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AI Inside

AI Inside

By: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis
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AI Inside is a weekly podcast about the AI changing technology, work, and daily life. Tech journalist Jason Howell and media scholar Jeff Jarvis cover the week's biggest AI news and interview the people actually building these systems, including product leaders from Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Past guests include Yann LeCun (Turing Award winner, founder of AMI Labs), Tulsee Doshi (Head of Product, Gemini at Google DeepMind), Saleema Amershi (Microsoft Research AI Frontiers), Nick Fox (Google SVP Knowledge & Information), and Ben Goertzel (SingularityNET). New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.© 2026 Yellowgold Studios Politics & Government
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  • Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI

    Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI
    Jun 26 2026
    This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis sit down with Liz Reid, VP and Head of Google Search, for a wide-ranging conversation about AI's transformation of the search product billions of people use every day. Liz makes the case that personalization could actually help small publishers find their exact audience rather than making them invisible, explains what the "ignore" bug revealed about how AI Overviews work under the hood, and talks about why users are adapting to natural language search faster than Google expected.Also in this episode: how preferred sources and subscriptions fit into AI search, Jeff challenges Liz on filter bubbles, and Liz's take on whether "search" is even the right word anymore. 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 0:09:41 - Personalization is something no one else is asking about 0:21:56 - Publisher concerns 0:26:31 - How do publishers verify that personalization is finding them the right audience? 0:28:33 - Filter bubbles 0:32:04 - Searching with Agents: is there a new verb for search? 0:35:57 - Liz's jobs, metrics, success, failure 0:40:13 - Where were you when you found out that searching the word ‘ignore’ broke AI Overviews, and what was your first reaction? Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Liz Reid 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
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    50 mins
  • Meta's Data Center on Your Face

    Meta's Data Center on Your Face
    Jun 25 2026
    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
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Joelle Pineau on Why Sovereign AI Just Got Real

    Joelle Pineau on Why Sovereign AI Just Got Real
    Jun 19 2026
    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. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. 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 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
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    59 mins
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