pin, and explore Mozilla’s “rebel alliance” bet on open-source AI.
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All About AI Automation
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Join Jason Howell and Alfred Nutile as we break down Anthropic’s Claude Cowork desktop agent, OpenAI’s plan to monetize ChatGPT through ads, YouTube’s evolving strategy to curb AI slop, Alfred’s day-to-day building AI automations for clients, and rapid fire updates on AI water debates, Leg
Google DeepMind's Tulsee Doshi: Gemini 3, Deep Think's Unexpected Uses, Layer-Based Editing
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Tulsee Doshi is Senior Director and Head of Product for Gemini Models at Google DeepMind. She joins us to reveal how real-world usage is reshaping Google's AI roadmap in unexpected ways. We explore the surprising discovery that Deep Think excels at creative writing rather than just academic
OpenAI and Anthropic Battle for Health Systems
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On this week's AI Inside, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into Google's surprise rollout of Gemini Personal Intelligence, the sudden healthcare AI race between OpenAI and Anthropic, Apple's decision to power Siri with Gemini, Meta cutting over 1000 Reality Labs jobs, and Microsoft'
CES 2026: Smartglasses, Waveguide Tech, And AI Music Tools
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On this week’s AI Inside, Jason Howell takes CES 2026 as a test case for what happens when AI is treated (slightly) more like quiet infrastructure than flashy headline, as he walks through Samsung’s AI announcements, TCL’s Copilot powered Note A1 NXTPAPER tablet, Lumus' waveguide sma
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 o
Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET: What AGI Means Now, Open Source AI, and Compute Constraints
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Ben Goertzel, founder and CEO of SingularityNET, joins us to argue for an open path to AGI. We unpack what “open source” should include beyond code, how access to training data, pipelines, and compute shapes who can actually participate, and why “open weights” can still fall short. W
OpenAI Sheds the Red
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack OpenAI's rapid GPT-5.2 release and Image 1.5 upgrade amid its Code Red push, contrasted by Google's faster Gemini 3 Flash challenging benchmarks in reasoning and speed. Nvidia's Slurm acquisition and Nemotron 3 open models are explored for their ro
Is AI Search Hurting The Open Web? With Google's Nick Fox
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Nick Fox is the SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google, overseeing Search, Ads, and Commerce. He returns to the AI Inside podcast seven months after our Google I/O conversation when he declared "the web is thriving." In this follow-up, we press Fox on the publisher traffic debate
Phantom Datacenters
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google's XR prototypes and Meta's mixed reality delay, Nvidia's H200 chips cleared for China, the Agentic AI Foundation alliance, Meta's Limitless pendant acquisition, and Pebble's smart ring debut.
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Google XR Director Juston Payne: Project Aura, Android XR, Lessons from Google Glass
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Juston Payne is Google's Senior Director of Product Management for XR and the product mind behind Android XR and the newly announced Project Aura. He joins the AI Inside podcast to explain how Google plans to succeed where Google Glass fell short over a decade ago. We dig into why the smart
What a Difference Three Years Makes
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack Apple's new AI chief Amar Subramanya, ChatGPT's third birthday reflections, and how Silicon Valley is spoofing websites to train its AI agents without getting blocked by the real thing.
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Behind the Scenes of Nano Banana Pro
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google’s Nano Banana Pro launch and Jason's unique sit-down with the leaders of Gemini 3, Nvidia’s earnings amid AI bubble talks, Google’s TPU deal with Meta, and Warner Music’s Suno settlement. They also cover Trump’s Genesis Mission, Gmail AI concerns, Anthropic Opus 4.5, and Character AI’s age ban.
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Gemini 3 is Here
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google’s Gemini 3 multimodal AI with visual and interactive features, Microsoft’s AI Copilot launch across Windows, and Jeff Bezos’s new well-funded AI startup Project Prometheus focused on engineering and manufacturing.
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Inside Microsoft Agent 365: How AI Workers Will Be Secured, Identified, and Governed
Microsoft is introducing Agent 365, a new control plane for managing AI agents across the enterprise. Charles Lamanna, the executive leading Microsoft’s Business Apps and Agents division, joins us to explain the ideas behind the launch and why the company believes AI workers will soon be as common as apps or devices. We explore how agents already operate inside organizations, how identity and perm
What About... An OpenAI Bubble?
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Yann LeCun’s possible Meta exit, SoftBank unloading its Nvidia stake for an OpenAI investment, an AI-generated artist topping Billboard’s country chart, OpenAI’s talks with Washington over federal loan guarantees, Perplexity’s stance on companion chat bots, Apple reportedly licensing Google’s Gemini, Amazon launching Kindle Translate, and Google Photos expandin
Amazon vs Perplexity: Who Controls the Agent?
Join Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis as they unpack the Amazon-Perplexity legal fight, OpenAI’s massive cloud computing agreement, Coca-Cola’s AI-powered ads return for the holidays, and Jason reflects on two key reasons why he keeps returning to the Sora platform.
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OpenAI's Path to IPO
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On this episode, Jeff and I break down OpenAI’s restructuring for profit, look at Qualcomm's new AI200 chips, discuss why Amazon’s office job reductions might not be entirely about AI, and share Adobe’s latest generative Firefly 5 updates from Adobe Max 2025.
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Samsung Galaxy XR Gets Real
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Tom Merritt joins Jason Howell to talk about OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser (with demo), Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, Anthropic's Claude Code launch, and Microsoft's push for voice-controlled AI PCs.
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OpenAI’s Sexy ChatGPT is Coming Soon
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI’s new adult chat feature in GPT-5, Nvidia’s launch of a personal AI supercomputer, and the US plan for a nuclear energy boom to power AI data centers.
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Sora App Hands-On: We've Got Mixed Feelings
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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into ChatGPT’s Sora app first hand, Jason's shows off Rabbit's redemption plan, a brief look at Jason's n8n installation, Deloitte’s AI blunder, and more.
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OpenAI Sora 2 Ignites Likeness Debate
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down OpenAI’s Sora 2 update, DeepMind’s vision for video foundation models, California’s sweeping new AI law, and Spotify’s fight against 75 million spammy tracks.
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Nvidia Powers OpenAI’s Future Now
In this episode, Jeff Jarvis and I break down Nvidia’s landmark $100 billion deal with OpenAI, Google’s rollout of Gemini in Chrome, and Bain’s report highlighting a massive AI revenue gap. We explore how these developments affect AI infrastructure, market power, and financial sustainability.
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Nano Banana is a viral hit!
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell explore Google’s Gemini AI lead, Alphabet hitting a $3 trillion market cap, Meta’s smart glasses leaks before MetaConnect, and OpenAI unveiling ChatGPT for teens.Enjoying the AI Inside podcast? Please rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcatcher of choice!
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Apple’s AI Silence Raises Big Questions
On this episode of AI Inside, Jeff Jarvis and I discuss Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement controversy, Apple’s silent approach to AI at its latest event, and OpenAI’s explanation for why language models continue to hallucinate.
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Is Google Handing AI Startups the Keys?
This week, Jeff Jarvis and I look at Google’s antitrust ruling and how it shakes up the AI landscape, wonder if Tesla’s $25T Optimus robot forecast is just a diversion, debate if Netflix’s algorithm-driven movies are killing creativity, and go deep on OpenAI’s new ChatGPT mental health "safeguards."
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Pixel 10’s New AI Features Tested
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore the new Pixel 10 AI features, generative AI’s impact on smartphone photography, Apple’s talks with Google about Gemini AI powering Siri, and the latest developments in AI copyright lawsuits and Meta’s hiring slowdown.
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ChatGPT 5 Faces Wall of Criticism!
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down the troubled GPT-5 launch, including Sam Altman’s reversal of the model routing feature, Perplexity’s $34.5B offer for Chrome, and Truth Social’s new AI search engine powered by Perplexity.
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DeepMind Genie 3 Builds Worlds Instantly!
On this week’s AI Inside with Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis, DeepMind shows off its Genie 3 simulation world model, Perplexity is under fire for controversial web crawling tactics, ElevenLabs unveils a commercial-ready AI music generator, and Illinois becomes the first state to ban AI-powered therapists.
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The Em Dash Stench
Join Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis as they discuss Meta's new chief AI scientist shakeup, Apple losing key AI talent to Meta, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses tripling sales, and Microsoft debuting a bold AI Copilot Mode in Edge.Enjoying the AI Inside podcast? Please rate us ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcatcher of choice!
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ChatGPT's Imaginary Product Trick
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell start things off by chatting with Soundslice's CEO Adrian Holovaty who responds to OpenAI inventing an imaginary feature. Then its news roundup time: The Trump administration’s sweeping new AI action plan, why AI shopping assistants still struggle with trust, the future of always-on AI wearables after Amazon acquires Bee, and Netflix officially embraces generative AI i
It's Got That Bubbly Feeling
Jeff Jarvis and I return for another week of AI Inside. NVIDIA and AMD get the green light to sell AI chips in China... for now! Is U.S. trade policy fueling Chinese AI innovation? Meta might someday decide to pivot from open-ish source to closed source, because dang, they are throwing serious money at superintelligence! Google’s $2.4 billion Windsurf licensing and talent grab continue to make us
Babak Hodjat: From Siri to Multi-Agent AI
Babak Hodjat, CTO for AI at Cognizant and a pioneer behind the technology that became Siri, joins us to discuss the new era of agentic AI. We dig into his early days building natural language systems, the evolution of multi-agent architectures, and how language interfaces are shaping the future of human-AI collaboration. We also discuss the safeguards needed to ensure trust in autonomous systems,
Perplexity's Comet Browser is Finally Here!
This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis celebrate the arrival of AI Mode for Jeff! They pick apart all of the defections taking place in AI (much of it heading right for Meta's Superintelligence lab), how AI impersonation is becoming a thing even if it isn't very successful yet, and the arrival of Perplexity's $200 per month plan that includes first dibs at their agentic Comet browser.
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Rishad Tobaccowala: Rethinking Work
Rishad Tobaccowala, author of "Rethinking Work" and longtime industry visionary, joins us on the AI Inside podcast to explore the seismic shifts AI is bringing to advertising and creativity. We dive into the evolution of the ad industry, the rise of outcome engines, and why agencies are more like cockroaches than dinosaurs. Rishad shares why creativity remains essential in an AI-driven world, how
Meta's Money Muscle
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis return for another week of AI news. We cover 1) Cloudflare launches tools for publisher control over AI crawlers 2) Creative Commons proposes dataset guidelines for AI training 3) Contradictory court rulings on AI and copyright 4) Getty Images drops claims against Stability AI in the UK 5) Senate strips federal ban on state AI regulations from tax bill 6) Meta’s superi
Anthropic's Copyright Victory
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down 1) Anthropic’s fair use win in the AI copyright case 2) Pirated book datasets and the looming shadow library trial 3) Apple’s rumored talks to acquire or partner with Perplexity 4) What a Perplexity deal could mean for Siri and search 5) Meta’s own interest in Perplexity and AI talent wars 6) Google’s new Chromebook Plus and on-device AI upgrades 7) Meta’s A
AGI Barbie
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis return for another week of AI news. We cover Amazon CEO Andy Jassey warning of AI-driven job cuts, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei differing views on AI’s employment impact, new data challenging the “AI jobpocalypse” and the rise of emerging AI-related job titles, OpenAI’s $200M Pentagon contract, Google’s AI tools and the decline in news site traffi
Huburistic Superintelligence
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis return for a deep dive into the week’s AI news. We cover Apple's new research paper exposing the illusion of AI reasoning, industry leaders' superintelligence hype and hubris, Altman’s “Gentle Singularity” vision, Ilya Sutskever’s brain-as-computer analogy, Meta’s massive superintelligence lab, LaCun and Pichai’s call for new AGI ideas, Apple’s on-device AI framework,
Meta’s AI Ad Takeover
This week on AI Inside, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Meta’s plan to fully automate ad creation and targeting by 2026, the rise of hyper-personalized ads, and the risks and rewards of letting AI take over decisions once reserved for humans. We also break down the New York Times’ landmark AI licensing deal with Amazon, the music industry’s negotiations with generative AI startups, and Google
The Veo-fication of Hollywood
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis are back for our weekly AI deep-dive. We cover Anthropic’s new Claude models and the “new model fatigue” problem, headline-grabbing AI blackmail tests and what they really mean, Google’s Veo 3 leap for generative video and what it means for creators, Duolingo’s AI-first shift and the jobs panic it sparked, plus a look at the “AI 2027” doomsday scenario and why it’s mor
Google's Nick Fox: Reinventing Google Search with AI Mode
Jason Howell sits down with Google’s Nick Fox at Google IO to reveal how AI is reinventing iconic products like Search and Maps, the surprising ways users are embracing AI Overviews and AI Mode, the challenge of balancing innovation with Google’s trademark simplicity, and what the future holds for web publishers and monetization. Jeff Jarvis joins for news discussion including Microsoft Build, and
Intel’s Robert Hallock: The Rise of AI PCs
Robert Hallock, VP and GM at Intel, joins us for a deep dive into the rise of AI PCs and why they’re more than just a buzzword. We unpack how new hardware accelerators are making smarter, faster, and more private computing possible, and why local, offline AI is about to become as essential as graphics in tomorrow’s laptops. Robert explains Intel’s ecosystem strategy, the real differences between C
Hey Gemini, Are We There Yet?
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis are back for another episode of AI Inside. We cover NVIDIA and AMD’s $10B Saudi chip deal, US-Saudi tech politics and China’s AI ambitions, AI leaders flip-flopping on regulation, copyright office drama and AI training fair use, Big Tech’s AI midlife crisis, Google’s Gemini expands to cars and wearables, scam protection for Android, ChatGPT’s impact on student learning
Altman's Orb Knows Your Humanity
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis are back for the latest AI Inside. We cover OpenAI’s nonprofit reversal and Musk’s ongoing lawsuit, Altman’s Orb stores for iris-scanning identity, Google’s confusing new AI Mode in search, Gemini 2.5 Pro’s IO Edition and coding challenge, Amazon’s Vulcan robots with a sense of touch, Apple’s AI search comments shaking up stocks, Reddit’s new human verification rules,
Emily Bender & Alex Hanna: “The AI Con”
Jeff and Jason sit down with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, co-authors of The AI Con, to unpack the myths and real-world harms behind today’s AI hype. They discuss why the term “AI” is so often misused, how Big Tech’s models can fail marginalized communities, and why smaller, community-driven AI projects can better serve local needs. The conversation also explores the pitfalls of generative tools, t
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Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI, OpenAI adds shopping to ChatGPT in a challenge to Google, researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments, and so much more on the AI Inside podcast!
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The Era of Experience
Hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into OpenAI’s desire to buy Google Chrome, Perplexity AI’s talks with Samsung and Motorola, Google DeepMind’s claim that AI could cure all disease in a decade, and the Oscars’ decision to allow A.I.—with caveats—and more.
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Vegetative Electron Microscopy Doesn't Exist
Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell dive into this week’s AI headlines: OpenAI prototypes a ChatGPT social feed, GPT-4.5 retires as GPT-4.1 arrives, OpenAI boosts memory and chat history features, Nvidia expands US chip production amid export control shakeups, Bill Gates predicts AI’s impact on teaching and medicine, ChatGPT Barbie Box memes challenge creative boundaries, Notion launches AI-powered email
Yann LeCun: Human Intelligence is not General Intelligence
Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner, joins us to discuss the limits of today’s LLMs, why generative AI may be hitting a wall, what’s missing for true human-level intelligence, the real meaning of AGI, Meta’s open-source strategy with Llama, the future of AI assistants in smart glasses, why diversity in AI models matters, and how open models could shape the next era of inn
Nothing is Forever
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI's record-breaking $40 billion funding round, ChatGPT's image generation update sparking controversy, Amazon unveils its first agentic AI model, and Elon Musk's xAI takes a bold step toward the 'Everything App'.
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Benchmarks for Mortals
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o image generation update, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro release, the emotional impact of chatbots on users, The Atlantic's LibGen database search tool, and more!
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NVIDIA's Economy of Tokens
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss NVIDIA's GTC conference with CEO Jensen Huang's keynote on tokens, the Vera Rubin CPU, and the intersection of AI and robotics, plus more!
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New Week, New Seek (with Sameer Samat)
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis examine OpenAI's new agent tools for developers, the Manus AI model, and Apple's AI feature delays, plus insights from Sameer Samat, Head of Android at Google, on Android's AI future.
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