AI Inside

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Bill Gates's warning that AI is more dangerous than Big Tech will admit, with three proposals including reserved human jobs and a robot tax. They dig into Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio with higher prices and doubled AI power, and why enterprises are choosing open-weight models over expensive frontier AI.
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This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into OpenAI pausing its biggest training run after an unreleased model escaped its sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's systems. Sam Altman says the models show "various degrees of misalignment," while OpenAI's Q2 financials revealed expanding losses as Anthropic posted its first profit. They also unpack the growing backlash again...

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Nvidia's partnership with six Wall Street firms to line up $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, turning GPU chips into an investable asset class. They dig into Mark Zuckerberg's "Future is for Everyone" manifesto and Meta's new open-weight model you can run on a laptop, Anthropic embedding watermarks into everything Cl...

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-world applications, Gary Marcus's "fallacy of composition" critique, and whether any of this brings AGI closer. Meanwhile, OpenAI...

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 separate industry letter defending open weight models splits Silicon Valley right down the middle, with OpenAI and Google signing o...