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This chapter explores the launch of Perplexity's Comet Browser, emphasizing its AI-enhanced features that promise to revolutionize web browsing. The hosts discuss the broader implications of AI integration in digital tools, highlighting its potential impact on user experience.

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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