Fun: Humans Pretending to Be Chatbots

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into the AI stories you couldn't miss: Zuckerberg reportedly built a digital clone of himself to sit in on company meetings, Apple is quietly developing premium AI smartglasses in four frame styles for 2027, and the Wayback Machine is facing a real threat as major news organizations block it over AI training concerns.
Also in this episode: OpenAI released a cybersecurity model to a small group of trusted partners, Google launched a desktop AI app, Gemini for Mac, Chrome Skills, and Gemini Notebooks all in one week, shoe brand Allbirds sold for $39 million and rebranded as AI compute company NewBird AI, and a 17-year-old in India built a human-only chatbot that hit 25 million visitors. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:03:00 - Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras

0:13:41 - Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff

0:22:06 - OpenAI Releases Cyber Model to Limited Group in Race With Mythos

0:25:07 - Like Anthropic, OpenAI Will Share Latest Technology Only With Trusted Companies

0:26:29 - The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

0:33:25 - Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider, because of course it is

0:40:43 - Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun

0:48:40 - ‘Google app for desktop’ launches on Windows

0:49:23 - The Gemini app is now on Mac

0:51:31 - How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’

0:52:30 - Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

0:55:11 - Try notebooks in Gemini to easily keep track of projects

0:56:56 - Anthropic scales up with enterprise features for Claude Cowork and Managed Agents

0:57:29 - Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents

0:58:27 - OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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