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Meta's Data Center on Your Face

June 25, 2026 · 1 h 17 min

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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

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