Jason Howell
Tech Journalist · Founder, Yellowgold Studios
Veteran tech journalist, broadcaster, and founder of Yellowgold Studios with over 20 years in digital media across CNET, TWiT.tv, and Android Faithful.
Uncovering the AI layered throughout the world of technology.
Weekly news, grounded analysis devoid of hype, and direct conversations with the researchers, executives, and critics building modern AI systems.
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Anthropic's Marketing of Peril // AI Inside #153
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Anthropic's public S-1, from its $2 trillion target valuation and the single voting share its founders control to roughly 90 pages of risk factors, Elizabeth Warren's demand for answers, and a...
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Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI
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 cou...
Joelle Pineau on Why Sovereign AI Just Got Real
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 o...
When Agents Negotiate With Agents with Microsoft Research's Saleema Amershi
This episode is sponsored by Airia. Get started today at airia.com. Saleema Amershi is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, where she leads the teams behind AutoGen and Magentic-One. She joins the AI Inside...
Ben Goertzel: What AGI Means Now, Open Source AI, and Compute Constraints
This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at https://Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Ben Goertzel, founder and CEO of SingularityNET, joins us to argue for an open path to AGI. We unpack what “open source” should include...
Is AI Search Hurting The Open Web? With Google's Nick Fox
This episode is sponsored by Your360 AI. Get 10% off through January 2026 at https://Your360.ai with code: INSIDE. Nick Fox is the SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google, overseeing Search, Ads, and Commerce. He returns to the AI Inside podcast s...
Yann LeCun: Human Intelligence is not General Intelligence
Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun joins Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis to discuss the limitations of current large language models, why human-level AI is still years away, Meta's open-source approach with LLAMA, and the vision for AI assistants that...
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Anthropic's Marketing of Peril
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into Anthropic's public S-1, from its $2 trillion target valuation and the single voting share its founders control to roughly 90 pages of risk factors, Elizabeth Warr...
PHP2Shell And The AI That Found It
AI helps uncover critical PHP bugs, users strip smart-TV ads, and a researcher argues neural networks may be easier to understand than expected. Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the week in AI.
Is AI Really Bringing the End of Software?
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis ask whether we're witnessing the end of software, as developer Brandon Thomas uses Claude to build free, open-source clones of Microsoft Office and Adobe's Creative Suite ...
Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model
This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into two big Western open-weight models that landed within 24 hours of each other. Mistral’s trillion-parameter Large 4 was trained entirely in Mistral’s own European ...
The Proactive AI Agent Race is On
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore OpenAI Dots, Meta Muse Charm, Nvidia’s agent safety platform, Anthropic’s IPO prospectus, and AMD’s World Labs acquisition. Plus: Googlebook, Manus 2.0, Gemini, and Google’s...
Qualcomm Wants Its AI Chips On Every Device
This week Jason Howell reports from Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Maui, where the company unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a new Extreme tier capable of running 30-billion-parameter AI models on a ph...
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Media scholar, journalist, former director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, co-founder of Entertainment Weekly, and author of Hot Type and The Gutenberg Parenthesis.
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