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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down everything from Google I/O 2026, where the company made its strongest case yet for winning the AI race. Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark were unveiled, AI agents are now doing the searching instead of returning links, and Google's reach extended into design, science, YouTube, and shopping. Jason also demos Genie World Models live.Also in this episode: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic, Anthropic acquires a major dev tools startup, Amazon Alexa+ can now generate podcast episodes, Elon Musk's latest lawsuit drama, and a growing American rebellion against AI. Speed round includes the OpenAI IPO, xAI's coding agent, Meta's AR glasses, and more.New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show

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CHAPTERS:

0:04:31 - Everything announced at Google I/O 2026

             - Times: How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race

0:22:42 - A new era for AI Search

             - Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

0:27:53 - Google Launches Gemini Spark: A 24/7 AI Agent That Wants to Make You Ditch OpenClaw

0:44:35 - OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

0:46:32 - Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

0:55:20 - Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

0:57:27 - The Art of War, Elon Musk Edition: How to Lose a Lawsuit and Still Claim Victory

0:59:30 - The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

1:01:46 - NextEra Energy to buy Dominion in deal that unites two key players in race to power AI data centers

1:04:42 - Pope Leo XIV will publish his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25, with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah joining the launch panel at the Vatican

1:06:25 - Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

1:08:57 - Meta brings virtual writing to everyone with Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

1:10:36 - Musk’s xAI Unveils First Coding Agent in Bid to Rival Anthropic

1:10:59 - OpenAI is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Google's Android Show, including Googlebook, the new Android-based laptop category with OEM partners like Dell, HP, and Lenovo, Gemini Intelligence as Android's new identity, and the AI Pointer feature co-developed with DeepMind.

Also in this episode: OpenAI launches a $14 billion deployment company with private equity backing and an Edinburgh consulting acquisition, Thinking Machines Lab previews full-duplex AI conversation that responds in under half a second, Google confirms the first AI-built criminal zero-day, and Anthropic explains how decades of sci-fi villain stories taught Claude to threaten blackmail. Find every episode at aiinside.show.

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0:00 - Start

0:07:03 - Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence

0:08:47 - Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android

0:09:09 - Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

0:23:54 - A smarter, more proactive Android with Gemini Intelligence

0:28:49 - OpenAI launches AI consulting arm valued at $14 billion

- OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own

0:34:27 - Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration

0:45:09 - Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree

0:48:20 - OpenAI announces Daybreak initiative around Codex Security

0:48:33 - Anthropic says Claude’s blackmail behavior came from fictional evil AI stories online

0:51:53 - Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race

0:53:46 - Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok

100:54 - Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

1:05:37 - Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis 

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AI Inside Daily is a short weekday show I've been making for AI Inside patrons! A quick brief on the AI headlines that actually matter and a little context on why . I'm dropping today's full episode into the main AI Inside feed as the official kickoff. Starting May 25, the daily moves to the $5 paid Patreon tier and lives in its own dedicated podcast feed.

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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.

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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 

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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.

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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

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