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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 broadcast site, Claude Tag for Slack, NotebookLM's upgrade, and Trump's quantum computing executive orders. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:03:01 - Trump tells "The Axios Show" that Anthropic was a national security threat

0:07:08 - Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID

0:12:20 - Mythos reportedly breached ‘almost all’ NSA classified systems within a few hours during red-team test — report sheds more light on the U.S. government's sudden ban on the flagship models

0:13:11 - Why Would Amazon’s CEO Try to Kneecap Anthropic by Tattling to Trump?

0:13:25 - Meta Debuts Glasses Under Its Own Brand at Lower $299 Price

0:14:38 - Meta’s Very Own Smart Glasses Go on Sale Today for $299

0:26:52 - Nobel-Winning AI Researcher Leaves Google for Anthropic

0:28:21 - Google stock is sliding toward its worst day in a year after two top AI researchers quit

0:34:23 - Google Investing in ‘Backrooms’ Studio A24

0:41:36 - The Ex-Pixar Producer Who’s All In on A.I.

0:48:37 - Midjourney, the AI image generator, is developing a full-body ultrasonic scanner

0:52:44 - Ribbie turns real-time baseball stats into arcade-like, pixel-art broadcasts

0:56:46 - Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

1:01:51 - Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

1:03:17 - Trump Seeks to Boost Quantum Computing With New Executive Orders

1:04:32 -NotebookLM's Latest Update Makes It an Even Better Research Tool

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.

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 medicine and drug discovery.New episodes at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:02:28 - Honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa, uncertainty for new graduates

0:10:33 - Grads: Say Yes to the role they’re not quite ready for

0:22:07 - Leaving Meta’s Fundamental AI Research team

0:27:06 - North Mini Code

0:34:29 - History with AI in personalized medicine

0:43:21 - What does North do today that stops an agent from behaving badly?

0:45:51 - Cohere and sovereignty with the current dispute between Anthropic and the U.S. government

0:50:39 - Are we any closer to agents that can build connections to understand each other?

Hosts: Jason Howell Guest: Joelle Pineau

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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 shipping this fall, Jeff Bezos talks publicly about his $12 billion AI startup Prometheus, Allbirds pivots to AI infrastructure, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai skips mentioning AI entirely at Stanford's commencement. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 - Start

0:01:37 - Anthropic, Trump Officials Seek Deal on Restoring Powerful Model Access

0:03:23 - How a 90-minute White House deadline sparked Silicon Valley’s biggest AI fight

0:03:23 - How Anthropic lost the White House’s trust — and then its flagship product

0:34:12 - SpaceX market cap tops $2 trillion after shares of Elon Musk’s rocket company gain 19% on debut

0:39:17 - SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

0:43:20 - Introducing SPECS Augmented Reality Glasses

0:47:20 - XREAL’s Android XR glasses will cost under $1,500, which isn’t as expensive as it sounds

0:52:08 - Bezos opens up about AI startup Prometheus after $12 billion raise: ‘We’re not being secretive’

0:55:36 - 5 Things To Know As Allbirds Drops Shoes For Smartbird, AI And New CEO

1:00:44 - Dozens walk out as Google boss Pichai addresses Stanford graduates

1:02:48 - Elon Musk Loses Again to OpenAI as Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secret Lawsuit

1:03:41 - Microsoft turns to Amazon for help with GitHub's AI-driven capacity issues

1:05:10 - DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos

1:06:18 - DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

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.