Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell start things off by chatting with Soundslice's CEO Adrian Holovaty who responds to OpenAI inventing an imaginary feature. Then its news roundup time: The Trump administration’s sweeping new AI action plan, why AI shopping assistants still struggle with trust, the future of always-on AI wearables after Amazon acquires Bee, and Netflix officially embraces generative AI in its productions.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00:00 - Podcast begins

0:01:01 - A Conversation with Adrian Holovaty, Soundslice

0:26:24 - White House Unveils Sweeping AI Action Plan to Boost Development

0:34:32 - OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers

0:39:02 - Perplexity in talks with phone makers to pre-install Comet AI mobile browser on devices

0:39:36 - AI shopping assistants have a trust problem

0:42:32 - Replit makes vibe-y promise to stop its AI agents making vibe coding disasters

0:47:38 - Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say

0:48:42 - Limitless AI

0:55:40 - OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking

0:59:23 - US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules

1:01:25 - Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time

1:06:06 - Google’s ‘Big Sleep’ Just Became the First-Ever AI to Prevent a Cyberattack

1:07:03 - Researchers from top AI labs including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic warn they may be losing the ability to understand advanced AI models

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