Apple M6/M5 Ultra: hardware for local AI

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.
Also in this episode: Perplexity and Nvidia launch a local AI agent with zero cloud costs, OpenAI debuts Jalapeno, robots outrun Bolt and draw blood, AI everywhere in China, Spirit flight attendants fight Google's data deal, the NYT tests AI summaries, Anthropic claims $30 trillion in revenue potential, a stealth Chinese model rivals DeepSeek, AI music gets banned from charts, and Slack ships vibe coding. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

• 0:00 - Start
• 0:07:08 - Apple refreshes Mac mini and Mac Studio with new M6 and M5 Ultra chips
• 0:10:43 - Open weights winning
• 0:22:52 - Perplexity Launches Local AI Model That Will Run on Your GPU Instead of the Cloud
• 0:25:26 - Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs
• 0:28:03 - The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.
• 0:41:20 - Humanoid robots shatter Usain Bolt's 100m record, hits 23.8 mph before crashing into foam pads — video shows Tiangong Ultra logging 9.39-second sprint before colliding with padded wall
• 0:47:14 - A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026
• 0:48:45 - A.I. Is Everywhere in China. See For Yourself.
• 0:52:49 - OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip offers spicy performance
• 0:54:36 - Spirit Flight Attendants Fight Google’s Data Bid for AI
• 0:59:16 - The New York Times is testing AI summaries on readers
• 1:04:17 - Anthropic Expected to Tell Investors It Sees Over $30 Trillion in Potential Revenue
• 1:05:41 - China’s Z.AI Made Ox Alpha Stealth Model That Rivals DeepSeek
• 1:06:32 - Fully AI-generated music to be banned from ARIA charts

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis 

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