AI Inside

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis invite Mike Elgan to dig into Yann LeCun's billion-dollar world models startup, Anthropic's federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense, Meta's acquisition of Moltbook and whether its AI agents were ever real, and new research on whether AI is causing worker burnout instead of relieving it.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Start

0:01:44 - Ex-Meta AI chief Yann LeCun's AMI raises $1.03 billion for alternative AI approach

0:07:49 - AMI page with mission

0:17:55 - Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation

0:21:56 - OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government

0:25:51 - time cover

0:32:16 - Exclusive: Meta hires duo behind Moltbook

0:33:29 - No, the Singularity Hasn’t Arrived: The Truth About Moltbook

0:47:57 - Nvidia plans open-source AI agent platform ‘NemoClaw’ for enterprises

0:49:59 - Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done

0:51:38 - When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

1:02:58 - Amazon Wins Court Order Blocking Perplexity’s AI Shopping Bots

1:03:56 - Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI bot from shopping on Amazon in early test of agentic commerce

1:08:31 - Google rolls out new Gemini capabilities to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive

1:09:54 - Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack the Pentagon's fallout with Anthropic over military AI, OpenAI's rushed deal to replace them, Block cutting 40% of staff, blaming AI, Perplexity launching a multi-agent computer system, a whistleblower exposing Meta smart glasses privacy issues, and the Supreme Court rejecting AI copyright claims.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Start

0:01:59 - A ‘Fight About Vibes’ Drove the Pentagon’s Breakup with Anthropic

0:05:34 - OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’

0:05:34 - SAMA's prevaricating, planicked posts

0:12:33 - Anthropic Nears $20 Billion Revenue Run Rate Amid Pentagon Feud

0:28:04 - Jack Dorsey’s Latest Far-Out Bet: An AI Future With Fewer Employees

0:28:36 - Jack Dorsey’s Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake

0:30:16 - The Week the Dreaded AI Jobs Wipeout Got Real

0:31:20 - Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now.

0:37:21 - Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

0:39:16 - Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

0:40:55 - Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred

0:48:02 - Restaurant uses AI to make salty otter logo; gets slammed

0:50:15 - Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

0:54:22 - The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art

0:59:58 - Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

1:03:16 - Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

1:03:38 - GPT‑5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations

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Saleema Amershi is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, where she leads the teams behind AutoGen and Magentic-One. She joins the AI Inside podcast to discuss what happens when AI agents stop working in isolation and start collaborating, transacting, and negotiating with each other at scale. We cover the challenges of multi-agent orchestration, why current frontier models show a dangerous first-proposal bias that favors speed over quality, and how her team built the Magentic Marketplace to simulate agent-to-agent commerce. We also dig into agent manipulation, the tension between walled gardens and open ecosystems, and what duty of care means when an AI is acting on your behalf.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Podcast Start

01:46 - Introduce Saleema Amershi

0:02:04 - Talk about the challenges surrounding the orchestration of these agents together. And what limits this collaboration today, is it a technical limitation or something deeper?

0:05:10 - OpenClaw perspectives

0:06:42 - From your research, why would these projects fall apart? And actually, are companies setting themselves up for failure by moving too fast?

0:07:53 - What IS Magentic AI

0:12:16 - Collaboration between humans, AI and the agents.

0:18:45 - Agents eliminate the scarcity of attention

0:20:04 - You found that these frontier models that we're often told are ready to handle complex tasks like these were getting stunted by too many choices. They were showing a strong bias toward whatever option showed up first regardless of the quality. So, what's going on there?

0:24:07 - The first-proposal bias

0:33:25 - You co-published 18 guidelines for human-AI interaction back in 2019. When you look at those original guidelines through the lens of what you're working on today, what still holds up and what could you not have anticipated back then?

0:36:58 - What are the lessons for marketers and sellers?

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On this week’s AI Inside with Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis, I unpack the viral “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” memo, Anthropic’s claims of Claude distillation attacks, an OpenClaw inbox meltdown, Meta’s massive AMD chip bet, Samsung’s “Hey Plex” phones, Pomelli’s AI product shots, and Claude’s new Wall Street push.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Start

0:02:55 - THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

0:04:45 -  Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street’s Deep Anxiety About AI Future

0:08:24 -  IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat

0:09:22 -  Cybersecurity stocks drop for a second day as new Anthropic tool fuels AI disruption fears

0:20:00 - Anthropic: Detecting and preventing distillation attacks

0:24:19 -  American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model

0:33:41 -  Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI [Openclaw] Can Just Delete Your Stuff

0:37:39 -  Google clamps down on Antigravity 'malicious usage', cutting off OpenClaw users in sweeping ToS enforcement move

0:41:52 -  Jia Zhangke Creates AI Video With Seedance 2.0

0:42:29 - The video (translation CC available)

0:52:21 -  Facebook owner Meta to buy AI chips from AMD in deal worth up to $100 billion

0:53:08 -  Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power

0:54:13 -  Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI

0:55:22 - Google: Create studio-quality marketing assets with Photoshoot in Pomelli

0:56:55 - Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Claude Opus 4.6’s new role as a financial‑research engine, discuss how GPT‑5.3 Codex is reshaping full‑stack coding workflows, and explore Matt Shumer’s warning that AI agents will touch nearly every job in just a few years. We unpack how Super Bowl AI ads are reframing public perception, examine Waymo’s use of DeepMind’s Genie 3 world model to train autonomous vehicles on rare edge‑case scenarios, and also cover OpenAI’s ad‑baked free ChatGPT tiers, HBR’s findings on how AI expands workloads instead of lightening them, and new evidence that AI mislabels medical conditions in real‑world settings.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Start

0:01:59 - Anthropic Releases New Model That’s Adept at Financial Research

Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’

0:10:00 - Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex

0:14:42 - Something Big Is Happening

0:33:25 - Can these Super Bowl ads make Americans love AI?

0:36:52 - Dunkin’ Donuts digitally de-aged ‘90s actors and I’m terrified

0:39:47 - AI.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70mn in biggest-ever website name deal

0:42:11 - OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT, draws early attention from advertisers and analysts

0:48:27 - Waymo Says Genie 3 Simulations Can Help Boost Robotaxi Rollout

0:53:30 - AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

1:02:08 - As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

1:04:48 - Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own

1:06:53 - Google goes long with 100-year bond

1:09:18 - OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
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