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AI Inside

AI Inside

By: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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 AI Inside explores what artificial intelligence really means for the world -- and for all of us. Hosted by tech journalist Jason Howell and media scholar Jeff Jarvis, the show delivers weekly coverage of the AI developments shaping technology, culture, and society, and conversations with leading researchers, builders, and thinkers. Jason brings decades of tech media experience at TWiT and CNET with a particular focus on how AI intersects with creativity and culture. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, author of "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis," and the voice behind BuzzMachine. Together they're working to build genuine public understanding of a technology that's changing everything.© 2026 Yellowgold Studios Politics & Government
Episodes
  • 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
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