Howard Stern, Real Dolls, and AI-Powered Companions

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss OpenAI’s new adult chat feature in GPT-5, Nvidia’s launch of a personal AI supercomputer, and the US plan for a nuclear energy boom to power AI data centers.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Podcast begins

0:02:33 -Sam Altman Announces ChatGPT Will Roll Out Erotica For Verified Adult Users; Internet Reacts To AI Age-Gating

0:20:11 -Sam Altman says OpenAI isn’t ‘moral police of the world’ after erotica ChatGPT post blows up

0:21:43 -OpenAI forms advisory council on wellbeing and AI

0:23:40 -California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots

0:31:00 -OpenAI's BIG bet on buildings its own chips (with Broadcom)

0:35:54 -US to See $350 Billion Nuclear Boom to Power AI, Report Say

0:40:00 -Anduril’s new EagleEye MR helmet sees Palmer Luckey return to his VR roots

Jeff's Arxiv Showdown!

0:45:43 -Implications and Perceptions of Injecting Personalized Advertising into LLM Chatbots

0:47:20 -THOUSANDS OF AI AUTHORS ON THE FUTURE OF AI

0:50:47 -Artificial Intelligence Expands Scientists’ Impact but Contracts Science’s Focus

0:53:00 -Nvidia’s ‘personal AI supercomputer’ goes on sale October 15th

0:54:57 -Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort to Leave for Meta

0:56:07 -Salesforce boosts AI capabilities with global launch of Agentforce 360

0:57:57 -Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos

1:01:13 -Introducing Figure 03

1:03:28 -Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

1:04:24 -John from Ireland knows how scammers will convince people a fake video is real.

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