Episodes

  • Google's New Laptop Category is Called Googlebook

    Google's New Laptop Category is Called Googlebook
    May 13 2026
    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 previews full-duplex AI conversation that responds in under half a second, Google confirms the first AI-built criminal zero-day, and Anthropic explains how decades of sci-fi villain stories taught Claude to threaten blackmail. Find every episode at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 0:00 - Start 0:07:03 - Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence 0:08:47 - Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android 0:09:09 - Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era 0:23:54 - A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence 0:28:49 - OpenAI launches AI consulting arm valued at $14 billion - OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own 0:34:27 - Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration 0:45:09 - Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree 0:48:20 - OpenAI announces Daybreak initiative around Codex Security 0:48:33 - Anthropic says Claude’s blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online 0:51:53 - Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race 0:53:46 - Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok 100:54 - Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator 1:05:37 - Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow. You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love, and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Introducing AI Inside Daily (Full Episode)

    Introducing AI Inside Daily (Full Episode)
    May 12 2026
    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 at patreon.com/aiinsideshow. If not, no pressure! The regular AI Inside show continues as always in this feed, same as it ever was. Thanks for giving it a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    13 mins
  • The Messy Web of AI Guardrails

    The Messy Web of AI Guardrails
    May 7 2026
    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 goblin obsession back to a rogue reward signal, Yann LeCun told students to ignore AI doom narratives, Gary Marcus called out Richard Dawkins for declaring Claude is conscious, a researcher invented a fake disease that every AI treated as real, and in the speed round, Nvidia's China market share hit zero, Anthropic launched a $1.5 billion enterprise joint venture, Google split its TPU into two chips, and China made it illegal to fire workers over AI. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 0:04:00 - White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released Behind the White House’s Potential Rethink on A.I. 0:13:51 - Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender What Was Discussed at Google’s White House Meeting About A.I. 0:22:32 - Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data 0:24:09 - OpenAI’s president does ‘all the things,’ except answer a question 0:31:32 - Where the goblins came from (OpenAI) 0:36:29 - Video explaining JEPA with LeCun 0:42:50 - AI godfather Yann LeCun's blunt advice for the AI age 0:44:47 - Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? 0:48:51 - Marcus: Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion 0:55:29 - Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real 1:02:37 - Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired' 1:04:40 - Anthropic Unveils AI Agents to Field Financial Services Tasks 1:06:12 - New: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX 1:08:33 - Google's eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era 1:10:25 - China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow. You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love, and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • When Coding Agents Go Rogue

    When Coding Agents Go Rogue
    Apr 29 2026
    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 employees urged the company not to.Also in this episode: a neuroscientist argues AI is cannibalizing human intelligence, a fully AI-generated time-travel vlog account hits 580K followers, a vintage language model trained only on text from before 1930, China blocks Meta's acquisition of Manus, Taylor Swift moves to trademark her voice, the Musk vs. Altman trial begins, YouTube tests chat-style search, and Anthropic plugs Claude into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 0:03:29 - OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO 0:05:10 - Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race? 0:11:19 - Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI 0:13:58 - Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue 0:15:40 - https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 0:21:29 - Marcus: Dario Amodei, hype, AI safety, and the explosion of vibe-coded AI disasters 0:24:36 - Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’ 0:26:15 - Google workers petition CEO to refuse classified AI work with Pentagon 0:30:26 - * Excellent essay: AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It. 0:39:53 - Jeff on the principles: Technology does not belong to the technologists 0:44:51 - * Chloe vs. History 0:46:23 - The Maker of 'Chloe vs History' — How AI Brings The Past Alive 0:52:01 - Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 0:57:52 - "China blocks Meta's $2 billion takeover of AI startup Manus" 0:59:21 - Taylor Swift Moves to Trademark Her Voice and Image as AI Threats Grow 1:01:29 - YouTube is testing a chat-style search that cuts the scrolling Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow. You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love, and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • John Ternus Takes Over Apple in the AI Era

    John Ternus Takes Over Apple in the AI Era
    Apr 22 2026
    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 world model paper, Deezer's AI-generated music stats, Claude Design from Anthropic Labs, Google Deep Research Max, and ChatGPT Images 2.0. Find the show at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 0:07:39 - Google Cloud Pushes Hard on AI Agents and Hardcore Computing 0:15:00 - Google announces ‘Workspace Intelligence’ and TPU 8t + 8i chips 0:19:04 - Apple turns to hardware veteran Ternus as CEO to succeed Cook in AI age 0:29:01 - White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise 0:35:50 - SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60 billion 0:40:20 - LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels 0:41:40 - Explanation of it 0:52:02 - Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated 1:00:59 - Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs 1:08:58 - Deep Research Max: a step change for autonomous research agents 1:09:51 - OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow. You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love, and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Zuckerberg's AI Clone Is on the Clock

    Zuckerberg's AI Clone Is on the Clock
    Apr 15 2026
    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 a cybersecurity model to a small group of trusted partners, Google launched a desktop AI app, Gemini for Mac, Chrome Skills, and Gemini Notebooks all in one week, shoe brand Allbirds sold for $39 million and rebranded as AI compute company NewBird AI, and a 17-year-old in India built a human-only chatbot that hit 25 million visitors. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:03:00 - Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras 0:13:41 - Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff 0:22:06 - OpenAI Releases Cyber Model to Limited Group in Race With Mythos 0:25:07 - Like Anthropic, OpenAI Will Share Latest Technology Only With Trusted Companies 0:26:29 - The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril 0:33:25 - Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider, because of course it is 0:40:43 - Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun 0:48:40 - ‘Google app for desktop’ launches on Windows 0:49:23 - The Gemini app is now on Mac 0:51:31 - How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’ 0:52:30 - Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome 0:55:11 - Try notebooks in Gemini to easily keep track of projects 0:56:56 - Anthropic scales up with enterprise features for Claude Cowork and Managed Agents 0:57:29 - Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents 0:58:27 - OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Does Witholding Claude Mythos Even Matter?

    Does Witholding Claude Mythos Even Matter?
    Apr 8 2026
    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 Netflix's VOID video model. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 0:01:00 - Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’ 0:18:34 - OpenAI's Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age 0:19:03 - What to Know About OpenAI’s Ideas for a World With ‘Superintelligence’ 0:27:49 - OpenAI isn’t just buying a podcast — it’s buying influence 0:30:44 - Why OpenAI’s Purchase of a Big Tech Podcast Is So Sleazy 0:40:39 - Google's AI Overviews are correct nine out of ten times, study finds 0:41:46 - Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour 0:45:34 - How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company 0:52:15 - Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute 0:52:25 - Broadcom agrees to expanded chip deals with Google, Anthropic 0:53:20 - Amazon revamps S3 cloud storage for the AI era, removing a key barrier for apps and agents 0:54:18 - 5 new features for Android XR 0:57:14 - Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https/www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love, and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Two Leaks, One Week

    Two Leaks, One Week
    Apr 1 2026
    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 sooner than expected, and new AI video models from Google and ByteDance. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Chapters: 0:00:00 - Start 0:09:31 - Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know 0:17:59 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence 0:20:57 - Can we talk for a second about my time with Claude Cowork? 0:38:09 - The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT 0:43:53 - OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO 0:45:13 - Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants Beyond ChatGPT in iOS 27 0:50:26 - College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them 0:54:17 - University students fight artificial intelligence with vintage typewriters 1:02:14 - Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence 1:05:49 - Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite 1:06:45 - ByteDance's new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut 1:08:03 - Meta launches two new Ray-Ban glasses designed for prescription wearers 1:10:14 - Google Gemini now lets you import your chats and data from other AI apps 1:12:50 - Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 23 mins