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AI Inside

by Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis · English · Tech & Science

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 16 min
Latest: 8 Oct 2026
Language: English

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8 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 14 minNew

Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model

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…

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E149 · 1 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

The Proactive AI Agent Race is On

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,…
E148 · 25 Sep 2026 · 50 min

Qualcomm Wants Its AI Chips On Every Device

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…
E147 · 17 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

It's All About That Pace

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…
E146 · 9 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

OpenAI Says AGI Is Here

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…
E145 · 2 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face

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…
E144 · 27 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI

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…
E143 · 19 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped

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'…
E142 · 13 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts

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…
E141 · 4 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians

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…
E140 · 30 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

AI Is Eating Its Own Tail

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…
E139 · 23 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face

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…
E138 · 16 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets

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…
E137 · 9 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

China May Lock Down Its Best AI Models

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 than 90 percent of Claude Cowork use turns out not to be coding, Meta puts your Instagram photos into AI, wealthy families trade school for AI tutoring, Nvidia's…
E136 · 1 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

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 their most powerful models in the same week, both under government-imposed restrictions, while China's Zhipu AI gave away a model that matches some of those same capabilities for free.Also in this…
E135 · 26 Jun 2026 · 50 min

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 Overviews work under the hood, and talks about why users are adapting to natural language search faster than Google expected.Also in this episode: how preferred sources and subscriptions fit into AI…
E134 · 25 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

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 verification update, Meta's employee tracking data leak, Google DeepMind investing $75 million in A24, Amazon dropping its OpenAI film, Midjourney building a medical scanner, an 8-bit pixel-art MLB…
E133 · 19 Jun 2026 · 59 min

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 this conversation: why Cohere open-sourced its North Mini Code model, what stops an agent from taking an action it shouldn't, how AI is changing entry-level work, and where AI actually belongs in…
E132 · 18 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

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 researchers calling for the models to be restored.Also in this episode: SpaceX IPOs at $2 trillion and acquires Cursor for $60 billion in stock, Snap and XREAL both announce consumer AR glasses…
E131 · 10 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

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 and is planning a super app.Also in this episode: A Trump administration equity stake in OpenAI, Perplexity targeting a 2028 IPO, Google paying SpaceX $920 million a month for compute, AI agents now…
E130 · 4 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

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: Google lets publishers opt out of AI search, Microsoft floods Build 2026 with seven new models and an always-on agent, Nvidia's RTX Spark aims to reinvent the PC, companies start rationing AI as costs…
E129 · 28 May 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

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 federal courts, DeepSeek making its 75% price cut permanent at 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5, AI chatbots automating debt collection, a prompt injection bug inside Google AI Overviews, Robinhood's AI…
E128 · 21 May 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

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: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Anthropic acquires a major dev tools startup, Amazon Alexa+ can now generate podcast episodes, Elon Musk's latest lawsuit drama, and a growing American rebellion against…
E127 · 21 May 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

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 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…
12 May 2026 · 13 min

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. 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.…
E126 · 7 May 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

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 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…
E125 · 29 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

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 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…
E124 · 22 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

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 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…
E123 · 15 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

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 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…
E122 · 8 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

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 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…

About 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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Latest episode: 8 Oct 2026
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