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Phantom Datacenters Dec 11, 2025

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This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at https://Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google's XR prototypes and Meta's mixed reality delay, Nvidia's H200 chips cleared for China, the Agentic AI Foundation alliance, Meta's Limitless pendant acquisition, and Pebble's smart ring debut.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Podcast start
7:55 - I tried Google’s prototype smart glasses and it almost made me forget about my phone
8:13 - Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future
32:28 - Commerce to open up exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China
35:46 - Exclusive: Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling
41:06 - OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
48:05 - Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman
49:48 - Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100
55:48 - TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI
1:01:01 - Jeff's ARXIV Showdown
1:07:09 - From Inbox to Wipeout: Perplexity Comet’s AI Browser Quietly Erasing Google Drive
1:07:44 - Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
1:11:09 - You can buy your Instacart groceries without leaving ChatGPT
1:14:51 - Google's year in search adds AI catch-me-up
1:15:08 - Google’s Year in Search 2025: These trending topics spiked big

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Google XR Director Juston Payne: Project Aura, Android XR, Lessons from Google Glass Dec 08, 2025

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This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at Your360.ai with code: INSIDE.

Juston Payne is Google's Senior Director of Product Management for XR and the product mind behind Android XR and the newly announced Project Aura. He joins the AI Inside podcast to explain how Google plans to succeed where Google Glass fell short over a decade ago. We dig into why the smart glasses market today resembles the iPhone before the App Store existed, how Google's platform approach lowers the lift for developers, and why multimodal AI makes this the right moment for XR to take off. Juston also shares a personal story about his son navigating Rome with nothing but prototype glasses. Tune in for an essential conversation about where computing is headed next.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 - Podcast begins

00:00:44 - Introducing Juston Payne, Google's Senior Director of Product Management for XR

00:02:13 - Why Google Sees XR as the Next Major Computing Platform

00:05:14 - Google's Ecosystem Advantage and the Developer Problem

00:09:22 - Gemini and XR: A Perfect Multimodal Pairing

00:13:17 - Google Maps and the AI Pipeline Powering Immersive Experiences

00:16:44 - The 10-Year-Old Navigating Rome with Prototype Glasses

00:18:54 - Juston Reveals His Original Google Glass Explorer Edition

00:21:59 - The Three Things Missing from Glass: Hardware, Platform, and AI

00:26:02 - Privacy, Cameras, and Cultural Acceptance

00:27:43 - The Xreal Partnership and Project Aura

00:33:04 - Thank you to Juston Payne for joining the AI Inside podcast

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What a Difference Three Years Makes Dec 03, 2025

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack Apple's new AI chief Amar Subramanya, ChatGPT's third birthday reflections, and how Silicon Valley is spoofing websites to train its AI agents without getting blocked by the real thing.

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Behind the Scenes of Nano Banana Pro Nov 26, 2025

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google’s Nano Banana Pro launch and Jason's unique sit-down with the leaders of Gemini 3, Nvidia’s earnings amid AI bubble talks, Google’s TPU deal with Meta, and Warner Music’s Suno settlement. They also cover Trump’s Genesis Mission, Gmail AI concerns, Anthropic Opus 4.5, and Character AI’s age ban.

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Gemini 3 is Here Nov 19, 2025

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google’s Gemini 3 multimodal AI with visual and interactive features, Microsoft’s AI Copilot launch across Windows, and Jeff Bezos’s new well-funded AI startup Project Prometheus focused on engineering and manufacturing.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Podcast begins 01:55 - Do LLM's understand? AI Pioneer Yann Le Cun spars with DeepMind's Adam Brown 20:45 - A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 34:25 - Microsoft is packing more AI into Windows, ready or not - here's what's new 37:59 - Inside Microsoft Agent 365: How AI Workers Will Be Secured, Identified, and Governed 42:24 - At a major AI conference, one startup got voted most likely to flop 44:48 - Hugging Face CEO says we’re in an ‘LLM bubble,’ not an AI bubble 46:07 - Google boss warns 'no company is going to be immune' if AI bubble bursts 49:02 - Google unveils agentic tools to help advertisers

- So does Amazon 49:23 - And Meta introduces a foundation model for advertisers 53:17 - DeepMind releases WeatherNext2 56:05 - OpenAI introduces group chats with ChatGPT 58:28 - Microsoft’s new Anthropic partnership brings Claude AI models to Azure 59:26 - Amazon and Microsoft Back Effort That Would Restrict Nvidia’s Exports to China 1:00:42 - Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive

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Inside Microsoft Agent 365: How AI Workers Will Be Secured, Identified, and Governed Nov 18, 2025

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Microsoft is introducing Agent 365, a new control plane for managing AI agents across the enterprise. Charles Lamanna, the executive leading Microsoft’s Business Apps and Agents division, joins us to explain the ideas behind the launch and why the company believes AI workers will soon be as common as apps or devices. We explore how agents already operate inside organizations, how identity and permissions will work for autonomous systems, and how Microsoft plans to detect and govern rogue agents. If you want to understand the strategy and engineering thinking behind one of Microsoft’s biggest AI bets, this is the episode to hear.
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CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Podcast begins

01:51 – Introducing Charles Lamanna

02:45 – Why Microsoft Is Launching Agent 365 at Ignite

04:37 – How AI Agents Are Already Appearing Inside Companies

06:24 – Customer Fears About Agent Autonomy and Trust

08:40 – How Builders Know When They’ve Created a True “Agent”

11:33 – How Microsoft Detects Agents That Aren’t Registered

13:43 – How Agent 365 Will Audit and Govern AI Agents

17:05 – Real-World Examples of Agents Delivering Results

19:08 – Automatic Agent Registration and Future Telemetry Signals

20:07 – Using Agent 365 in Non-Microsoft Environments

20:38 – Whether Agent 365 Becomes the Directory for All Agents

22:25 – How Agent 365 Handles Bad or Misbehaving Agents

24:10 – What a “Bad Agent” Actually Means in Practice

25:55 – What Success Looks Like After Six to Twelve Months

30:16 – First Steps for Organizations Beginning Their Agent Journey

31:00 – Closing and thanks to Charles Lamanna

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What About... An OpenAI Bubble? Nov 12, 2025

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Yann LeCun’s possible Meta exit, SoftBank unloading its Nvidia stake for an OpenAI investment, an AI-generated artist topping Billboard’s country chart, OpenAI’s talks with Washington over federal loan guarantees, Perplexity’s stance on companion chat bots, Apple reportedly licensing Google’s Gemini, Amazon launching Kindle Translate, and Google Photos expanding with Nano Banana features.

CHAPTERS: 0:03:33: Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit to launch startup, FT reports 0:09:03: Cambrian-S: Towards Spatial Supersensing in Video: by Li, LeCun, et al 0:10:11: Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product 0:16:45: SoftBank Sells Its Nvidia Stake for $5.8 Billion to Fund OpenAI Bet 0:20:10: Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI 0:27:40: OpenAI discussed government loan guarantees for chip plants, not data centers, Altman says 0:29:19: @sama: I would like to clarify a few things. 0:38:51: Country’s No. 1 Digital Song Is an AI Smash, But Who Is Breaking Rust? Jeff's Arxiv Showdown 0:47:13: How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? 0:49:24: Brain Organoid Computing 0:49:45: What We Can Learn From Brain Organoids 0:51:18: LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior 0:52:00: Shareholder Democracy with AI Representatives 0:53:00: No. 10's synthetic voters 0:55:03: Perplexity's CEO says he's worried about AI companionship apps: 'Your mind is manipulable very easily' 0:56:20: tangentially related; might not mention: Tim Wu and Cory Doctorow’s NPCs: Non-Player Consumers 0:57:44: Apple Plans to Use 1.2 Trillion Parameter Google Gemini Model to Power New Siri - Bloomberg 0:59:05: Amazon launches an AI-powered Kindle Translate service for e-book authors 1:02:41: 6 new things you can do with AI in Google Photos 1:04:00: Remix makes sending photos to friends even more fun on Google Messages. 1:05:08: MotionStream AI

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Amazon vs Perplexity: Who Controls the Agent? Nov 05, 2025

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Join Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis as they unpack the Amazon-Perplexity legal fight, OpenAI’s massive cloud computing agreement, Coca-Cola’s AI-powered ads return for the holidays, and Jason reflects on two key reasons why he keeps returning to the Sora platform.

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CHAPTERS:

3:50 - Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Tool From Making Purchases

13:07 - OpenAI signs $38bn cloud computing deal with Amazon

15:00 - Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail?

23:02 - Universal Music Settles With AI Firm Udio

35:41 - Getty Images largely loses landmark UK lawsuit over AI image generator

38:24 - OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android

45:04 - OpenAI Wants Brands to Allow Their Mascots to Appear in Gen AI Videos

55:29 - Google’s First AI Ad Avoids the Uncanny Valley by Casting a Turkey

56:24 - Coca-Cola Is Trying Another AI Holiday Ad. Executives Say This Time Is Different

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01:05:14 - Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation

01:07:50 - Anthropic Projects $70 Billion in Revenue, $17 Billion in Cash Flow in 2028 (3 free reads with this link)

01:08:33 - OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model

01:09:17 - arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers

01:13:17 - Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space

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OpenAI's Path to IPO Oct 29, 2025

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This episode is sponsored by Airia. Get started today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠airia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

On this episode, Jeff and I break down OpenAI’s restructuring for profit, look at Qualcomm's new AI200 chips, discuss why Amazon’s office job reductions might not be entirely about AI, and share Adobe’s latest generative Firefly 5 updates from Adobe Max 2025.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Podcast begins

07:24 - OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization

16:03 - Amazon to Cut 14,000 Jobs as Jassy Looks to Ease Bureaucracy

18:01 - Nate B Jones on why they really laid off staff

23:38 - Nate B Jones on why they really laid off staff

25:33 - Adobe Now Lets You Generate Soundtracks and Speech in Firefly

33:17 - Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs

40:15 - Amazon unveils AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers

42:03 - Introducing Blue Jay and Project Eluna, Amazon’s latest robotics and AI technology for its operations

45:36 - Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’

49:25 - Leo's entry says he's semi-retired; news to him, I'll bet

51:58 - Qualcomm Launches AI Chips to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance

52:40 - Nvidia becomes world’s first $5tn company

57:28 - Sora update to bring AI videos of your pets, new social features, and soon, an Android version

01:00:48 - Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars

01:02:20: Find out what’s new in the Gemini app in October's Gemini Drop.

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Samsung Galaxy XR Gets Real Oct 22, 2025

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This episode is sponsored by Airia. Get started today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠airia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Tom Merritt joins Jason Howell to talk about OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser (with demo), Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, Anthropic's Claude Code launch, and Microsoft's push for voice-controlled AI PCs.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Podcast begins

04:16 - I tried the Samsung Galaxy XR headset, and I wasn't worried for smart glasses at all

12:35 - Jason's video: Galaxy XR’s hidden message about the future of smartglasses

21:52- OpenAI is launching a web browser called Atlas

34:56 - OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr.

37:48 - OpenAI cracks down on Sora 2 deepfakes after pressure from Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA

40:08 - YouTube’s likeness-detection technology has officially launched

43:45 - Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

48:45 - Anthropic’s Claude Code Comes to Web and Mobile

50:29 - Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed