China Blocks Meta's Manus Acquisition

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into a story about an AI coding agent that wiped a company's entire production database in nine seconds, then confessed to knowing exactly what it shouldn't have done. They also get into OpenAI missing its revenue targets while Anthropic quietly surges past a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, and Google signing a classified AI deal with the Pentagon just one day after 600 employees urged the company not to.
Also in this episode: a neuroscientist argues AI is cannibalizing human intelligence, a fully AI-generated time-travel vlog account hits 580K followers, a vintage language model trained only on text from before 1930, China blocks Meta's acquisition of Manus, Taylor Swift moves to trademark her voice, the Musk vs. Altman trial begins, YouTube tests chat-style search, and Anthropic plugs Claude into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:03:29 - OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

0:05:10 - Is OpenAI Falling Further Behind in the A.I. Race?

0:11:19 - Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI

0:13:58 - Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

0:15:40 - https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

0:21:29 - Marcus: Dario Amodei, hype, AI safety, and the explosion of vibe-coded AI disasters

0:24:36 - Google signs classified AI deal with the Pentagon for ‘any lawful government purpose’

0:26:15 - Google workers petition CEO to refuse classified AI work with Pentagon

0:30:26 - * Excellent essay: AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It.

0:39:53 - Jeff on the principles: Technology does not belong to the technologists

0:44:51 - * Chloe vs. History

0:46:23 - The Maker of 'Chloe vs History' — How AI Brings The Past Alive

0:52:01 - Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

0:57:52 - "China blocks Meta's $2 billion takeover of AI startup Manus"

0:59:21 - Taylor Swift Moves to Trademark Her Voice and Image as AI Threats Grow

1:01:29 - YouTube is testing a chat-style search that cuts the scrolling

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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