Navigating AI Innovations and Urban Heat

This week, Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis celebrate the arrival of AI Mode for Jeff! They pick apart all of the defections taking place in AI (much of it heading right for Meta's Superintelligence lab), how AI impersonation is becoming a thing even if it isn't very successful yet, and the arrival of Perplexity's $200 per month plan that includes first dibs at their agentic Comet browser.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Podcast begins

0:01:33 - Jeff finally got his AI Mode!

0:10:55 - Circle to Search Gets AI Mode, Gaming Help Arrives, and Pixel Watch Finally Gets Gemini

0:16:51 - Apple Loses Top AI Models Executive to Meta’s Hiring Spree

0:24:16 - Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross

0:31:09 - xAI updated Grok to be more ‘politically incorrect’

0:35:21 - Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X

0:37:34 - Fake AI voice impersonating Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacts foreign ministers and US officials

0:41:18 - OpenAI tightens the screws on security to keep away prying eyes

0:46:39 - Channel 4 to offer AI-generated ads for SMEs on its streaming service

0:52:31 - How the Owner of Hidden Valley Ranch Learned to Love AI

0:57:21 - Jeff shows off Epicure for AI-generated recipes

1:00:00 - Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan

1:00:28 - Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser

1:04:44 - Excerpt from our interview with Babak Hodjat, co-founder of the tech driving Siri

1:12:57 - Nvidia Just Became the First Company to Hit a $4 Trillion Market Cap

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