It's All About That Pace

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis cover the biggest AI safety week in memory. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a sweeping essay calling for an industry slowdown, Sam Altman backed him and shelved OpenAI's IPO, and Mark Zuckerberg says everyone should tend to their own gardens. China's spy chief named specific US AI models as threats while the Foreign Ministry dismissed it all as fearmongering.

Also in this episode: Apple launches iOS 27 with a waitlisted Siri AI and hidden code for third-party model swapping, Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5, Jeff Jarvis's essay on regulatory capture, and AI upends the math world. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS: • 0:00 - Start • 0:03:46 - OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release • 0:05:49 - OpenAI’s president claims AI is as capable as humans now • 0:16:36 - Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge • 0:28:02 - OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki • 0:36:09 - In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business • 0:44:06 - Talking to Animals Is AI’s Next Ethical Minefield • 0:51:48 - Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings • 0:55:49 - Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus • 1:00:59 - Meta Glasses Users Who Tamper With the LED Are Getting Their Cameras Bricked • 1:02:43 - Microsoft Announces Project Zenith for Windows Developers • 1:04:48 - DOJ Backs OpenAI Fair Use Claim in AI Copyright Fight; Creators Must Try Congress • 1:05:54 -Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep

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