Episode notes
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…
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by Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis · English · Tech & Science
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…
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