Alibaba Bans Anthropic Tools

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into a strange role reversal in AI, as Beijing weighs restricting overseas access to China's best models while DeepSeek races to build its own chip. They also get into OpenAI offering the US government a five percent stake to ease political pressure in Washington, and the first ransomware attack run entirely by an AI agent.
Also in this episode: Alibaba bans employees from Claude Code, more than 90 percent of Claude Cowork use turns out not to be coding, Meta puts your Instagram photos into AI, wealthy families trade school for AI tutoring, Nvidia's next rack slips to 2028, and xAI becomes SpaceXAI. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Start

0:01:41 - Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say

0:08:18 - China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say

0:15:44 - Anthropic's Claude Cowork heads to the cloud as data shows 90% of sessions aren't for coding

0:24:30 - Anthropic expanding Claude Cowork to mobile and web, details here

0:32:29 - OpenAI proposes 5% stake to Trump administration to ease Washington pressure: Report

0:37:13 - The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman

0:41:17 - Scoop: Trump administration lifts restrictions on OpenAI's GPT 5.6

0:43:06 - JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack

0:46:46 - Introducing Muse Image and Muse Video

1:00:28 - Nvidia’s next-gen AI rack system delayed to 2028 on manufacturing snags, SemiAnalysis says

1:01:12 - Nvidia has lost $1 trillion in market cap and is all the way back to where it was before the AI boom

1:01:25 - A global workspace in language models

1:03:32 - Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

1:06:09 - XAI makes its rebrand to SpaceXAI complete with a new logo

1:07:29 - Tilly Norwood to Lead New Movie ‘Misaligned,’ Marking Feature Debut for AI ‘Actor’

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

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