Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down OpenAI’s Sora 2 update, DeepMind’s vision for video foundation models, California’s sweeping new AI law, and Spotify’s fight against 75 million spammy tracks.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast begins
0:01:51 - Jason's Irish tour with Meta Oakley HSNT glasses
0:12:04 - iJustine's Sora test and promotion
0:14:32 - OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
0:19:34 - Foom: all slop, all the time...
0:29:11 - DeepMind says video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text
0:34:24 - AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by SAG-AFTRA: Tilly ‘Is Not an Actor… It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion
0:40:59 - ’CEO of Controversial Startup Vows to Keep Mass Publishing AI Podcasts Despite Backlash
0:53:07 - Spotify Announces New AI Safeguards, Says It’s Removed 75 Million ‘Spammy’ Tracks
0:55:00 - California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law
0:56:23 - Hawley and Blumenthal unveil AI evaluation bill
1:00:43 - This is Gemini for Home and the redesigned Home app, rollout starts today
1:04:09 - Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab to make AI digital assistant
1:06:44 - Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
1:08:03 - DoorDash Unveils Delivery Robot, Smart Scale in Hardware Debut
1:10:02 - Opera launches Neon AI browser to join agentic web browsing race