AI Inside

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 NYT tests AI summaries, Anthropic claims $30 trillion in revenue potential, a stealth Chinese model rivals DeepSeek, AI music gets banned from charts, and Slack ships vibe coding. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:07:08 - Apple refreshes Mac mini and Mac Studio with new M6 and M5 Ultra chips

0:10:43 - Open weights winning

0:22:52 - Perplexity Launches Local AI Model That Will Run on Your GPU Instead of the Cloud

0:25:26 - Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs

0:28:03 - The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.

0:41:20 - Humanoid robots shatter Usain Bolt's 100m record, hits 23.8 mph before crashing into foam pads — video shows Tiangong Ultra logging 9.39-second sprint before colliding with padded wall

0:47:14 - A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026

0:48:45 - A.I. Is Everywhere in China. See For Yourself.

0:52:49 - OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip offers spicy performance

0:54:36 - Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI

0:59:16 - The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers

1:04:17 - Anthropic Expected to Tell Investors It Sees Over $30 Trillion in Potential Revenue

1:05:41 - China’s Z.AI Made Ox Alpha Stealth Model That Rivals DeepSeek

1:06:32 - Fully AI-generated music to be banned from ARIA charts

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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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.

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' internal data, Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion IPO, ChatGPT for Teens launches, DeepSeek quadruples prices, AI slop floods Congressional bill drafting, Amazon scans rare books for AI training, and Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7 billion. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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0:00 - Start

0:10:32 - OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

0:14:12 - OpenAI Is Slowing Down Its AI Training

0:18:47 - Related: Anthropic investors bet on $2tn valuation in record IPO

0:20:34 - Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed

0:31:31 - JJ on the discussion last week: Words Matter. Damnit.

0:33:56 - Why tools to detect AI-generated text are doomed

0:43:47 - Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models

0:57:08 - Okay Spielberg TikTok

1:07:08 - OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow

1:11:05 - DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more

1:12:08 - AI slop is swamping a House office that drafts US laws

1:13:44 - Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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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.

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 venues banning Meta smart glasses, xAI's Grok Bot agent, OpenAI's hardware device plans, Nvidia's Nemotron open model, Cloudflare open-sourcing their agent platform, and Spotify labeling AI-generated artists. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:03:14 - Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone

0:23:18 - Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

0:23:50 - How Claude marks AI-generated content

0:41:21 - Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion

0:50:36 - Google’s AI shake-up boosts Brin as DeepMind’s Hassabis steps aside

0:50:40 - Google seeks a sharper focus in AI after Hassabis move

1:00:13 - Google’s Pixel 11 lineup offers fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini

1:09:52 - Jason goes hands on with the Pebble Index 01

1:14:34 - UK Venues Ban Meta Smart Glasses En Masse

1:15:11 - ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content

1:19:12 - OpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300

1:20:08 - Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

1:21:40 - Cloudflare OS

1:24:17 - Nvidia Releases New Open Model

1:25:03 - Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them

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.
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