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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google's XR prototypes and Meta's mixed reality delay, Nvidia's H200 chips cleared for China, the Agentic AI Foundation alliance, Meta's Limitless pendant acquisition, and Pebble's smart ring debut.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Podcast start
7:55 - I tried Google’s prototype smart glasses and it almost made me forget about my phone
8:13 - Here's how Google is laying the foundation for our mixed reality future
32:28 - Commerce to open up exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China
35:46 - Exclusive: Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling
41:06 - OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice
48:05 - Meta Acquires Limiteless, an A.I. Pendant Company Backed by Sam Altman
49:48 - Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100
55:48 - TESCREALers paying journalists at major outlets to cover AI
1:01:01 - Jeff's ARXIV Showdown
1:07:09 - From Inbox to Wipeout: Perplexity Comet’s AI Browser Quietly Erasing Google Drive
1:07:44 - Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
1:11:09 - You can buy your Instacart groceries without leaving ChatGPT
1:14:51 - Google's year in search adds AI catch-me-up
1:15:08 - Google’s Year in Search 2025: These trending topics spiked big
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Google XR Director Juston Payne: Project Aura, Android XR, Lessons from Google Glass
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Juston Payne is Google's Senior Director of Product Management for XR and the product mind behind Android XR and the newly announced Project Aura. He joins the AI Inside podcast to explain how Google plans to succeed where Google Glass fell short over a decade ago. We dig into why the smart glasses market today resembles the iPhone before the App Store existed, how Google's platform approach lowers the lift for developers, and why multimodal AI makes this the right moment for XR to take off. Juston also shares a personal story about his son navigating Rome with nothing but prototype glasses. Tune in for an essential conversation about where computing is headed next.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Podcast begins
00:00:44 - Introducing Juston Payne, Google's Senior Director of Product Management for XR
00:02:13 - Why Google Sees XR as the Next Major Computing Platform
00:05:14 - Google's Ecosystem Advantage and the Developer Problem
00:09:22 - Gemini and XR: A Perfect Multimodal Pairing
00:13:17 - Google Maps and the AI Pipeline Powering Immersive Experiences
00:16:44 - The 10-Year-Old Navigating Rome with Prototype Glasses
00:18:54 - Juston Reveals His Original Google Glass Explorer Edition
00:21:59 - The Three Things Missing from Glass: Hardware, Platform, and AI
00:26:02 - Privacy, Cameras, and Cultural Acceptance
00:27:43 - The Xreal Partnership and Project Aura
00:33:04 - Thank you to Juston Payne for joining the AI Inside podcast
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Introducing Smart Talks with IBM
Jason Howell recommends the Smart Talks with IBM podcast where business leaders, technologists and creatives explore how AI and other innovations are transforming industries.
This episode is sponsored by Smart Talks with IBM. Check it out here: https://apple.co/43yY2xd.
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What a Difference Three Years Makes
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis unpack Apple's new AI chief Amar Subramanya, ChatGPT's third birthday reflections, and how Silicon Valley is spoofing websites to train its AI agents without getting blocked by the real thing.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00:00 - Podcast start
0:02:50 - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/30/chatgpt-third-birthday/
0:05:30 - https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/30/chatgpt-launched-three-years-ago-today/
0:16:25 - https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/apple-just-named-a-new-ai-chief-with-google-and-microsoft-expertise-as-john-giannandrea-steps-down/
0:22:42 - https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/amazon-releases-an-impressive-new-ai-chip-and-teases-a-nvidia-friendly-roadmap/
0:29:35 - https://www.rohan-paul.com/p/semianalysis-on-google-tpu-vs-nvidia
- https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-google-takes-a-swing-at-the
0:33:25 - https://archive.ph/YsUrX#selection-285.0-285.85
0:39:00 - https://deadline.com/2025/11/james-cameron-gen-ai-horrifying-human-art-sacred-avatar-1236631387/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=692d672d138b980001cfe084&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawOaZNRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCV25hNGNVSm95Tzk0S3pVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsePuPpiv_rP7ZGwwz3XHIDvCxbAILSEt1DcFsZBIT8kw3T9uUkOQR3VqHU5_aem_Er2ggpoE7126yXy0m4i_lg
0:43:53 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/technology/silicon-valley-builds-amazon-and-gmail-copycats-to-train-ai-agents.html
0:52:53 - https://venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-just-dropped-two-insanely-powerful-ai-models-that-rival-gpt-5-and
0:55:37 - Runway unveils Gen-4.5 video generation model that tops Video Arena
1:00:49 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/technology/college-computer-science-ai-boom.html
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Introducing Smart Talks with IBM
Jason Howell recommends the Smart Talks with IBM podcast where business leaders, technologists and creatives explore how AI and other innovations are transforming industries.
This episode is sponsored by Smart Talks with IBM. Check it out here: https://apple.co/43yY2xd.
AI Inside explores the complexities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world at large. Hosted by tech podcaster Jason Howell and media expert Jeff Jarvis, AI Inside takes a thoughtful look at the promise and challenges of AI while inviting some of the industry's most notable players and thinkers to engage in thoughtful dialogue about AI, neither overhyping its potential nor dismissing public concerns about its development. With a deep interest in AI's impacts on art and culture, Jason uses his rich experience in technology and creativity to understand its capabilities better. Jeff is a respected voice on technology's influence on media and society, thanks to his popular blog BuzzMachine and books like "The Web We Weave" and "The Gutenberg Parenthesis." Together, Jason and Jeff aim to advance public understanding of this world-changing technology at an important inflection point.