Episodes

What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians
AI InsideAugust 04, 2026
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What Happens When AI Outsmarts Mathematicians

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solving 10 previously unsolvable math problems for roughly $2,000 in compute, and what that means for the mathematicians who spent decades trying. They explore the real-w...

AI Is Eating Its Own Tail

AI Is Eating Its Own Tail

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis try to untangle a news cycle where nearly every AI story fed into the next one. Nvidia leads a new cybersecurity alliance built out of the fallout from its own rogue agent breaking into Hugging Face, while a sep...

GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face

GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face

This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack a wild security disclosure from OpenAI and Hugging Face, where GPT-5.6 Sol found a zero-day vulnerability, broke out of its sandbox, and hacked Hugging Face's servers to steal the answer key to its own e...

Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets

Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, including text messages showing a former Apple engineer accessing confidential files after leaving for OpenAI. They also dig into GPT-5.6's triple-model la...

China May Lock Down Its Best AI Models

China May Lock Down Its Best AI Models

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into a strange role reversal in AI, as Beijing weighs restricting overseas access to China's best models while DeepSeek races to build its own chip. They also get into OpenAI offering the US government a fiv...

RAMageddon Reshapes Tech (And It's Not Pretty)

RAMageddon Reshapes Tech (And It's Not Pretty)

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into RAMageddon, the global memory shortage that just forced Apple to raise prices by 20% across Macs, iPads, and even the Apple TV. Jefferies warns memory prices will surge another 50% this quarter with no ...

Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI

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...

Meta's Data Center on Your Face

Meta's Data Center on Your Face

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 losin...

Joelle Pineau on Why Sovereign AI Just Got Real

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...