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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. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 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 Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow. You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love, and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 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 Download and subscribe to AI Inside in audio and video: https://aiinside.show/ Support the podcast on Patreon for special perks: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow. You'll get ad-free episodes, members-only Discord, T-shirts and stickers you love, and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is sponsored by Airia. Get started today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠airia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down the rise of Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, and how it claims to let 1.5 million bots argue, joke, and organize like humans. We explore what it means when almost all of those agents are actually human‑driven proxies, and whether this is a playful experiment or a worrying blueprint for AI‑driven behavior at scale. We also question why anyone would need a social network just for AI agents, and what security and privacy risks OpenClaw‑style tools introduce when combined with an engagement‑driven platform that rewards risky actions. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Start 0:03:42 - AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast - Ars Technica 0:06:00 - Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis 0:31:47 - Why Anthropic's latest AI tool is hammering legal-software stocks 0:38:25 - Anthropic says ‘Claude will remain ad-free,’ unlike ChatGPT 0:43:05 - Firefox is adding a switch to turn AI features off 0:45:27 - DuckDuckGo Asked Its Users How They Feel About AI Search. 90% Hate It 0:48:14 - Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt 0:54:29 - Rabbit’s Next AI Gadget Is a ‘Cyberdeck’ for Vibe Coding 1:01:14 - Xcode moves into agentic coding with deeper OpenAI and Anthropic integrations 1:02:33 - Switching to Gemini from another chatbot may soon get much easier 1:05:41 - Musk’s SpaceX Combines With xAI at $1.25 Trillion Valuation 1:09:57 - OpenAI will retire several models, including GPT-4o, from ChatGPT next month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at ⁠Your360.ai⁠ with code: INSIDE. Join Jason Howell and Alfred Nutile as we break down Anthropic’s Claude Cowork desktop agent, OpenAI’s plan to monetize ChatGPT through ads, YouTube’s evolving strategy to curb AI slop, Alfred’s day-to-day building AI automations for clients, and rapid fire updates on AI water debates, Lego’s AI learning kits, and Wikipedia’s big training data partnerships. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 00:00:00 - Podcast begins 0:03:29 - Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work 0:07:36 - Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code 0:12:20 - Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT 0:12:44 - ChatGPT Go now unlocks unlimited access to GPT-5.2 Instant for $8 0:13:03 - OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch 0:14:21 - Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini 0:19:12 - YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop 0:24:08 - YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses 0:26:21 - The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them 00:28:27 - Opal by Google 0:56:59 - From Tokens to Burgers: A Water Footprint Face-Off 1:00:02 - OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT 1:01:36 - Adobe unveils new AI-powered video editing tools for Premiere 1:04:11 - Lego's latest educational kit seeks to teach AI as part of computer science, not to build a chatbot 1:05:36 - Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices