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The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts
13 August 2026

The AI Race Just Moved the Goal Posts

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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 Claude produces, and a major Google DeepMind leadership shake-up with analysts declaring Gemini "cooked."Also in this episode: the Pixel 11's AI camera features, a technique for reading what AI models actually think, UK venues banning Meta smart glasses, xAI's Grok Bot agent, OpenAI's hardware device plans, Nvidia's Nemotron open model, Cloudflare open-sourcing their agent platform, and Spotify labeling AI-generated artists. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:


0:00 - Start

0:03:14 - Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone

0:23:18 - Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU

0:23:50 - How Claude marks AI-generated content

0:41:21 - Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion

0:50:36 - Google’s AI shake-up boosts Brin as DeepMind’s Hassabis steps aside

0:50:40 - Google seeks a sharper focus in AI after Hassabis move

1:00:13 - Google’s Pixel 11 lineup offers fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini

1:09:52 - Jason goes hands on with the Pebble Index 01

1:14:34 - UK Venues Ban Meta Smart Glasses En Masse

1:15:11 - ‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content

1:19:12 - OpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300

1:20:08 - Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

1:21:40 - Cloudflare OS

1:24:17 - Nvidia Releases New Open Model

1:25:03 - Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them


Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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