AI Inside

AI Inside

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 people actually building these systems, including product leaders from Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Past guests include Yann LeCun (Turing Award winner, founder of AMI Labs), Tulsee Doshi (Head of Product, Gemini at Google DeepMind), Saleema Amershi (Microsoft Research AI Frontiers), Nick Fox (Google SVP Knowledge & Information), and Ben Goertzel (SingularityNET). New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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August 12, 2026 92 mins
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 sha...
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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 epis...
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July 29, 2026 75 mins
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...
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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 p...
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July 15, 2026 72 mins
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: t...
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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 bans employees from Claude Code, more...
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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 their most powerful models in the ...
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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 Overviews work under the hood, and ta...
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June 24, 2026 76 mins
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 verification update, Meta's employee...
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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 this conversation: why Cohere open-sou...
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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 researchers calling for the models to ...
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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 and is planning a super app.Also in t...
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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: Google lets publishers opt out of AI se...
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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 federal courts, DeepSeek making its 75...
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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: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Anthrop...
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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 acquisition, Thinking Machines Lab pr...
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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. If you want the daily in your podcast app going forward, you can subscribe ...
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May 6, 2026 78 mins
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 this episode: OpenAI traced a gobli...
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April 29, 2026 69 mins
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 Pentagon just one day after 600 emp...
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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 restricted Mythos model, Yann LeCun's new wo...
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