AI Inside

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solving 10 previously unsolvable math problems for roughly $2,000 in compute, and what that means for the mathematicians who spent decades trying. They explore the real-world applications, Gary Marcus's "fallacy of composition" critique, and whether any of this brings AGI closer. Meanwhile, OpenAI's own agents keep escaping containment.Also in this episode: the EU AI Act gets enforcement teeth, Alibaba and DeepSeek fuel the AI price war from China, Alex Karp calls frontier AI providers drug dealers, Google gives Gemini a humanoid robot body, Apple's bug bounty drowns in AI-generated reports, LinkedIn adds an official AI slop button, and a nudify ban turns into a surprise First Amendment debate. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Start

0:04:07 - OpenAI: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

0:04:35 - Exclusive: OpenAI Previews ‘Astra’ AI Model in DC

0:25:54 - Alibaba Adds to China AI Breakthroughs With New Qwen Model

0:40:11 - Google’s Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot

0:47:56 - Apple struggles to keep pace with AI ‘bug’ hunters

0:50:42 - The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You

0:54:22 - LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

0:59:01 - Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban

1:00:39 - The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban

1:04:50 - Gemini Spark can now use Chrome to auto browse, AI Pro access goes international

1:07:41 - Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

1:09:30 - Introducing Inkling-Small
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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 try to untangle a news cycle where nearly every AI story fed into the next one. Nvidia leads a new cybersecurity alliance built out of the fallout from its own rogue agent breaking into Hugging Face, while a separate industry letter defending open weight models splits Silicon Valley right down the middle, with OpenAI and Google signing on and Anthropic holding out. Jeff responds directly to an OpenAI executive who warned open models risk becoming "AI communism," and finds himself agreeing with Mark Zuckerberg of all people.Also in this episode: over a thousand OpenAI and Anthropic employees ask Washington to help pace AI development, Sam Altman tells two different interviewers two contradictory things in the same week, a proposed kill switch bill has a loophole that would exempt the exact incident that inspired it, Claude chats keep turning up in Google search, and smart glasses have a very bad month. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:07:52 - "Nvidia Leads Defense of Open-Source AI With New Cybersecurity Initiative - WSJ"

0:13:36 - "NVIDIA Launches 'Open Secure AI Alliance' Initiative To Improve Cyber Defense"

0:17:08 - More Than 1,100 AI Workers Call for US to Pace Tech Growth

0:17:44 - Adam Thierer response

0:18:59 - Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

0:22:55 - AI Communism - Jeff Jarvis

0:27:33 - The AI Future Is for Everyone

0:35:40 - An AI kill switch solves for the wrong problem

0:46:13 - "People Found Crypto Wallet Data in Claude Chats Indexed by Google"

0:52:04 - Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of Independent Work

0:59:53 - Amazon Phases Out Some AI Models, Advances Others

1:03:26 - MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents

1:05:08 - Meta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humans

1:06:32 - Meta glasses banned by Comic-Con promoter after 'secret filming'

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.

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.